It took me five+ years to get up the balls to throw it away. It wasn't my intention to see it being tossed. I just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. At this time in my life, I was making $1.75 an hour; so buying another $500 receiver or paying the $90/hr, for repair, was mostly out of the question. I worked very hard and saved a little at a time to come up with the original money to buy the 1250.
Yes, this was a real blow for me because that 1250 was a sort of symbol of something I had always wanted, a real quality high power receiver. I went through high school and college with a 25 watt Lafayette integrated amp and a pair of Criterion 10a speakers. I felt I deserved something special and I worked hard to get it. That is why it was real blow when I killed it with my own hand. I was like having a shotgun being fired two feet from my face. I'm over it now and I have a 1280 and a 1250 rehabbed by mattsd. They are now the core of my living room system. I'm feeling much better now.
Been there, done that KingBubba. Nearly the same exact story, except after popping a fuse, I replaced with a LARGER fuse on my CHERRY-MINT 1250. It got tossed in a dump (not by me, but by the friend I gave it to, with the stipulation he get it fixed).