Bucket treatment

[Ralph Parker]

>Bucket treatment: Find a big bucket large enough to hold the defective
device,
>fill the bucket with water, put the device in twice, take it out once

I've had a considerable amount of satisfaction using a sledgehammer.

VE7XF

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[Phil Wheeler-2]

Gives new meaning to the term "Bucket List" :-)

In B.C. perhaps that's a Sledgehammer List!

73, Phil W7OX

On 9/27/15 1:22 PM, Ralph Parker wrote:
>> Bucket treatment: Find a big bucket large enough to hold the defective
> device,
>> fill the bucket with water, put the device in twice, take it out once
> I've had a considerable amount of satisfaction using a sledgehammer.
>
> VE7XF

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[Jim Brown-10]

On Sun,9/27/2015 1:22 PM, Ralph Parker wrote:
> I've had a considerable amount of satisfaction using a sledgehammer.

:)

Jim
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[Al Gulseth-2]

Unfortunately, not a good idea. Most currently in use computer monitors and
TVs, for example, have CCFL (cold cathode fluorescent light) backlights, thus
the same hazardous materials issue as was mentioned regarding CFLs.

We've gone from lead as a hazardous material in CRT monitors to mercury in LCD
panels. I'm not sure if we're making progress or not :-(

73, Al

On Sun September 27 2015 3:22:26 pm Ralph Parker wrote:

> >Bucket treatment: Find a big bucket large enough to hold the defective
>
> device,
>
> >fill the bucket with water, put the device in twice, take it out once
>
> I've had a considerable amount of satisfaction using a sledgehammer.
>
> VE7XF
>
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[Ben Hall-2]

> I've had a considerable amount of satisfaction using a sledgehammer.

When we first moved into this house, cash was tight, so I bought *the
cheapest* gas-powered weed-eater I could find.

Worked fine for about three years, then it started running poorly.  No
matter what I did, plugs, carb cleaning, fresh gas, etc., it ran poorly
until one day it kept quitting.

Finally got so pissed off that I grabbed it by the cutter end and swung
it over my head into the driveway, bashing it into bits multiple times.
  :)  VERY stress relieving.

Replaced it with a Husqvarna.  While not Elecraft quality, it's very,
very nice and makes weed-eating almost fun.

thanks and 73,
ben, kd5byb

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[Charlie T, K3ICH]

Just curious, did you ever clean out the little
screen in the muffler called the "spark arrester"?

I have "fixed" a number of small heavily used 2
cycle powered devices by doing just that.  Most
would barely run and full throttle acted like the
choke was on.

73, Charlie k3ICH



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> I've had a considerable amount of satisfaction
using a sledgehammer.

When we first moved into this house, cash was
tight, so I bought *the
cheapest* gas-powered weed-eater I could find.

Worked fine for about three years, then it started
running poorly.  No matter what I did, plugs, carb
cleaning, fresh gas, etc., it ran poorly until one
day it kept quitting.

Finally got so pissed off that I grabbed it by the
cutter end and swung it over my head into the
driveway, bashing it into bits multiple times.
  :)  VERY stress relieving.

Replaced it with a Husqvarna.  While not Elecraft
quality, it's very, very nice and makes
weed-eating almost fun.

thanks and 73,
ben, kd5byb

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