Easy, let me tell you how!
Whilst up on the
Oodnadatta Track last week, my old Phillips FM 320 died.
I could get signals out, but not back in, and it was making my small hand-held unit behave strange as
well.
Upon arrival back in
Adelaide, I stopped at a
well know ( to us Adelaidian’s ) two way radio
shop, and purchased a new GME Electrophone 3400, along with a remote speaker.
I installed it last Saturday, and works a treat, but wamted to be sure that I had done everthing correctly. I made an appointment to see a service guy at this
shop where I had bought it for 1830 hour last night ( Thursday ).
Got there a little early, and he was on his meal break, so, seeing this place is right next door to Macca’s, thought I would do the same. Large fries & Deli Choice Vegie Roll. Roll was almost impossible to open, and when I did, stuff fell out everywhere.......... sauce, little sliced champignions......... the lot. Still tasted okay though.
Anyway........... went back to see the dude to
check out my installation, and probably got about 70 out of 100, ‘cause NO-ONE is going to do it as good as them......... LOL!!!
He did impart some interesting info on electrical installations in autos......
One item was the correct fitting of PL 259 plugs, and how this company is the only one in SA that suggests to use a 2 mm. slice of insulation behind the braid, to ensure no stray hairs come in contact with the centre of the plug.
The other thing was short circuits & fires in cars. Very scary stuff indeed......
Apparently, if you’ve buggered up. and short circuited something, without having a fuse in line, it can become a chain reaction, because once the insulation melts off the offending cable, and it’s in a loom, and the other cables start melting their insulation, they too, will short out. Simply removing your original mistake will not stop it........... too late.
Anyway, after he pointed all these things out to me, and gave my vehicle the thumbs up, I put on my sunglasses, which were hanging around my neck. One of those bloody champignions had dropped inside on of the lenses! I was hoping like hell he couldn’t see it! I was avoiding his gaze, and trying to finish off our conversation with only one eye! I must have looked like something out of the shining............
I wonder if he noticed? If he did, at least he was polite...........
One eyed Wolf