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Genius critter or human sabotage? Perplexing finding!
james_s:
--- Quote from: NiHaoMike on December 16, 2020, 02:02:48 pm ---And while I do agree that it probably wouldn't be good to tear apart a good monitor for that, for every Trinitron out there, there's probably dozens if not hundreds of cheaply made junk that practically nobody wants.
I suppose a "proper" high voltage capacitor would be better but we just want the unwanted animal to stop moving, not blow it to bits.
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Where? A low end 19" color TV will fetch $100+ as a "gaming TV" in the right place. Pretty much any vintage CRT computer monitor is worth $50+ in working condition. About the only cheap CRTs that turn up are the little 5" Chinese B&W TVs but after buying just about every one of those I came across to make mini vector monitors the supply has pretty much dried up. CRTs were getting scrapped like crazy up until about a year and a half ago, then suddenly the piles behind the recyclers around here were gone. That's how it goes with anything, the value bottoms out as nobody wants whatever it is, you can't even give them away and then you notice one day that they're just not around anymore.
CJay:
--- Quote from: coppercone2 on December 15, 2020, 10:09:45 pm ---
--- Quote from: james_s on December 15, 2020, 07:51:22 pm ---When I was a kid mice got into our garage and stashed a bunch of dog food somewhere in the exhaust system of my dad's classic Jaguar. They also ripped a hole in the leather and pulled some of the stuffing out of one of the seats, which I remember he was very unhappy about. He found out about the stash after he started up the car and it backfired and shot a bunch of kibbles up the driveway.
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I left the shop vac outside unplugged for 3 months and it turned into an acorn shot gun when I turned it on.
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We've all seen this one right?
SilverSolder:
That's one industrious squirrel! (or maybe more than one, hopefully!)
G7PSK:
Mice dont need much space to get into somewhere, if the gap is big enough to poke a pencil through a mouse can squeeze through the gap.
Ed.Kloonk:
--- Quote from: CJay on December 17, 2020, 10:47:47 am ---
--- Quote from: coppercone2 on December 15, 2020, 10:09:45 pm ---
--- Quote from: james_s on December 15, 2020, 07:51:22 pm ---When I was a kid mice got into our garage and stashed a bunch of dog food somewhere in the exhaust system of my dad's classic Jaguar. They also ripped a hole in the leather and pulled some of the stuffing out of one of the seats, which I remember he was very unhappy about. He found out about the stash after he started up the car and it backfired and shot a bunch of kibbles up the driveway.
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I left the shop vac outside unplugged for 3 months and it turned into an acorn shot gun when I turned it on.
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We've all seen this one right?
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--- Quote from: SilverSolder on December 17, 2020, 09:41:25 pm ---
That's one industrious squirrel! (or maybe more than one, hopefully!)
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Is this why my phone calls sound wooden?
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