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Old 28th Oct 2017, 6:25 pm   #5
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Default Re: Never assume anything!

A place I was at contracted out everything they could. The firm that did cable assemblies got live and earth crossed on a mains input connector in a batch of cables for a prototype in R&D.

Someone just assembled the first proto and plugged it in. No checks.

Ye gods was it hard to get it through the skulls of some labbies that you don't just plug new things in without thinking.

Larry Niven created the phrase "Think of it as evolution in action"

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