WAYNE CHIRNSIDE wrote to JAMES BRADLEY, "Tap tap tap..."

 WC> Tell me about it, my brother lives in Denver.

He would know then.  Pretty dry there too, IMS. We have desert East of us,
*and* South of us. Years ago, we too used to be a desert. We have to really try
*hard* to get anything to rot 'round here.

 -> Presto... What sort of release valve (Suspecting this

 WC> It has a bobbling weight but that can fail or the passage get
 WC> plugged, however my Presto has this stupid little plastic or
 WC> rubber grommet with a little pop up indicator as backup.

Same on dads'. I should check if his is a Presto.
 WC> The grommet would fail before the pressure cooker could breach
 WC> explosively. A nice simple fail safe.

D'ya ever see a can of beans boil with a hole in it? I can't imagine anything
being hard enough, or precise enough in size to plug up a bobble. Well, nothing
that would be edible. I'd suspect one would have to try pretty hard, maybe
inverting a pot full of bone joints or marbles/ball-berrings...

 WC> I use my hands on the seat or elbow on a seat back on the bus,
 WC> most often both.
 WC> Got to get dog food and people food today so it's gonna be a
 WC> lousy day.

I'd like to say, "Be strong Brother." but I know that doesn't
always cut it. I
visited the library on Tues. and attended a meeting on Wed., both chauffeured.
Fri 7pm I woke up feeling OK! I have reason to celebrate! My sister understands
why I won't go to her house on Sat. but others don't get it.

 ->  ->  WC> Bet I'm harder to fit than you, size 15's 

 WC> If the temperature was just right after a snow fall, cold snow,
 WC> near thaw than a refreeze the snow would crust and I could ski
 WC> quite a distance on hills with nothing more than my shoes.
 WC> I was 6'6" out of H.S.

I can c'boy boot ski too! Well, I used to. I used it once when a bully tried to
start with me.  Lucky for him he didn't follow, as I had some practise
under my belt, and a bit of hill ahead of me.

 -> Last time the LED was warming up here, it taxed the UPS
 -> so much it overheated the gel-cell.

 WC> Gel cell got a bulge now? That's the kiss of death.

Ya... The darned thing got so big, I had to pry it out of the device! I was
slappin' on the hood, and workin' the X-Acto up the sides... Not as bad as the
two cells that cracked their cases. I ran 'em 'til there was no runnin'em
any more!  I was still expecting the UPSes to provide filtering without
cells. All three APCs shut down shop, and now I have no idea if they popped
a thermistor too. I've heard they can be weak in that department.
 
 -> Ya, the "Multi-Sync" was all the rage off the shelf, but
 -> try to fix one... One

 WC> The very old ones are VERY good, the newer ones... well the
 WC> less said the better.

[-; 

 WC> No it was the color gun driver transistors to an RF shield.
 WC> Got so hot it blackened and discolored the pins on the CRT.
 WC> Could have fixed it if the pins hadn't accompanied the socket
 WC> removing it from the CRT :-(
 WC> About three pins came loose.

Oh... That would have been so hot as to liquefy the glass!

 WC> The H.V. anode lead.
 WC> Yeah they can be lethal for days in a low humidity environment
 WC> even unplugged.

Present! 
 -> machine approaches the
 -> current, the disassembly gets more difficult exponentially.

 WC> All my monitors require long reach screw drivers to remove the
 WC> cases. --- Platinum Xpress/Win/WINServer v3.0pr5

I don't want to mention the trick involved in opening up the NEC. What a DOG!
...Er, should I call it a bitch? ...Er, I don't want to insult a canine!!!


... That was Zen. This is Tao.
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Hey... Just a PS if I may. (Like you could stop me. ;-)

I just read the latest in your JH debacle. You know he is just trying to cover
his butt, right? I too know the "You must be paranoid."
insinuation, so I can't
be partial on that one, but little does *anyone* know the
"stuff".we have to
deal with, specifically regarding this 'hobby.'

I know, "If he'd only shut up." /-:

--- Maximus 3.01