[sdiy] Defluxing/Circuit Trace Repair

[Batz Goodfortune]

Y-ellow All.

At 11:38 PM 5/9/02 +0100, Neil Johnson wrote:
>Peter and all,
>
> > I think you mean "duct" tape - the handyman's secret weapon.
>
>Actually, there IS a duck tape:
>
>         http://www.manco.com
>
>Avoid the picture galleries ... truly frightening!!!!!  Gaaahhh!!

Cheeses H Rice I thought we were insane. Obviously we have a long road 
ahead of us before we get to where these people live. I would truly be seen 
dead in a tuxedo made entirely from duct tape.

Here, the tradition is fencing wire. A ready supply is only as far away as 
your nearest fence. Mind you it pisses the farmers off a bit. A mate of 
mine was out bush bashing and snapped his front suspension. Hundreds of 
miles from anywhere, he found a lump of dead tree and strapped it in with 
some fencing wire. Drove round for 3 or 4 months like that before he 
decided it was time to do something about it. Your typical Australian tool 
kit consists of a length of fencing wire and a pair of pliers. You can do 
anything from mending a fence to an appendectomy with that. Mind you, open 
heart surgery takes a little more sophistication. You need to find the 
sharp bit off a can of beans to make the incisions. So remember. Come 
prepared. Always carry a can opener.

It is true though, the uses for fencing wire never fails to amaze me. Ziggy 
Switkowski, the CEO of our monopolist telco, recently boasted that Telstra 
was a world leader in fencing wire communication technology. Saying that 
over 60 percent of Australia's rural telephone network was entirely 
dependent on it. After cutting yet another 10,000 jobs to qualify for next 
year's performance bonus, he announced a grand plan to bring the net to all 
remote rural Australians. He's going to supply all remote properties with 
bails of cyclone fencing.

I myself use fencing wire extensively. My entire studio is held together 
with it. And fencing wire makes THEE best speaker cable money can buy. You 
just have to remember to keep it separated with a couple of house bricks. 
And of course you can't receive television or radio in Australia without a 
suitably adapted coat hanger. Which is really nothing more than a bent up 
length of fencing wire.

Sadly this technology hasn't seemed to have caught on in the rest of the 
world but I'm sure fencing wire's time will come. Which is why I've sunk 
all my money into wire futures. Everyone says "If only I'd invested 10 
dollars in microsoft back in the early 80s." Well trust me. The next Bill 
Gates will come not from the bio-tech industry but from the wire industry. 
And I'm not going to miss out this time round.

Be absolutely Icebox.


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