On Wed, 14 Sep 2005 17:12:25 GMT, carl mciver wrote:

I don't think you'll find a nerd that's old enough
to know what a blown selenium rectifier smells like, which is actually the
part I find amusing.

(me: sheepishly raises hand...) - but, I've always been a
scrounger/surplus seeking kind of guy.

Worse, though, are tantalum capacitors. That taste stays with you for
_days_.