I don't use my first name as it seems a little pretentious http://www.royalalberthall.com/

Impressive venue, that! And, I daresay, sufficiently spacious to accommodate every pothole in Blackburn, Lancashire!

TTFN
HP

PS -- Should my attempt at humor escape you - don't worry too much! It's down to my penchant for antediluvian entertainment (CIP "The Beatles')

 

The user name was dreamed up long, long ago, based on... I no longer remember.

Please tell me it wasn't 'Obi Wan Kenobi'?

TTFN
HP

PS - I know! There I go with my 'retro-references' again!

 

and a 1/3 HP fan motor into an $1800 job

Lemme tell ya -- If those blower motors are as difficult to service as those found in most 'window units' I've encountered -- $1,800 is a bargain!


Best regards
HP

 

Please tell me it wasn't 'Obi Wan Kenobi'?

No, that wasn't it.

 

Please tell me it wasn't 'Obi Wan Kenobi'?

I assumed the same.

 

I don't use my first name as it seems a little pretentious http://www.royalalberthall.com/

I can actually say I saw Albert Hall perform at the R. Albert Hall.
(He was a musician in the band).
Max.

 

I can actually say I saw Albert Hall perform at the R. Albert Hall.
(He was a musician in the band).
Max.

Not this one

 

Not this one

Circa 1960's
Max.

 

kilovolt was taken, so I tried a few variations till the site would take it. The Avatar is of my own creation, I have several turtle characters.

kilovolt is a nickname given to me after I repaired a 5 disk CD player with an incidental shock from my finger.

kv

 

kilovolt is a nickname given to me after I repaired a 5 disk CD player with an incidental shock from my finger.

The development manager destroyed the equipment I was working on when he prodded it with his finger and a big blue spark leapt out of the end of his finger.

 

The development manager destroyed the equipment I was working on when he prodded it with his finger and a big blue spark leapt out of the end of his finger.

The funny part about my incident, a new employee about the Graduate in EE asked me where the laser eye was, it wasn't enough for him to be told the round part in the middle of the square thing on 2 rails.

My boss guessed at the time the laser was bad, I was told to replace the laser we had in stock hoping it would fix it. I was demonstrating to the new employee the process of the laser is to search and was telling him look at the laser's eye, not moving not searching. I even told him I'm not ground strapped and didn't want to do that, I really didn't think I was charged. Boy howdy was I wrong.

kv

 

Would that be a church spire or merely an ICBM site back of the trees?

TTFN
HP

Builduing is the Admiralty in St. Petersburg.

You might like it: http://www.nevsky-prospekt.com/admiralty.html

 

The funny part about my incident, a new employee about the Graduate in EE asked me where the laser eye was, it wasn't enough for him to be told the round part in the middle of the square thing on 2 rails.

My boss guessed at the time the laser was bad, I was told to replace the laser we had in stock hoping it would fix it. I was demonstrating to the new employee the process of the laser is to search and was telling him look at the laser's eye, not moving not searching. I even told him I'm not ground strapped and didn't want to do that, I really didn't think I was charged. Boy howdy was I wrong.

kv

You guys get static charge ?
I never had that problem here. I am never grounded when I work.

 

You guys get static charge ?
I never had that problem here. I am never grounded when I work.

I realized it was my choice of footwear and carpet. I could also pickup charge when I bench tested a TV and return it to the shelf with the screen against my chest.

I never failed to put one on after that, especially when I went to work in R&D with Electronic and Software Engineers.
kv

 

Content unrelated to thread was moved to its own thread under Off Topic.

 

Content unrelated to thread was moved to its own thread under Off Topic.

So there will be several threads being spawned of this one then?

 

So there will be several threads being spawned of this one then?

I don't know. Suggestions?

 

Good stuff from the 'Username' thread but not pertinent to that topic. New thread created.

Yeah, we were slowly swerving off the original topic. The imfamous "train of thought" drifting.

 

Lemme tell ya -- If those blower motors are as difficult to service as those found in most 'window units' I've encountered -- $1,800 is a bargain!

Best regards
HP

I've been using the wrong customers.
Window units are nasty, fiddly things to work on, but the manufacturers of central air conditioners are so dedicated to high tech that they have replaced a $100 motor with a $600 motor which contains a 3 phase variable speed drive. Then they charge $1200 for replacing it. One wiring connector, 2 screws, 3 more screws and swap the squirrel cage to the new motor. Put it back together. Driving time, paperwork, and labor amounts to about 2 hours...$600/hour...and you know that isn't, "workman's wages". I can still do most fan motors for $200 and less than half of that is for the motor.