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Re: nasa-celebrates-successful-mars-landing

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From: Michael A. Terrell
Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2012 23:22
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Jim Yanik wrote:
> 
> Heh,testing of the pyros reminds me of a "tech" at TEK-Indianapolis that
> had a scope in for repair that blew it's line fuse,and he went and got all
> the fuses from bench stock,and one by one,put them in and each time tried
> powering up the scope,never first finding where the excess load was,or
> using a Variac to bring up the power slowly and measuing the DC supplies.
> 
> Only after blowing ALL the fuses in stock of that value did he ask another
> tech what he should do....
> 
> He never did work out as a repair tech. He didn't want to learn.
> But he was sure good at avoiding work.


   Was that Sloman or Maynard? ;-)
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