Hi, thin one

 DM> While Zarcy and I pondered about the implications of this new
 DM> effect, we saw the 64 pin leadless chip carrier containing the
 DM> TFT 3000 begin to metamorphose. Within ten minutes we were left
 DM> with ten 40 pin dual in line packages, within half an hour these
 DM> were replaced by one hundred I6 pin d.i.p.s, then four hundred
 DM> circuit boards containing large numbers of transistors. Just in
 DM> time, Jim the lab assistant shouted a warning and we escaped with
 DM> only minor scorch marks and bruises as the whole of Lliys labs
 DM> was transferred into a glowing mass of EF86 valves.

ROFL!!! Reminds me of the time when I was testing a valve amp I'd
built into a dummy load, and the two 6BM8s showed their stress by
setting up an oscillator with a period of about four seconds. One
would glow dimly red, then go dark, then the other would glow, then
go dark, then the first, etc.

It was the same chassis (maybe the same amp, before I upgraded it
to a pair of 6GW8s) that suddenly went silent while sitting upside
down on the table. I looked in, saw that the 47uF 50V cathode
bypass cap had a hemispherical end, and hit the floor about half a
second before it popped.

Valves were always a better spectator sport than transistors.

Cheers

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