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* Furby repair - 3 messages, 3 authors
http://groups.google.com/group/sci.electronics.repair/t/52327fce64c5efb2?hl=en
* Two phases or not? - 1 messages, 1 author
http://groups.google.com/group/sci.electronics.repair/t/0a29a801d6e01e9e?hl=en

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TOPIC: Furby repair
http://groups.google.com/group/sci.electronics.repair/t/52327fce64c5efb2?hl=en
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== 1 of 3 ==
Date: Tues, Jan 25 2011 11:05 pm
From: Fred

Fred <nobody@home.com> wrote in
news:Xns9E7914BC8AA73nobodyhomecom@74.209.131.13:

> (Service hint - Mommy does NOT know what batteries in the drawer are
> dead and which ones are good, even though she thinks they are "new".)
>
>

Additional service hint - Furby's skin comes off like a t-shirt once you
cut the tywrap from around his bottom groove. Don't forget to replace his
tywrap upon successful completion because "we don't want anyone to see him
naked."....her words...(c;]

== 2 of 3 ==
Date: Wed, Jan 26 2011 12:09 am
From: D Yuniskis

On 1/26/2011 12:01 AM, Fred wrote:
> If you think you're a real technician, just wait until a little girl
> brings you her dead Furby she loves and begs you to resurrect him/her/it.
>
> 30 years of military and civilian electronics repair experience is no
> match for a dead Furby.

The old "Worlds of Wonder" animated toys (Teddy Ruxpin, Snoopy, Goofy,
Mickey Mouse, etc.) make Furby's look like a walk in the park. While
fixing them is possible, doing so in a cosmetically acceptable way
is the tough part!

(I "collect" them and "repurpose" them which means "guts transplants")

== 3 of 3 ==
Date: Wed, Jan 26 2011 12:41 am
From: "Wild_Bill"

Good on ya, and thanks for sharing that story, nicely done.

BTW, DeoxIt products by Caig Labs (even available at that Shack store) are
the ideal products for most of the low voltage switch contacts that anyone
is likely to encounter.

I prefer no to flood switching devices, but instead, apply the DeoxIT only
to the contacts when possible.
I transfer spray DeoxIt into small poly bottles that have "one drop" tips
(such as eye drops/Visine) then fit the tip with a needle (sharp point into
the bottle, not exposed) to use as a precise applicator. After
drilling/making a tiny hole in the hard cap, it can be installed for a
little more needle-tip stability.

Anglers may be familiar with small needle-tipped bottles that are used to
inject air into nightcrawlers to make them float/not drop to the bottom. The
tips are sharp, but were easily pulled out and inserted back into the bottle
tip with sharp point inward.

--
Cheers,
WB
.............

"Fred" <nobody@home.com> wrote in message
news:Xns9E7914BC8AA73nobodyhomecom@74.209.131.13...
> If you think you're a real technician, just wait until a little girl
> brings you her dead Furby she loves and begs you to resurrect him/her/it.
>
> 30 years of military and civilian electronics repair experience is no
> match for a dead Furby.
>
> After considerable research into Furby electro-mechanics, I discovered an
> intermittent limit switch in the flambastic transwobulator had sent
> negative vibrations to the transwobulator's flabillitator in such a way
> that further transwobulation was impossible as it put the transwobulator
> into a state very simular to a human coma.
>
> A couple of strokes of my relay contact burnisher and a tiny squirt of
> magic WD-40 brought Furby back from the grave, much to the delight of his
> owner, who now thinks I have more magic powers than any religious leader
> in the Universe....(c;]
>
> I'm terrified more dead Furbys will materialize at the hands of crying
> little girls who are born to wrap 65 year old electronics technicians
> around their little fingers......Failure is not an option!
>
> Absolutely nothing I ever repaired, calibrated or overhauled has been
> anywhere near as rewarding at that dead Furby.
>
> (Service hint - Mommy does NOT know what batteries in the drawer are dead
> and which ones are good, even though she thinks they are "new".)

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TOPIC: Two phases or not?
http://groups.google.com/group/sci.electronics.repair/t/0a29a801d6e01e9e?hl=en
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Tues, Jan 25 2011 11:33 pm
From: "Michael Kennedy"

>
> "David Nebenzahl" <nobody@but.us.chickens> wrote in message
> news:4d3e4a7b$0$21367$822641b3@news.adtechcomputers.com...
>>
>> Well, it really shouldn't be like that. I mean, look, we're discussing a
>> well-known, measurable phenomenon. The output of the center-tapped
>> transformer can be demonstrated to supply two separate and distinct
>> phases. Hell, hook up two 'scopes and see what they show.
>>
>> It's just that the 'lectric-heads--the lunks who install distribution
>> panels and such--won't let us *call* it "2-phase" for several dubious
>> reasons. Doesn't change the fact that it IS two-phase power. That's what
>> I'm getting at. I'm not trying to force anyone to change their
>> terminology or give up their superstitious beliefs; I know that that's
>> futile.
>>
>>
>

"Wild_Bill" <wb_wildbill@XSPAMyahoo.com> wrote in message
news:F1E%o.415936$zE6.360104@en-nntp-03.dc1.easynews.com...
> You're free to call it whatever you like.. and everyone that hears you
> call single-phase items 2-phase instead, is free to find humor in it, or
> suspect that you're uninformed, or lesser of you (without giving you any
> indications).
> Kinda like referring to an item with a perfectly practical/widely familar
> name "a thingy", or a (something) thingy.
>
> Superstitious would be applicable in the early years of the last century
> when folks actually believed that distributed electricity was "fire on a
> wire".
> It was a mysterious power to be feared by many folks in backwoods/mountain
> places in Appalachia for a significant portion of last century, and that
> same term can be heard in documentary films of that area of the country.
>
> Think what you like, but if you present yourself as being wiser or more
> reasonable wrt the subject, it's essentially just trolling.. and since you
> study proper usenet protocol, you know that's the equivalent to numerous
> simultaneously performed deadly sins.
>
> It's likely no one gives a FRA what you prefer to call single-phase,
> however, many usenet folks will likely continue to attempt to correct you
> at your use of the term 2-phase, primarily because it's not applicable to
> the subject matter.. and just because 2-phase power is essentially
> non-existent.
>
> As I suggested in my first reply in this thread.. essentially debated to
> hell'n back, and still, there are still those defending the use of the
> term 2-phase.
>
> --
> Cheers,
> WB
> .............
>

Oh I completely agree that the terminology is split phase and or center
tapped.. Just after reading all of this I am trying to rationalize why there
is so much debate.. I mean they are different phases 180deg apart. That is
measurable. I just cant understand why some refuse the fact that they are 2
different phases, i.e. "split-phase" as the name implies. This fits the
definiton of a different phase of power. Im not trying to change any
terminology in the process here.

Mike

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