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G6ONEDave · 22nd Jul 2021, 5:56 pm

I played a trick on one of my apprentices once. We were going through a batch of Alba/Bush ctv portable returns for a contract customer. So before my apprentice showed up for work, I took one of the colour portables and swapped the line scan coil wires over. Everything was OK whilst he checked the display in the bench mirror. He completed the repair, put the back on and then turned the set round for a final check that all was well. It was not until the adverts came on that he realised something was not right. After a while of head scratching he looked at me and I suggested some possible reasons for the reversed image. I thought that I was going to learn a new swear word that day.

Dave

22nd Jul 2021, 5:56 pm	#68
G6ONEDave Octode Join Date: Dec 2019 Location: Owston Ferry, North Lincolnshire, UK. Posts: 1,701	Re: Humour in the TV trade. I played a trick on one of my apprentices once. We were going through a batch of Alba/Bush ctv portable returns for a contract customer. So before my apprentice showed up for work, I took one of the colour portables and swapped the line scan coil wires over. Everything was OK whilst he checked the display in the bench mirror. He completed the repair, put the back on and then turned the set round for a final check that all was well. It was not until the adverts came on that he realised something was not right. After a while of head scratching he looked at me and I suggested some possible reasons for the reversed image. I thought that I was going to learn a new swear word that day. Dave __________________ Quote "All is hyperthetical, until it isn't!" (President Laura Roslin, Battlestar Galactica)