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The result of playing Black Sabbath too loud through an SX-3900.
Lwrs10
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The result of playing Black Sabbath too loud through an SX-3900.
wow
uxwbill
Lurking in the Shadows
Uhm..."ouch?" "You're lucky you didn't have a housefire?"
Was that set fixable or did it get written off? I feel silly even asking.
I've never happened to catch pictures, but:
1. My first encounter with a burnt and abused receiver was a Technics SA-410. The front panels buttons had been busted up, and there was a massively burnt resistor around the STK power pack. It might have been electrically fixable, if I knew more at the time.
2. I came downstairs one day to discover some ants on the face of my Optimus STA-795 receiver. I didn't think anything of it until I pulled the manual out from underneath it! I found a massive number of ants all over the manual, surrounding this gigantic white "thing" that they had made. I squashed all of them and cleaned the white thing up. To this day I have no idea what it was. It's never happened again.
3. I bought a Teac AG-790 receiver thinking that it could be fixed. One channel was out. Opened it up and found bad burn damage around several large resistors near the final transistors. Most of the resistors were brittle and ruined. Turned out there was a lot of circuit damage in the setup, so off to the recycler's it went after a few efforts were made to fix it! I probably do have pictures of that somewhere.
Sorry these aren't more interesting. If someone wants to start a thread on computer-related fires...
Gudstufshevy
Art
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uxwbill
Lurking in the Shadows
I'm thinking more along the lines of actually setting fire to the house or building in which that receiver was located.
Yeah, I had to do a little touch-up painting in the apartment after that.
Gudstufshevy
Art
Me too, show that picture to your insurance agent... (bet he thinks so too).
Just kidding, sorry for your loss, and glad it didn't get out of control!
Just kidding, sorry for your loss, and glad it didn't get out of control!
oldskl
Well-Known Member
The result of playing Black Sabbath too loud through an SX-3900.
Were you playing it backwards? because I heard if you play it backwards Satan will show up. Im thinking from the looks of that fire that maybe he did.
grillebilly
Empty Head
Yeah, I had to do a little touch-up painting in the apartment after that.
could it be that your neighbors were forming prayer groups to put your racket to a smoking halt??? :scratch2:
ecandle
There's hope for you yet Russell
Holy sh.... Did you see this happen?
TAGO MAGO
Super Member
The result of playing Black Sabbath too loud through an SX-3900.
What?!? Were there foil wrapped fuses that led to this fire? I can imagine there was some audio warning before this happened that was ignored.
Numistrek09
Super Member
Wished i had taken some pictures of my RT 909 before i started restoring it. Filth and damage abounded. The pre-amp board was cracked about 1/4 of the way across the board, long ways! So no wonder no sound in Rev Playback!
Not much else to show for yet. I tend to stay away from disaster pieces at this stage in my repairing life.
Not much else to show for yet. I tend to stay away from disaster pieces at this stage in my repairing life.
