On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, G.M.Bulley wrote: > I'm a big fan of replacing it at the least sign of trouble. If you > haven't replaced it in 25k, test it by throwing it into a deep body of > water*. If it floats, use it. If not, replace it. A coworker of mine who was in the Navy called this a "koosh test". You drop it over the side, and if it goes "koosh" when it hits the water, it must be defective. He said this was a common way of handling persickety high-tech black boxes from aircrat that had a tendancy to come back with a note saying "could not duplicate problem" when sent in for repairs. |
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