[sdiy] [SDIY] RE: Feline synthesis problems

[Steven Downhill]

Hi all,

As some of you are aware my Dad was a TV and Video service engineer for
around 25 years.
In his time he found many foreign bodies and strange and wonderful 'liquids'
of the human and animal variety in things he was repairing.
I always remember once that I went to visit him in the workshop one Saturday
as he was about to start repairing a customers dead VCR.
He lifted the lid off it and proceeded to unscrew one of the PCBs that was
lying flat on top of another one.
On removing the top PCB we discovered neatly sandwidged inbetween them a
chip.
Not uncommon you may think to find in an electrical appliance but this was
not of the semiconductor variety.
No this was a large deep fat fried chip of the Maris Piper variety (no
doubt) complete with salt and vinegar dressing.
To this day we still aren't sure how it got there however the guy who'd
brought it in had taken it to another service centre prior to where my dad
was working.

Oh and while I'm on the chip fat lines of thought...
I once pulled a 303 off a carboot sale for £25 that had also been partially
immersed in beef dripping or some other animal fat substance. 
Needless to say after a good clean it doesn't look too bad although some of
the CMOS chips need replacing as they're corroded.

Over and out....

Regards
Steven


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