9 Oct
2007
9 Oct
'07
2:21 a.m.
On 9 Oct 2007 at 8:26, Gordon JC Pearce wrote:
"Vibrate the machine to cause the failure"
?
I can just picture the CE and his able assistant...
"Get me the IBM Special Tool FBH-4 from the van, will you?"
Hmmm. I remember that Viking Labs had a pretty big shaker table.
Bolt that 3741 to one of those and crank it up to, oh, about 11G's
sinusoidal. I guarantee you'll find a fault.
Destructive testing can be lots of fun. :)
If I read the article correctly, the result of the effort described
was that a bunch of caps were bad; there were some PC trace-protected
fuses; and the whole mess went back into mothballs not working.
Sigh.
Cheers,
Chuck