How to let the smoke out of your old VCR

[crelf]

[GraemeJ]

QUOTE (crelf @ Dec 20 2008, 02:07 AM)

Sometimes this happens to my LV code - except it takes a bit longer to get the message.

[jcarmody]

I have only one

on YouTube, and it's fits in this category. My smoke wasn't caused by an electrical fire; you can see a burning pine cone on the vacuum's exhaust for a few seconds in the beginning.

[Michael Aivaliotis]

VCRs, the end of an era.

[crelf]

QUOTE (jcarmody @ Dec 19 2008, 08:58 PM)

...you can see a burning pine cone on the vacuum's exhaust for a few seconds in the beginning.

Did I hear someone in the background say "is that what it's suppoed to do?"

QUOTE (Michael_Aivaliotis @ Dec 19 2008, 09:57 PM)

VCRs,

the end of an era

.

Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww...

[BobHamburger]

The reason that all electronic devices work in the first place is that they contain magic smoke. The magic smoke makes everything function. We know that this theory is correct, because when the magic smoke escapes, the device doesn't work any more.

[Francois Normandin]

QUOTE (BobHamburger @ Dec 21 2008, 09:19 AM)

The reason that all electronic devices work in the first place is that they contain magic smoke. The magic smoke makes everything function. We know that this theory is correct, because when the magic smoke escapes, the device doesn't work any more.

And because of the second law of thermodynamics, it costs more energy to try to put back the magic smoke inside than to just buy a new one...