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From: ehsjr on 21 Dec 2009 12:30 Michael A. Terrell wrote: > Jim Thompson wrote: > >>On Sun, 20 Dec 2009 17:24:22 -0800, Joerg <invalid(a)invalid.invalid> >>wrote: >> >> >>>D from BC wrote: >>> >>>>On Fri, 18 Dec 2009 00:05:03 -0800 (PST), Bill Sloman >>>><bill.sloman(a)ieee.org> wrote: >>>> >> >>[auto-snip] >> >>>>Figures that I get jammed when the electronics take me into the >>>>semiconductor thermal physics. >>>>As soon I find myself crossing into another field of expertise, that's >>>>when the trouble begins. >>>> >>> >>>That's pretty much what my wife said after she found out that I had used >>>silver wire and solder to put a button back onto a shirt :-) >> >>Just get a "Buttoneer" and then you can play engineer and attach >>buttons better than sewing them on ;-) > > > > He can't blow up any buttons that way. > > Buttons without sound effects!!? Not in Joerg's world! Ed
From: Michael A. Terrell on 21 Dec 2009 20:56 Joerg wrote: > > Michael A. Terrell wrote: > > Jim Thompson wrote: > >> On Sun, 20 Dec 2009 17:24:22 -0800, Joerg <invalid(a)invalid.invalid> > >> wrote: > >> > >>> D from BC wrote: > >>>> On Fri, 18 Dec 2009 00:05:03 -0800 (PST), Bill Sloman > >>>> <bill.sloman(a)ieee.org> wrote: > >>>> > >> [auto-snip] > >>>> Figures that I get jammed when the electronics take me into the > >>>> semiconductor thermal physics. > >>>> As soon I find myself crossing into another field of expertise, that's > >>>> when the trouble begins. > >>>> > >>> That's pretty much what my wife said after she found out that I had used > >>> silver wire and solder to put a button back onto a shirt :-) > >> Just get a "Buttoneer" and then you can play engineer and attach > >> buttons better than sewing them on ;-) > > > > > > He can't blow up any buttons that way. > > > > That depends entirely upon the consumption of marzipan, pound cake, > cheese cake, stollen and all sorts of other goodies. Comes a point where > the button flies right off the shirt again upon a wee stretch :-) That's just popping a button. Where are the flames & shrapnel? -- Offworld checks no longer accepted!
From: Joerg on 21 Dec 2009 21:10
Michael A. Terrell wrote: > Joerg wrote: >> Michael A. Terrell wrote: >>> Jim Thompson wrote: >>>> On Sun, 20 Dec 2009 17:24:22 -0800, Joerg <invalid(a)invalid.invalid> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> D from BC wrote: >>>>>> On Fri, 18 Dec 2009 00:05:03 -0800 (PST), Bill Sloman >>>>>> <bill.sloman(a)ieee.org> wrote: >>>>>> >>>> [auto-snip] >>>>>> Figures that I get jammed when the electronics take me into the >>>>>> semiconductor thermal physics. >>>>>> As soon I find myself crossing into another field of expertise, that's >>>>>> when the trouble begins. >>>>>> >>>>> That's pretty much what my wife said after she found out that I had used >>>>> silver wire and solder to put a button back onto a shirt :-) >>>> Just get a "Buttoneer" and then you can play engineer and attach >>>> buttons better than sewing them on ;-) >>> >>> He can't blow up any buttons that way. >>> >> That depends entirely upon the consumption of marzipan, pound cake, >> cheese cake, stollen and all sorts of other goodies. Comes a point where >> the button flies right off the shirt again upon a wee stretch :-) > > > That's just popping a button. Where are the flames & shrapnel? > That comes when the button and the piece of silver wire lands in the shortwave power amp that I used to sometimes run "open cockpit" ... zzzt .... *PHOOMP* But it was always other stuff that did that. The loudest bang was an electrolytic, back when I was a kid and didn't have the foggiest about ripple current limits and stuff. Took off and made a crater in the ceiling plaster, then upon return from its brief orbit a smolder hole in the carpet. -- Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.com/ "gmail" domain blocked because of excessive spam. Use another domain or send PM. |