IMHO, if its green it ain't food, it's just what food eats. ![Laughing :-DD](https://www.eevblog.com/forum/Smileys/default/smiley_laughing.gif.pagespeed.ce._hfWAz_QHO.gif)
When I was a kid, I was a vegetarian... I decided I didn't want to eat anything with a face. Besides, I loved PBJs. As I grew up, I decided otherwise; I couldn't make a passable lasagna without pork italian sausage, and I missed BLTs.
As a grumpy ol dwagon, I'm more like... "I didn't claw my way to the top of the food chain to eat wabbit food... wabbits MAYBE if there's nothing else, but not wabbit food."
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swmbo once tried to feed me "beans on toast" and claimed it was a real thing back home.
come on......she made that up.....right?
Nope, I used to eat Campbell's pork and beans on white toast as a teenager( over 40 years ago), didn't even heat up the beans, right out of the can. I would put a slice of american cheese on them and put them in the toaster oven until the cheese melted and browned.
Closest I ever came to that was cold spaghetti sandwiches on cold buttered toast... leftover toast was a "thing" in my family; we'd literally make a loaf of bread into buttered toast
on purpose to have leftovers for the rest of the day.
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Well, wait... I take that back... even though I'm a Damn Yankee polock born in new York City (
"NEW YORK CITY!!!" *Cue snorts of disgust* ) I come from Southern heritage; and I do love me some flaky biscuits and black-eyed peas with frizzled ham. That's good for breakfast, or refried over leftover biscuits or cold toast for lunch.
Or not because my oven is broken ![Sad :(](https://www.eevblog.com/forum/Smileys/default/xsad.gif.pagespeed.ic.L3FGyzQrjB.png)
Please don't talk about any food which involves oven cooking as I'm missing it
. New oven on Thursday.
You're an engineer. Stop whining and MacGyver something.
How many PSUs have you got? Or boatanchors?
Reminded me of
LOL... when I was still a young fart, I was always modding things... made a 96V battery pack out of lead-acid alarm batteries to power an electric impact in the boneyard, and made a '78 1-ton Dodge wrecker run on a brand-new '96 fuel-injected engine by pulling the entire wiring harness from the donor truck and melding it into the wrecker's wiring harness. My friends all called me MacGyver; it was a running joke with them to see "What's gonna get Macgyver-fied next!"
Ahhh, memories... I miss the days when I only prostituted my genius for my own purposes...
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You guys haven't lived until you have had a 'pie floater'; a tradition in my state - typically consumed at around 3AM coming home from a night out - still 'motoring' (if you know what I mean). Sold by a mobile food van that only works from 2400 to 0800 Fri and Sat nights
A pastry and meat pie floating in pea soup topped with tomato sauce (ketchup) ![ThumbsUp :-+](https://www.eevblog.com/forum/Smileys/default/icon_smile_thumbsup.gif.pagespeed.ce._JElyJQqdB.gif)
So... it's SUPPOSED to look like a turd floating in a bucket o' barff?
Fucks sake. Never hire an "electrician". Use those TEA skills to do it yourself:
"Loose wire. Put it back on. Oven work! Ug!"
Suspect! So I go a-poking and find this:
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Fucking switch is burned and to fix it they just stuffed it on another pole. Now the thing doesn't work properly apart from on the small case of "oven get hot! Ug!"
You know a shit electrician when they have to go back to the car to get their DMM.
Zero service info available saying what the correct wiring is. Switch is 40 quid which is not end of world. FFFFFS
You Got
Red Greene-ified!!!You probably could fix it by cleaning the contacts on that switch element and then using that pin to trigger whatever random relay you might have lying around. You'd need a rectifier and a ballast resistor in the coil circuit to keep it from buzzing and limit current. Then it'd be
MacGyver-fied! ![Laughing :-DD](https://www.eevblog.com/forum/Smileys/default/smiley_laughing.gif.pagespeed.ce._hfWAz_QHO.gif)
You know, just so you can make lasagna until a new part arrives.
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Have spoken to supplier. They're just going to replace it ![Cheesy :D](https://www.eevblog.com/forum/Smileys/default/xcheesy.gif.pagespeed.ic.KPzuH4J-TG.png)
But where's the FUN in THAT?
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mnem
"If the women don't find you handsome, they should at least find you handy."