16 Dec
2009
16 Dec
'09
12:15 p.m.
On Tuesday 15 December 2009, Tony Duell wrote:
The point is that you don't need to, you can just pitch it and grab
another from a discarded PC in a local bin. ;)
You might, but you darn well know I don't. Heck, I repaired a
_transistor_ [1] the other day. And didn't we have athread on repairing
light bulbs the other week?
[1] No, I don;'t mean a transistorised radio (which was called a
'transistor' by some people over hear yeras ago). I mean a transsitor, a
single component. It was a 2SB705 (no, don't pretend you've heard of it),
the (PNP) pass transistor in the 24V suppy in am Epson printer. It's
bolted to a heatsing in said printer and connected to the logic board by
a 3-wire cable and cocket. Anmyway, due ot carelessness (mine ;-(), all 3
pins of the transistor fell off. I couldn't find a source of a
replacement, so I cafefuilly filed away the edge of the package to expose
the remains of the pins and soldered them back on. Amazingly it worked.
-tony
It also
has a bog-standard IDE DVD transport, unlike less expensive
For which you don't get service data, presumably.