In the spirit of the thread:
Wierdest thing found in an item of electronics:
While trying to find a Kodak Retina possibly lost off
the back
Why would you want to find one of those? It is my opinion, based on
dismantling and repairing many cameras, that Kodak have never made a
decent camera. Not one! (and yes, I've worked on Retinas, Retinettes, and
Retina Reflexes).
of the truck headed for the dump, I went to said dump
and dug
around for a while. Vacuum tubes. Vacuum tubes plus charcoal
fires plus time equals shriveled up raisinlike vacuum tubes. Wierd.
Presumably the heat of the fire softened the glass and atmospheric
pressure caused it to collapse against the vacuum inside.
-tony