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macgyver655
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| Posted: Mon May 31, 2010 10:34 pm Post subject: Things you see when repairing peoples stuff. |
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Receiver has severe sound distortion. Has radio station output even when not locked on a channel. That's as far as I tested prior to cover removal.
And here we have it. Why you shouldn't put a candle on your equipment....... LOL. At least it smells purdy in there.....
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AnalogRocks
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How you gonna clean that?
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JustGreg
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Looks like what my daughter did to my brandy new HiFi DVD player when she was little and jammed her PB&J sammich in the slot. 
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HogPilot
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I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that it wasn't a male that put the candle on top of that receiver and lit it...
My wife has the standard female obsession with having candles everywhere, and thank God she understands that candles are okay anywhere in the house except for on top of or around any electronics. Of course it's a completely different discussion when she wants to light one!
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JustGreg
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| HogPilot wrote: | I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that it wasn't a male that put the candle on top of that receiver and lit it...
My wife has the standard female obsession with having candles everywhere, and thank God she understands that candles are okay anywhere in the house except for on top of or around any electronics. Of course it's a completely different discussion when she wants to light one! |
Same deal here. The wife is alot better than she used to be. She plopped a candle on a BRAND NEW coffee table a few years back and when the candle got to the bottom it cracked the glass container it came in and burned a big assed mark in the finish. 
She still lights bunches of them but places them better. Every time I come home and there's a billion candles going I think I'm going to get lucky. BEH! Turns out most of the time she's just trying to get rid of older candles so she buy new ones.
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LOTREE
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I decided to hide a plastic wrench in my Dad's Sears Betavision when I was a kid for my brother to find. Suffice it to say I got in trouble when it got stuck, lol.
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macgyver655
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| LOTREE wrote: | I decided to hide a plastic wrench in my Dad's Sears Betavision when I was a kid for my brother to find. Suffice it to say I got in trouble when it got stuck, lol.
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Lol, sounds minor but back then he probably paid between 500 and 1000 bucks for it. I remember when I bought my first VCR. Paid just over 400.
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macgyver655
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| AnalogRocks wrote: | | How you gonna clean that? |
Well I wasn't going to spend to much time on this as it doesn't have much value but I gave it a shot. I believe I got it all removed but the preamp section appears to be full on. No volume or tone selections so something must of got shorted. Off to the shelf for now.
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Curt Palme
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I can't see how the wax affected anything. After all, wax was used to seal all sorts of things. Bet the problem is unrelated. And that's NOT the Pioneer receiver I sent you. 
I've seen lots of crap like that as well. Worst one was the 20" Zenith TV where the cat slept on top of the set, and had worn off the 'wood' finish on the plastic top. One fateful day Kitty decided to puke into the back of the set. The cat was fine, the set was not. This was a set that had the convergence circuits on a PC board around the neck of the tube, and there were some decent voltages around the H convergence section. The cat puke hit the H section, ignited part of the board which then heated the cat puke. Some 30 years later, I still remember how that smelled as I had to repair it. The repair was minor, the smell was not. 
and how's your breakfast NOW? 
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macgyver655
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| Curt Palme wrote: | I can't see how the wax affected anything. After all, wax was used to seal all sorts of things. Bet the problem is unrelated. And that's NOT the Pioneer receiver I sent you.
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Lol, no its not that Pioneer. I'm going to try to spend some time on that one today.
I cant say without a doubt it was the wax but when it is in its liquid form and may have different conduction properties. But who knows. Maybe when she (or who ever) blew out the candle their spit flew through the grill and hit the board, lol.
Hows that for your breakfast, LOL.
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