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- From: elphantas@aol.com (El Phantas)
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- Subject: Re: POWER SUPPLY PROBLEMS
- Date: 22 Feb 1996 16:53:46 -0500
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- In article <4gi19b$e94@tigger.planet.eon.net>, Darren Alessandrini
- <dalessan@edpower.com> writes:
-
- > By the way, I found it shocking that you mentioned the standard power
- >supplies
- >could be rebuilt. How do you get rid of all the tar thats used to encase
- the
- >components. Even the small fuse within is encased in tar.
-
- Actually, it's epoxy, but some people here have done it. Not me. No way.
- Ok, I admit it, I tried, but chipping away at that stuff and getting a
- sliver of epoxy in my eye was enough for me. I even tried a Dremel with a
- cutting wheel, and I broke three wheels before I called it quits, cut the
- cables off, and threw the brick in the trash.
-