Re: How can I deal with a food stealer?

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From: edwalter@cs.bsu.edu (- Erv Walter --)
Subject: Re: How can I deal with a food stealer?
Message-ID: D4vCJJ.BAv@cs.bsu.edu
Organization: Ball State University - Computer Science Department
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Date: Fri, 3 Mar 1995 14:35:42 GMT
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Paul C Leyland (pcl@foo.oucs.ox.ac.uk) wrote:

: Phenylphthalene is the correct spelling (I think!)
  ^^^^^^

Phenolphthalein - an indicator that is colorless below pH 8 and pink above
pH 10.

ObHack:  I bought a great (?) used stereo from a guy for $150, and it worked
fine for a year or so.  Then, suddenly, whenever someone tried to play a
tape, the speakers would cut out if the level of music got about half or
so.  THis was really annoying (especially on really great songs).  I opened
up the cassette player component.  However, not being highly educated in
the area of electronics, I didn't have a clue what I was looking at.
Solution?  I "wiggled" stuff around inside while a tape was playing
(not
really safe...).  Anyway, I eventually determined that if I unpluged one of
the circuit boards (the one responsible for controling the cool lights on
the front), the tape player worked fine (minus cool lights).

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Ervin D. Walter, Ball State University        - edwalter@bsu-cs.bsu.edu

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