Originally Posted by
Danny42C
Octane (#10465),
This is not the spirit that "Made the Empire Great" !
Danny.
Couldn't agree with you more, Danny!
I remember when my 2 girls were little, and some toy got broken, getting out the tools, and with the assistance of various unguents, spare screws and other sundry "come in handy" bits, getting the said thing working again. After all, that's what Dads do!!
How can the modern child look up to a parent who says, "Just chuck it in the bin and we'll buy a new one"?
However, I must admit defeat the other day. The charger for my battery drill stopped charging. The cable at the plug end looked a bit suspect, so I chopped it off. Bared the end of cables and checked for voltage. Nothing. Had a look at the plug end, and discovered the screws that held the thing together were of a pattern I'd never come across before. After a bit of sawing & filing, I'd managed to construct a tool that would hopefully remove them. Success!
Inside was a little transformer and a few diodes. Checked the output DC. Nothing.
Checked the output from the transformer. Nothing. Sod it, I'm beat!
I do however, have a wee tool to extract non-standard screws, so not all my time was wasted.