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Subject: Re: electronics 'wearing out'
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Date: Sun, 16-Jun-85 20:32:05 EDT
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[Eat this, line eater!]


Funny, no one has mentioned the problems that electronic equipment is
heir to even if there isn't a SINGLE moving part!

What about heat damage?

(especially if the components are high-heat-dissapating power transistors
and the like)?

What about oxidation of exposed metal surfaces (like connector leads)?

Or cold solder joints?

Leaky capacitors?  

Components induced to physically vibrate at the frequency of whatever
is flowing through them?  (This one's seen most often in parts that are
exposed to 60Hz, as in the power supply)

Incandescent bulbs that are SOLDERED in place? (Although that is a relatively
mild problem)

The list could go on and on....


John J. Francini

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