I'm so stupid... Was: Head Cleaners

From: Teo Zenios <teoz_at_neo.rr.com>
Date: Fri Jul 2 15:48:09 2004

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From: "Joe R." <rigdonj_at_cfl.rr.com>
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Sent: Friday, July 02, 2004 2:59 PM
Subject: RE: I'm so stupid... Was: Head Cleaners


> At 06:00 PM 7/2/04 +0100, you wrote:
> >
> >
> >Eventually we realised the noise we could just hear over the somewhat
> >loud Metallica Black album was the rear screen wiper swishing back and
> >forth across a dry screen.
>
> About 15 years ago I bought a really beat up 1962 Mercedes Benz 190SL
> roadster to restore. After I got it home I was checking everything out and
> I turned on the radio to see if it worked. Nothing, so I turned it off and
> added it to the list of things to fix. Later in the middle of the night I
> woke up and realized that the radio was so old that it probably used
vacuum
> tubes instead of transistors and probably needed to warm up before it
would
> work. It bothered me so much that I got up at 2 AM and went outside to try
> it. Sure enough it was fine after it warmed up for about 30 seconds. My
> only excuse is that I hadn't used a vacuum tube car radio since I was in
> about 3rd grade!
>
> Joe
>

A car radio with tubes, man you must be old. I was into car stereos during
the 80's audio explosion and seen a few crazy things go on. Ever see what
happens when you put the fuse at the AMP side instead of the battery side
and the cable shorts out in an ungrometed hole through sheetmetal? All I can
say is the guy was lucky the cable was loose or he would have burned the
whole car down instead of just smoking a cable.
Received on Fri Jul 02 2004 - 15:48:09 BST