Hardware trouble? Me? Or ...??

[Tim]

On Sat, 2008-08-09 at 21:42 +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> They can also fail from silly things that happen by accident often
> un-noticed. I zapped one a few months ago by the fine and wonderful
> technique of dropping a small screw into it.

Ah yes, the "extra screw"...  ;-)  Which is usually better than one less
screw, but not if it's one less because it's fallen into the chassis.

I remember having to turn a huge Umatic VCR upside down and shake it to
get a screw out that fell somewhere into the middle of it that I
couldn't see.  Not an easy task, they're very big and heavy.

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