-> Here, we are rather hight in altitude, so cooking anything takes longer unless
-> we use a pressure cooker. 
   
Tell me about it, my brother lives in Denver.

-> Presto... What sort of release valve (Suspecting this
-> is what you speak of.) do they use? Dad has one that uses a bobbling weight. I
-> always though that was a pretty foolproof way to do it.

It has a bobbling weight but that can fail or the passage get plugged,
however my Presto has this stupid little plastic or rubber grommet
with a little pop up indicator as backup.
The grommet would fail before the pressure cooker could breach
explosively. A nice simple fail safe.

->  WC> Same here, standing preferable to sitting but neither is much
->  WC> fun.

-> ...And how many times do you have to refuse an offer of a seat? If I take a
-> seat, I have to at least take the weight on my left elbow, so that makes
-> anything less than a love-seat trying. Few tend to "Get it."

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

->  ->  WC> Bet I'm harder to fit than you, size 15's 
->  -> You'd have to custom order then?

->  WC> Used to buy from King Size Corp in Brockton Mass but now
->  WC> they're available in many shops.
->  WC> Got the last two pair at Payless.

-> What a relief for you, then. They would tease a fellow in my home-town that he
-> was size 13 in grade 9. His nickname was "Finish" as they
finished the footwear
-> lines at size thirteen, IMS.     

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

->  ->  ->  WC> Saw a B&W LASER printer somewhere for 200 new.

->  WC> I think it's a real printer that does postscript, if it does
->  WC> that it'll do DOS and Linux.

-> Last time the LED was warming up here, it taxed the UPS so much it overheated
-> the gel-cell. Have to pull out an extension cord next time I wire it up. The
-> lit tells me not to plug a laser/LED printer into a UPS of  model, but I never did use a UPS for them at all.

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

->  -> Well, we tend to owe a great thanks to Bill Gates
->  -> really. If it wasn't for the
->  -> Blue Screen of Death, we might NEVER upgrade. [-;

->  WC> Seen the last of that, thanks Linus T.

-> Just had another Windows box go down on me. Funny thing is, I was slating it to
-> go to a dual-boot, and had just come home with two copies of Fedora to do it
-> with. Coincidence... I say MS detected the proximity of a *NIX, and scrambled
-> the FAT! 

->  -> Hitachi. The other is an NEC.

->  WC> Hitachi is well made, I'll spare you my views on NEC.

-> Ya, the "Multi-Sync" was all the rage off the shelf, but
try to fix one... One

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

-> Multi-Sync here is suffering from only a loose connection at the plug end, the
-> next is a real quandary as to why the V. refresh is outa step, and the 21"
-> seems fine. The 21" is an older one though, so I suspect it'll
be an easier
-> troubleshoot to reverse engineer.       

->  WC> Hit, might be worth the effort to remove the case and see if
->  WC> the foam pad on the back of the circuit board mounted CRT
->  WC> socket is distorting the shield. ( caused lethal shorts)
->  WC> I lost one that way but cut the pad in half on the second
->  WC> saving it. You'll need a long reach phillips screw driver.

-> Never had any yoke problems to date. You say that the High Tension was arching
-> to the case? That could be lethal, 
   
No it was the color gun driver transistors to an RF shield.
Got so hot it blackened and discolored the pins on the CRT.
Could have fixed it if the pins hadn't accompanied the socket
removing it from the CRT :-(
About three pins came loose.

_> no? (Oh, I just re-read the above.) But
-> isn't it the red wire directly attached to the tube, with the rubber boot? Just
-> what I need, another thing to be paranoid about. 

The H.V. anode lead.
Yeah they can be lethal for days in a low humidity environment
even unplugged.
I had an insulated current limited discharge wand for them
to slip under the insulating cap.
Then squeeze the connector together to remove.

-> The cases: I've found quite the difference between vintages. (I
-> suspect that's
-> what the long Phillips would be for?) As the age of the machine approaches the
-> current, the disassembly gets more difficult exponentially.

All my monitors require long reach screw drivers to remove the cases. 
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