Smoking is bad for you tv

[phil d]

We all know about the dangers of smoking,and recently of so called passive smoking,well now there's a new one.Did you know that smoking can seriously harm your TV.In the news yesterday was a story about a couple who smoke(20 a day each),Their TV packed up and they were told by the manufacturer that they would not repair it even though it was still under warranty as it had been damaged by smoking! apparently the electronics need to "breathe" and they'd been damaged by breathing in tobacco smoke.

 

[Evans Electric]

Now thats a new one .  

You have reminded me though , of back when the whole world smoked , everywhere.   Doing lighting maintenance at offices in the city , 

Take down all the 4' X 2'  flat sheet diffs  , relamp , new starters , then take all the diffs back to the yard to wash .  

They would be thick with brown nicotine which would run off like treacle .   When done the lighting levels were up by about 500 % .

 

[kerching]

Now thats a new one .  

You have reminded me though , of back when the whole world smoked , everywhere.   Doing lighting maintenance at offices in the city , 

Take down all the 4' X 2'  flat sheet diffs  , relamp , new starters , then take all the diffs back to the yard to wash .  

They would be thick with brown nicotine which would run off like treacle .   When done the lighting levels were up by about 500 % .

We used to do that....also for the big window fans

father in law worked for a chemical company, gave us some new fangled cleaner.

asked us how we went on with it..........absolutely marvelous, best cleaner we had used!

asked us how much we diluted it?

diluted?!?!?!?!?....used it neat instead of 50:1!

no wonder our hands turned white and went a bit dry

 

[phil d]

I worked for  a firm once and they treated the staff like surfs,their sister owned a reading room in the town,it was always full of old blokes puffing away on pipes and fags,I think they only read the racing papers.Anyway they sent me there once to repair some "faulty" fans,they were 18" Ventaxia's and they had about a 1/4" of nicotine on them causing the shutters not to open.I didn't like the woman,she was as bad as her brothers and lads were always getting sent over to do stupid jobs that she considered beneath her,anyway I lost my rag and ended up telling her to try cleaning occasionally as I had better things to dddly enough they never sent me there again.

 

[phil d]

We used to do that....also for the big window fans

father in law worked for a chemical company, gave us some new fangled cleaner.

asked us how we went on with it..........absolutely marvelous, best cleaner we had used!

asked us how much we diluted it?

diluted?!?!?!?!?....used it neat instead of 50:1!

no wonder our hands turned white and went a bit dry

An ex girlfriend of mine's dad worked for the local council,we'd moved into a house together and the white toilet was terribly stained at the bottom,we'd tried everything and nothing shifted it,anyway he announced he'd bring some stuff home from work that would shift anything,apparently they used it on toilets in void properties all the time and it brought them up like new.True to his word he brought a gallon and we poured some in before we went to bed,we flushed it the following morning and it was like a new loo,all bright and shiny.We had loads left and a few weeks later I was working on something and couldn't get the oil and other stuff off my hands,she poured some of the magic stuff on and the gunge started to run off,I rubbed my hands together to get the last of it off and it started to burn and sting,I washed it off with a lot of cold water and my hands were spotless,if rather red and dry.I asked him what the chemical was and guess what? Hydrochloric acid,ouch!

 

[Blue Duck]

careful cleaning toilets with that stuff a mate left some in too long or poured too much in and cracked the bowl!

:slap

 

[kerching]

Father in Law...yet again!

brought some new drain unblocker home from work

tried in toilet as he had 'quite a rich  diet'

quite a vigorous exothermic reaction took place and melted the Multiquick toilet connector

mother in Law was initially unaware of this void twixt toilet and soil pipe...until,her feet got wet

 

[Rob_the_rich]

A client of mine used a chemical sink unblocker in the bathroom basin. The gases given off by it turned the new chrome taps, and the waste outlet a brassy colour, permanently.