The father of a friend of mine had a very nice, very expensive tube amp
from about 1970. After thirty years of it laying in his closet,
he sold it on Ebay. Turns out a cat had peed all over the tubes,
and when he'd turned it back on to test it he'd not left it on long
enough for the smell to get bad (he assumed that what he had smelled
was burning dust). So now the guy that bought it on Ebay's
pissed, I don't know how it got resolved in the end... but the story
makes me grin every time I think about it.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/18/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Senso</b> <<a href="mailto:senso@dds.nl">senso@dds.nl</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<snip><br>>It turned out that my parent's crazy cat had peed into<br>>the edge of the keyboard, and the urine was corroding traces from the<br>>board.<br><snip><br>>That cat has caused me a lot of trouble, I'm still finding damage to
<br>>repair.<br><br>All she needs is some toilet training. Sprinkle some catnip around<br>the power supply to show her the way. ;-)<br><br>Senso<br><br>--<br><br>----------------------------------------------------------------
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