silent cough switch

[sparks794]

Don't forget what your time is worth. It starts with a trip to Radio Shack. Then it then continues with drilling out the box, watching it spin around in the drill press when the bit catches a burr, looking at the blood coming from your fingers that were holding the box, driving to the emergency room, waiting 10 hours to get sewn up, returning home, and finally wiring the box. Sometimes letting somebody else enjoy the assembly process is a good idea. ;D

Ahh yes.

1) Walk/Drive to nearby Radio Shack. Three-quarters of the parts you need are out of stock. Clerk sends you to the other store that's about 20 miles away.

2) Once you've gathered all the parts, print out a copy of the schematic and pull out your tools.

3) Use a hand drill (because you or your station is too poor/stingy to buy a drill press) to make holes in the panels. Drill bit gets jammed - the sheet metal flies out of your hands and starts spinning along with the bit.

4) Spend a half hour getting metal splinters out of your finger.

4) Finish drilling the hole. Spend half an hour with a file, or a Dremel with a grinding stone to finish enlarging the hole to its proper size.

5) Spend an hour getting metal splinters out of the palm of your hand, and your fingers.

6) Install components in the box.

7) Dress up a cut after you sliced yourself on a sharp edge. Nurse a soldering iron burn (or two).

8 ) Hook it up. Discover that it doesn't work right.

9) Check your work. In your haste, you discover a part that was wired incorrectly.

10) Try to unsolder the component and resolder to the proper terminal. Damage the component with your iron.

11) Another trip to the Radio Shack 20 miles away.

12) Get into a fender bender - spend 15 minutes dealing with the enraged owner of the other car.

13) Get to the store just before they close. Buy the last piece in stock. Get home and reinstall.

14) Finally. It Works.

Total time......about 10 hours. And that's only the first of four that you have to build. ;D

You forgot 3A, 7A, 11A - cussing loudly for several minutes only to find you had an audience when you are done.

 

[spacetrucker]

I had a news man I NEVER could crack up. He came in one day after he had an early lunch to do the noon news. Close to the end of the cast he hit the cough switch and let out a few belches. I quickly made up a sign that said "Foster Brooks". Finally got him.

 

[radiorob2.0]

You forgot 3A, 7A, 11A - cussing loudly for several minutes only to find you had an audience when you are done.

Let's not forget step 1A-The clerk tries to sell you a cell phone plan or some other item that insure commission atop the $7/hour base (the pay for an assistant manager which is why I turned down a Rat Shack job...that and the manager conducting the interview, a former hospital gurney pusher, told me I knew nothing about home theater because I don't use monster cables....but I digress.) You politely say "no thanks".

Then step 11b when another clerk tries to sell you a cell plan or some other spiff. This time, after the day you had, the answer is "no" and not as polite as the first time.