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dave2010
26-01-2011, 15:58
Last week I wanted to show how an iPad could work with a wireless keyboard, so I took my keyboard to work. I brought it back in a bag, wrapped up.

Unfortunately ... (sounds like the Bricklayer story) ... it was quite late when I got back, and I let it slip from the padding I'd put round it when I took it out of the bag - not very high up - and it fell on my Squeezebox Boom.

Result - the keyboard now has a small dint at the back right. The Boom now has a dented speaker grille!

Does this sort of thing ever happen to anyone else? !!!

The keyboard is easy enough to live with - it's pretty minor, and the unit is functional. Anyway, the keyboard was "only" around £50., and most people wouldn't notice unless I told them.

The Boom is just a bit sadder, as the grilles don't look easily replaceable, and I'm not sure if Logitech would fix it anyway.

So - in similar situations, what would you do?

1. Nothing - just accept it and carry on.
2. Find someone to blame, and claim a new one on the insurance.
3. Find an artist friend, and splatter paint over the article in question, to produce a personalised work of art.
4. Buy a new one.
5. Try to get it fixed.
6. Dismantle it, and try to fix it yourself.
7. Other ....

I can live with it, but just slightly sad. I'm sure we must all have stories like this one.

keiths
26-01-2011, 16:19
6, then if you can't fix it, 1 if it was me.

Rare Bird
26-01-2011, 18:20
Thats nothing in comparison to the stupid stupid thing i did last year ..I's bought a new CD player in which i wanted to try with amp with just the headphones with out putting em in the rack. So i placed the CD player on the floor,tea towel ontop on CD player, amp ontop teatowel.For some odd reason i'd connected the player into the wrong input!

What did i do, i took the amp off the top & placed infront of the CDP, tilted forward so i can see the the connections, connected up corectly, misjudged the depth placing it back down.

Disaster a hand full of gouges in the CDP facia from top to bottom caused by the amp heatsink..Man did i blow up in flames. :steam:

MartinT
26-01-2011, 22:09
Many years ago I bought a brand new Ortofon MC10 cartridge. Got it home, carefully attached it to the arm and, in a moment of stupidity, swiped the cantilever clean off with the screwdriver. I had owned it for about half an hour :(

keiths
26-01-2011, 22:51
I had a Sumiko Blue Point Special. Briefly.

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