Ken G. ) writes:
Glad you got it fixed .. see that was easy .

The people who did not give a decent answer do not know the answer so
now they learn too .


These little homilies don't do a thing.

The poster declared that he knew about electronics and soldering,
yet he neither knew how to discharge the CRT, or had the means of
looking it up.

That does not indicate someone who is well versed in electronics.

Now the interesting thing is that if he'd not put in that bit,
he might not have gotten the answers he did. Boastfulness often
doesn't result in help, it certainly doesn't result in sympathy.

And ultimately the boast didn't do a thing, because whether or
not he did know anything, he didn't know the bit he did need to know
(by his own acknowledgement, after all, he was asking how to discharge
the CRT). He couldn't have done any worse by not putting that bit
in.

All of this is reinforced when he comes back and thanks the people
he helped, and denounces those who didn't. That's part of the process.

It's not as if this hasn't happened before, by many other posters.

Michael