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Hi
This may be a little off the subject but I spent my working life in electronic repairing and I saw some prime examples of equipment being put out of action by simple faults that became catastrophes.
The two best were these.
Syptom: Could not tune the aerial! ( I guessed what was wrong but ----)
When I got there the transmiter was literally in pieces on the floor. I spent all day putting it back together. I did fix a few minor faults probably induced in the disassembly. When I got the equipment all back together I turned it on and tested it. Yes the aerial tuner still had the same problem.
I went to the Main distribution fuse board and replaced the "C" phase fuse. The problem was fixed.
The second was just the syptom: The radio has stopped working (Marine RT on a Game fishing Boat. I believe the boat was part owned by Lee Marvin who I met on a later job).
The boat was at Lizard Island so we had to charter a plane to get there.
I fixed the fault in a few minutes. Yes a blown fuse again. Too late to return to Cairns in the dark so we stayed the night on the mother ship, boy what a feast! and returned the next day. The whole exercise must have cost twice the value of the Radio transceiver.
Baz
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