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You can put a nylon screw and three nuts through the tabs on the diodes to give them more structure.

Well my Breitling Emergency started having a flashing screen last week (low battery) so ordered the correct battery and tried to do a battery replacement like I had done before. As I was opening the case my hand slipped and the watch and movement slid across the desk. Now it's totally dead though I can't see any physical damage or anything physically wrong. It just will not respond. This is going to cost a fortune with Breitling service USA. The only place I've ever wasted more money in a split-second is in a car.

Critiques are welcome. Help me avoid mistakes in the future.

Well done Les, I agree Paul’s transformers are very stable and well made. Before I get all carbonated, due to sudden parts saturation (thanks wink), I have another old school KGSSHV on the bench... it’s a beast compared to the mini I made a month or so ago, running a toasty 14mA.

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It was the fight club one that got me laughing out loud - thanks for that Dusty

Waiting to see Steve Hackett. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Red brown and black rice. Sooooo good.

Very nice Marc! Lots of respect for GS. The Mrs. has been wanting a classic dress two-hander and doesn't love Calatravas, so I found her an older VC ultra thin (33093/3) for Christmas that I think will do the job.

I'm going to test the current boards first. I don't mind making them available to people.

One of the reason I stopped posting was there just seemed to be so much drama. Getting angry and going off because of someone's post is just not a good use of my time. Being offended by these pics is everyone's right but restricting what others can post because of it, well that's their problem. It's a photography thread. I see modeling pics from a friend on FB that are not too far from these. I showed Cj's to her and was not offended in the least. So what is offensive to one might be art to someone else. This was not porn or even soft porn. You don't like them, move on. As to Cj's reaction, it's CJ. If it was anyone else, they would have gotten a pass but there is a past to consider. Either way, ignoring it probably accomplishes more than direct action, just my opinion. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Typical Crappy bullshit. You didn't say ANY of this shit in your titillating posts. You just had pics with names or references to bio info about "these women." Even when Antonio made a joke about how you were able to take these pervy boudoir photos you didn't explain it. You just wanted to show off the fact that some hot women let you take girly pics of them. You didn't say they knew and approved of you posting their pics in a public forum. You didn't say that they had aspirations of becoming models. You didn't say anything to justify your holier than thou bullshit about Chris being offensive, which he wasn't. It was perfectly understandable for Chris to think you were doing something stupid or obnoxious because you didn't offer any of this context or explain that the subjects knew you were showing images that are typically shared with a spouse or partner exclusively. I normally just ignore you and didn't say what Chris did even though I thought the same thing, and worse. I can't wait for you to say you're not sure what you ever did to piss me off, but I guess you won't now...

So this wound up being kind of funny. I checked everything, and I mean every part of that side. Used multimeter resistance mode on the transistors to double check them and compared values to the good side. Everything matched up. All the top trace stuff to ground went to ground. All terminals were fine with or without wires screwed in. The couple little bridge traces were fine. So left with nothing else, I went trace short hunting systematically, every point to every other point. Then I finally found the culprit. The last time I had replaced the 10m90s for that rail, the solder pad for one leg lifted up just a hair and I had pushed it back down and soldered everything up fine. But moving the board around must have snapped it somehow, or maybe it happened when I double checked the tightness of the screws on the heatsinks. What it left me with was a shorted trace that you couldn't see at all under even magnification. Ridiculous. Took less than half a minute to remove the busted loose pad, score a bit of the trace down to copper, tin it, bend the cut lead over it and solder it properly. Then everything fired up, just as it should.

Add to the terminal block issue if they are fake ones off ebay. Massive issues with that stuff.