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From: larry@kitty.UUCP (Larry Lippman)
Newsgroups: net.rumor
Subject: Re: Catastrophic failures
Message-ID: <899@kitty.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 22-Mar-86 10:51:19 EST
Article-I.D.: kitty.899
Posted: Sat Mar 22 10:51:19 1986
Date-Received: Tue, 25-Mar-86 03:14:38 EST
References: <2019@gondor.UUCP> <15400002@ti-csl> <2040@gondor.UUCP>
Organization: Recognition Research Corp., Clarence, NY
Lines: 25
Summary: Sometimes that ain't so funny...

In article <2040@gondor.UUCP>, okunewck@gondor.UUCP (Philip E. OKunewick) writes:
> ...
> Smoked components can be fun, though - especially when you didn't cause
> them.  We had numerous calls from customers screaming "OUR MACHINE IS
> ON FIRE!", when in reality it was just a little bitty thing pouring out
> smoke.  (They CAN fill a room with smoke, though.)  Then you get to walk
> in all cool and collected in the midst of a "crisis".
> 
> We also had an occasional gag where, when one tech reassembled a repaired
> power supply and turned on the power, (probability of repeat failure = high)
> another standing behind him would clap his hands once.  This usually
> scared the bejabbers out of 'em.

	If you have ever seen a tantalum capacitor (sintered plug style)
explode, with the tantalum plug shooting across the room like a bullet, this
gag would not be so funny.  I had this happen once, and it was not a pleasant
experience, considering that I could have been in the "line of fire"; it
sounded just like a .22 going off.

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