26 May
2004
26 May
'04
10:20 a.m.
connectors and gender menders. But I got to wondering
what is the strangest
thing that anyone has ever found inside a computer or similar piece of
electronics gear.
Joe
1/2 a dead rat in a big old dot-matrix printer. Well, actually it was a
whole rat, but 1/2 was ground up really bad in the gear mechanisms and you
couldn't really tell what it was anymore.
(This was found as a result of a "my printer's not working!" complaint).
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26 May
26 May
10:09 a.m.
New subject: What's the weirdest thing that you've ever found inside a co
Found big pile of melted wax of different shades dripped from above
INSIDE a old RCA TV, there's no way to drip from above because of no
vents or clogged vents with wax. Not merely loose, just dripped
right on the bottom chassis had to pry wax piles off.
Was from prison. I wonder.
(1) Most RCA TVs even 20" has plenty of flat spaces besides the
chassis.
Cheers,
Wizard
1. working for a TV shop that how I come across this oddest
thing.
10:26 a.m.
New subject: What's the weirdest thing that you've ever found inside acomputer?
At 07:20 PM 5/26/04 +0000, Damien wrote:
Phew! Probably easily located by the smell!
Joe
connectors and
gender menders. But I got to wondering what is the strangest
thing that anyone has ever found inside a computer or similar piece of
electronics gear.
Joe
1/2 a dead rat in a big old dot-matrix printer. Well, actually it was a
whole rat, but 1/2 was ground up really bad in the gear mechanisms and you
couldn't really tell what it was anymore.
(This was found as a result of a "my printer's not working!" complaint).
10:25 a.m.
New subject: What's the weirdest thing that you've ever found inside
And thusly Joe R. spake:
At 07:20 PM 5/26/04 +0000, Damien wrote:
Phew! Probably easily located by the smell!
I wonder if there was a lot of squeaking going on just before the printer
stopped working...
Cheers,
Bryan Pope
connectors
and gender menders. But I got to wondering what is the strangest
thing that anyone has ever found inside a computer or similar piece of
electronics gear.
Joe
1/2 a dead rat in a big old dot-matrix printer. Well, actually it was a
whole rat, but 1/2 was ground up really bad in the gear mechanisms and you
couldn't really tell what it was anymore.
(This was found as a result of a "my printer's not working!" complaint).
10:35 a.m.
New subject: What's the weirdest thing that you've ever found inside a computer?
connectors and
gender menders. But I got to wondering what is the strangest
thing that anyone has ever found inside a computer or similar piece of
electronics gear.
Joe
1/2 a dead rat in a big old dot-matrix printer. Well, actually it
was a whole rat, but 1/2 was ground up really bad in the gear
mechanisms and you couldn't really tell what it was anymore.
(This was found as a result of a "my printer's not working!" complaint).
10:48 a.m.
On Wed, 2004-05-26 at 15:35, Zane H. Healy wrote:
Thankfully it was one of my coworkers that found it,
but would a sea
snake in the cooling system for a 400Hz frequency converter count?
Zane
How about a hermit crab in and amongst the brush rigging of a large DC
motor on a submarine?
<Sea Story>
Then there was the time when we took a deep dive angle and the coffee
pot flew out of the maker, smashing itself to bits against the
electrical switchboards. When the engine room watch reported this I
checked the ground detector and got to report that there were "Coffee
grounds on the 5S bus"
</Sea Story>
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