On 04/30/2017 04:17 AM, Diesel wrote:
philo news Apr 2017 03:45:41 GMT in alt.home.repair, wrote:

Ironically after the buy outs , Exide is no longer Exide.

http://www.timesnews.net/Business/20...tol-operations

Enersys-Delaware bought all of the Exide technology including the
manufacturing facilities and Exide was nothing but a name owned by
/some/ of the original owners. They in turn bought out Gould
National Battery which have previously bought out Chloride Battery
(which is where I originally started)

So Enersys is responsible for the bankruptcy that closed the Bristol plant?


I only have familiarity of the US operations but that plant closing was
an Exide plant which is absolutely nothing to do with Enersys.

http://www.timesnews.net/News/2013/0...for-bankruptcy

So if you want the superior Exide technology you need to go to
Enersys.

No, thanks.

I seriously doubt you would be using forklift batteries or stationary
batteries. I doubt you ever would have anything bigger than a car
battery and I did not deal with those.



BD told me you were some genius with computers too, and I found
out differently after chatting with you for a bit, so You'll have
to excuse me if I question other things you may discuss at this
point.


It was me just being modest and I do admit to not being much of a
programmer...but as far as actually trouble-shooting and repairing
I am battery pretty near 1000.

If you can't read/write code, you're limited. Sorry, but, you are.
The computer still 0wns you, you don't 0wn it.


It's not like I can't do it, but I prefer the hardware end of things.

Way back around the year 2000 I went so far as compiling my own Linux
kernel . In a way it was kind of challenging and fun but that type of
stuff is not my cup of tea.

I realize you're quite a bit older than myself, but, my electronics
troubleshooting background isn't exactly new. I was repairing tv's,
stereos, etc, and later, vhs based vcrs; previously beta max; which
was superior, but, still lost out, long before I became a teenager.
Some kids did the dishes for allowance, I fixed neighbors equipment
for mine.


I repaired my first radio (an AM portable) when I was 12 years old.
I did my first computer repair in 1979. For a post graduate course I
built a 6800 based computer that was used to program EPROMS.
It had four 10k memory boards and one of them only registered as 8k. My
professor could not figure it out but I eventually did. It was a bad PCB
feed through.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_6800

As far as your troubleshooting skills go, how often did you have to
rely on other peoples software to deal with something, and how often
did you resort to reloading Windows to fix a software issue? I'm
pretty sure I've got you beat on both counts, as in, much lower
numbers.

I never have had to reload Windows to fix a software problem. Back in
the days of Win98 I did occasionally get a machine that was was so
infected the only thing that made sense was to re-load Windows.

In the case I recall off hand, it would have taken hours to trace down
every last trace of infection yet barely took an hour to back up the
tiny amount of data and reload

I don't know if I've ever worked on computer I could not fix. One
of my most harrowing repairs was repairing the electronics on a
failed hard drive. I found a bad solder joint on a surface mount
capacitor. I then gave the owner of the machine a lecture on
backing up.

Try removing a soldered eeprom to reflash it off the mainboard for
the user. and then, reinstall it to the mainboard, without
destroying it in the process. The board, or the eeprom. That's
harrowing. All because said user interrupted a bios flashupdate in
progress. They thought they were fuxored. They nearly were.

For many years I repaired circuit boards on my job and have plenty of
experience replacing IC's. Never unsoldered an EPROM though. My "lab" at
home does not have the good vacuum desoldering tool I had at work.
I've had plenty of dumb customers but never one foolish enough to
interrupt an EPROM flash




Ever remove an active copy of lojack from a laptop without losing
any data or otherwise harming the laptop? I have. Ever encounter a
password locked Dell where the password was set on the HD itself? I
have. And, I succesfully unlocked the hard disk, too. No, sticking
the HD in another machine won't give you any access to the drive
contents, if that's what you were thinking. The machine won't
even be able to identify the drive, because the circuitry on the
controller board on the drive itself is locked out. Trying to get
cheeky and swap controller boards will not unlock the drive either;
it's mated to the mechanical section at this point and will not
allow you any access. In case you had that in mind as the next step.

Ever crack Autocard r13 as a teenager, and make thousands by selling
a couple of cracked copies? I have.


LOL, when I was a teen I was into tube-style amateur radio equipment.

If I can't claim to have removed lojac, I don't think you've ever
neutralized the tank circuit of a DX-100 transmitter.

Your argument only proves people have different skills

Ever enjoy all the channels one could get via dish/directv via
emulation and reprogramming smart cards? I've done that too.



Threw my TV out 25 years ago. I don't have anything to do with that ****