Re: New Members - please post your introductions here

Hi Guys,
another Brit here...not a trained engineer/tech but like to think a bit of knowledge/common sense can give a new lease of life to my gear.

My mum was a war child (WW2) and hence I grew up never wasting anything unless unavoidable. At some point I realised that even REALLY complex devices sometimes had simple fixes to give them a new lease of life. Darbey's Law states that, if you take something that's broken apart and then put it back together again, 50% of the time it will work. For the other 50%...