Typical 21st century response to EVERYTHING --- blame anyone & everyone else
for your malady / mis-fortune, EXCEPT yourself...!
Shakespeare was oh-so-right in what he said about lawyers...
~73~ Eddy VE3CUI - VE3XZ
----- Original Message -----
From: "k7fm" <k7fm@teleport.com>
To: <rbonner@qro.com>; "'Paul M Dunphy'" <amplifier@ve1dx.net>; "'Amplifier-
List'" <amps@contesting.com>
Sent: Friday, April 20, 2007 9:55 AM
Subject: Re: [Amps] ACOM-1000 replacing tubes
> Two months ago, W1IOU was found slumped over his workbench, with burn
marks
> covering 80% of his body. His wife had been out shopping and returned to
> find him dead. In front of him was a Heathkit SB-220 amplifier opened.
> Autopsies found that he died from electrocution.
>
> After his wife met with the family lawyer, a fellow ham came over to
prepare
> for the estate sale and found the following notes from the lawyer.
>
> "1. Please assemble all owners and operator's manuals so that your case
> lawyer can review them for specific instructions regarding safety
> precautions.
>
> 2. Please search and find any bills or notes of anyone who may have
worked
> on this amplifier.
>
> 3. Find any original bill of sale so that we can determine who sold the
> amplifier to your husband.
>
> 4. Please list the name of any school teachers that may have taught your
> husband electronics, and the full school names.
>
> 5. Attach the name and full address of any living parents who may have
> given your husband instructions on safety precautions dealing with high
> voltage.
>
> 6. List the name and address of the electrician who wired your home.
>
> 7. List the name and address of any neighbor who might have complained to
> your husband about interference, which could have caused him to open his
> amplifier.
>
> 8. List the manufacturer of the tubes in the amplifier.
>
> 9. Bring his computer in, so that we may carefully go through the
contents
> to determine if your husband was a member of any "reflectors", in which
case
> we will join all of the amateurs who may have given any advice about
working
> on amplifiers, without giving proper safety advice about the dangers of
> working on your own equipment, and specific advice about working on the
> Heathkit amplifier.
>
> We anticipate that legal action will take about 6 years and exhaust your
> financial reserves before recovery. Our fee is 40% of what we spend and
50%
> of what we recover."
>
>
> 73, Colin K7FM
>
>
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