SBC - R.I.P.?

Tom1956 · Apr 6, 2014

Nobody is mechanically challenged. I don't buy that for a minute. They're just fraidy cats. If I can do it, anybody can do it. And I hardly ever foul up the job. I don't get it fixed 100% of the time, but at least I button it back up leaving no clue I was ever in it. It's either a bad battery wire, or the switch has gone bad. One time I found where the manufacturer of a Gossen got the circuit board a little off position and it cause an itermittent that nearly drove me bonkers before I discovered. But just going slap dead is the easiest thing to find.
If I can do it, anybody can.

jerrybro · Apr 7, 2014

Tom1956 said:
Nobody is mechanically challenged. I don't buy that for a minute. They're just fraidy cats. ...

I don't know about that, I'm pretty sure the only thing my wife can hit with a hammer is me.

pentaxuser · Apr 8, 2014

jerrybro said:
I don't know about that, I'm pretty sure the only thing my wife can hit with a hammer is me.

We call that end of the pier humour in the U.K. Here's another example.

jeerybro to heckler in the audience: You seem to have a lot to say for yourself, buddy, where are you from?

Heckler: Boston

jerrybro: Nice place, Boston. We used to go there to see the mother-in-law. She lived in New York but looked better from Boston

Does this translate to U.S. humour?

pentaxuser

E. von Hoegh · Apr 8, 2014

Tom1956 said:
Nobody is mechanically challenged. I don't buy that for a minute. They're just fraidy cats. If I can do it, anybody can do it. And I hardly ever foul up the job. I don't get it fixed 100% of the time, but at least I button it back up leaving no clue I was ever in it. It's either a bad battery wire, or the switch has gone bad. One time I found where the manufacturer of a Gossen got the circuit board a little off position and it cause an itermittent that nearly drove me bonkers before I discovered. But just going slap dead is the easiest thing to find.
If I can do it, anybody can.

Sometimes the moving contact on the calibration potentiometer(s) loses contact with the resistance strip due to oxidation building up under it. Just moving it and returning it to the original position can sometimes bring things back to life.

BradleyK · Apr 9, 2014

Tom1956 said:
Nobody is mechanically challenged. I don't buy that for a minute. They're just fraidy cats. If I can do it, anybody can do it. And I hardly ever foul up the job. I don't get it fixed 100% of the time, but at least I button it back up leaving no clue I was ever in it. It's either a bad battery wire, or the switch has gone bad. One time I found where the manufacturer of a Gossen got the circuit board a little off position and it cause an itermittent that nearly drove me bonkers before I discovered. But just going slap dead is the easiest thing to find.
If I can do it, anybody can.

I beg to differ, Sir. My late father was so impressed with my mechanical aptitude that he willed my older sister his entire collection of tools (Dad was a machinist).

andrew.roos · Apr 9, 2014

On my SBC the 9V battery connector failed. It would only work if I pushed against the battery connector at a certain angle. I simply cut the old connector off and soldered a new one on, covering the joints with some heat-shrint tubing.

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paul ron · Apr 12, 2014

BradleyK said:
I beg to differ, Sir. My late father was so impressed with my mechanical aptitude that he willed my older sister his entire collection of tools (Dad was a machinist).

Hahahahaha... This says it all!

Did you get it fixed?

BradleyK · Apr 12, 2014

paul ron said:
Hahahahaha... This says it all!

Did you get it fixed?

I have a local who will be looking at one of my M6 bodies next week (lens preview issues). Matt King has suggested that he may be able to check my Gossen as well. If so, it will be in his workshop Monday afternoon. If not, it's into a bubble-wrapped box and off State-side...

Re:my mechanical inabilities: Clint Eastwood once said: "A man's got to know his limitations..." And that essential fact, sir, informs all my purchase decisions (it is why I own a BMW and a Honda...stuff I don't have to worry about fixing).

paul ron · Apr 15, 2014

Hahaha a most quoted phrase in my book. Smart move!

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