rockmanac wrote:
The last station I worked at... Our morning TD spilled chocolate milk into the not quite 3 month old HD switcher.
ACK! Oh my there goes that warranty!
In 96 when chief engineer for KOSA Ch 7 in Odessa Texas, the whole ENG crews got brand spanking new Sony "Beta-SP" cameras (8 total). Everything was great for the first 8 months...until one of them decided that taking the camera in and out of it's protective case was a waste of time, left it at home and toted that camera around in the back of their vehicle so it would bounce and bang into anything else back there. And one day he had several jugs of RO water in the back too, along with the news ENG gear and guess what happened next.
{Sony Beta-Cam sings} Splish splash I got me a bath...all on a Saturday night...rub dub as the engineer scrubs...trying to bring me to life....
Oh the pains to see things like that happen..or brought in to the shop when no one is around..finding it there on the bench with no notes, no what happened explanations..just the inventory identification tag linking the culprit to the disaster.
Accidents can happen anywhere anytime though. Those are excusable. It's the neglected on purpose ones that drove me insane.
RFBurns
When something gets in the way...either try to work with it, or go around it and solve the problem.