Try, try again.!
On Thu, 12 Aug 2004 11:41:33 -0400, graywolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> LOL!
>
> Consider it practice for the real job, Sid. It will be easier the second time
> around. Might even check out the possibility of putting a plug-in connector in
> this time around. That will guarantee you will never have to do it again (see
> Murphy's Law).
>
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> Sid Barras wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> > When you totally screw up, it ain't pretty.
> >
> > I dropped my back up AF 500 FTZ the other day, and the tinkling sound of
> > broken glass told me I'd done the ultimate damage to it. Having dropped
> > the other one a few months back and not broken the glass, but broken
> > something else so that it didn't work either left me in a predicament.
> > No flash for my MZS or PZ1 or brand new MZ-5n (thanks Joe W)....
> > So, I had this bright idea-- make one flash that works out of both
> > units! The one I broke the lamp in still zoomed and the LCD lit up, so,
> > why not take the top half from one and the bottom half of the other and
> > combine them into one neat working package and save at least $100 bucks
> > on a repair?
> >
> > Heck, event the scary number of wires revealed and no convenient
> > plug-in connectors didn't scare me-- I have soldered a thing or two in
> > my time, I've even got one of those "solder-suckers" for removing wires
> > from pc boards. And I've got some of that heat shrink tubing for a
> > professional finish to the job.
> >
> > So all went well-- 20 or 30 thousand 24 AWG wires don't scare me. Just
> > do 'em one at a time... Even though of that number there were only one
> > different colors, I still sailed on impetuously and confidently.
> >
> > When I finished, it looked great! It even all packed back in the case
> > nice and easy.
> >
> > Until I realized I'd just spent the last few hours resoldering the same
> > bottom half to its original top half.
> >
> > Sigh... I'm gonna look at some flash units on ebay today. Those Sunpaks
> > and Metz units are not bad...
> >
> > Sid-- with salty tears ruining my handiwork...
> >
> >
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> graywolf
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