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Discussion in 'Electronic Repair' started by Fred, Jan 26, 2022.

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If yous think you're a real technician, just wait until a little daughter
brings yous her expressionless Furby she loves and begs you to resurrect him/her/it.
30 years of military and noncombatant electronics repair experience is no
match for a dead Furby.

Afterward considerable research into Furby electro-mechanics, I discovered an
intermittent limit switch in the flambastic transwobulator had sent
negative vibrations to the transwobulator's flabillitator in such a mode
that further transwobulation was impossible as it put the transwobulator
into a state very simular to a human being coma.

A couple of strokes of my relay contact burnisher and a tiny squirt of
magic WD-twoscore brought Furby back from the grave, much to the delight of his
owner, who now thinks I have more magic powers than whatever religious leader
in the Universe....(c;]

I'm terrified more dead Furbys will materialize at the easily of crying
little girls who are born to wrap 65 year old electronics technicians
around their little fingers......Failure is not an selection!

Absolutely nothing I ever repaired, calibrated or overhauled has been
anywhere near as rewarding at that dead Furby.

(Service hint - Mommy does Non know what batteries in the drawer are dead
and which ones are good, even though she thinks they are "new".)
Additional service hint - Furby's peel comes off like a t-shirt once y'all
cut the tywrap from effectually his bottom groove. Don't forget to replace his
tywrap upon successful completion considering "we don't want anyone to see him
naked."....her words...(c;]
The old "Worlds of Wonder" animated toys (Teddy Ruxpin, Snoopy, Goofy,
Mickey Mouse, etc.) make Furby'due south wait like a walk in the park. While
fixing them is possible, doing so in a cosmetically acceptable way
is the tough role!
(I "collect" them and "repurpose" them which means "guts transplants")
It assumes Furby is a male child.
Pitiful if that offends you.
I'yard a newbie here. Didn't know each mail service came with an English
professor....(c;]
Really, my specialty is metrology. My last serious job, before moving
on to the electronic organ/keyboard business in the late 1980'due south, was as a
GS-eleven Electronic Technician at the Charleston Naval Shipyard's Metrology
Laboratory.
Since 1964, when I joined the Navy to avoid existence murdered for the
military contractors profits in Vietnam, I've been in military
electronics most of the time. In 1977-79, I spent 2.v years building a
metrology laboratory at Iranian Air Strength Headquarters, Tehran for a Us
contractor. I've been back to the MidEast many times for our armed services
and others.

Think I can qualify as an electronics technician? I taught them at
Sumter Surface area Technical Higher, Sumter, SC, for 7 years from '71 to '78.
Great fun if you don't need money to live on.
aoliphant had written this in response to
http://www.electrondepot.com/repair/Re-Furby-repair-39575-.htm :
I saw this online later my prized possession..white furby has been chewed
up by my canis familiaris.
I've had him for 13 years and I can't handle him RIP. He needs a
transplant. He still works, just my dog ate
the eyes out and bankrupt some of the plastic parts effectually it.

Any suggestions? Would you care to be the donor? haha

D Yuniskis wrote:

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