Do you love your computer? This guy blows into his computer! - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: blueskull
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: July 28, 2018, 08:06:44 am
content: Louis' videos can be disgusting, very disgusting...

author: fonograph
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: July 28, 2018, 08:36:45 am
content: Dafuq did I just saw

author: Terry01
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: July 28, 2018, 09:43:54 am
content: I think that may have just scarred me for life! I don't know if i will ever be able to open another device that I haven't owned from new and even then......whoa that was one scary vid my friend!

author: bd139
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 28, 2018, 09:54:11 am
content: I’ve seen some shit in my time but that’s a new one.Back in 2004 I fixed a Korg Trinity synthesiser that had a black screen. I had to bash the whole thing out in the garden for half an hour to get all the wacky backy out. Then the guy admitted that he had spilled his bong in it. Fortunately a couple of burned up traces which were easy to jump with some kynar. I was probably getting high fixing it.But he didn’t stick his dick in it!

author: chris_leyson
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 28, 2018, 11:04:21 am
content: That's really disturbing. I can't unsee that now, WTF. It's not often you find things that shouldn't be there.Long time ago I used to help a guy in an TV repair shop just to make a bit of cash on a Saturday. One day an old BW TV came in, customer complaining about line whistle. Plug TV in, wow that is quite loud, take the back off and spot something strange about the LOPT, there is half of a plastic knife jammed in between the primary winding and the core, so I pull it out and it's still got "brown sauce" on it, WTF, at least that's what I assume it was.

author: Terry01
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: July 28, 2018, 01:12:33 pm
content: Quote from: chris_leyson on July 28, 2018, 11:04:21 amLOL....too funny!

author: MadTux
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: July 28, 2018, 04:40:41 pm
content: I guess after all those "macbook with jizz in it" comments by Louis, it was only a matter of time until someone (4chan?) would send in a macbook that is really full of it. Good thing he wears gloves, that thing is absolutely disgusting

author: bd139
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 28, 2018, 04:56:39 pm
content: I was speaking to someone a few mins ago who does laptop repairs and gave them this link and this is apparently not that uncommon. They use gloves when handling all machines that come in and refuse perhaps 20% of them as "go and clean it first you sick bastard". He had one brought in that the owner's dog had puked on.

author: Halcyon
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: July 29, 2018, 01:21:12 am
content: When I was a teenager, I worked for an internet service provider that also provided PC repair services to their customers. I think the worst are computers that are used by smokers. They absolutely stink and the amount of ash and dust that gets sucked in through the vent holes is phenomenal. I don't know how some people can live amongst their own filth.If you're pulling apart phones or computers belonging to people you don't know,alwayswear gloves! Sometimes two layers.

author: GreyWoolfe
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: July 29, 2018, 02:19:28 am
content: Between 1999 and 2004, I worked for a company that was a Dell service provider, among others. I was doing in home/office warranty repair and set up of all things Dell. This didn't happen to me, thankfully, but to another tech. He went on a service call on a 2 week old $2K custom computer that wouldn't power on. The owner was a student who had a couple of student roommates. He arrived on site, explained why he was there and found out that the owner wasn't on hand but he was shown to the computer by the roommates who were snickering and laughing. He opened the computer and found that one or the other or both of the pillocks had shat into the computer. Obviously the Neanderthals thought that was hysterical. He called Dell tier 2 and they told him to leave and that the warranty was voided. When he explained to the Neanderthals what Dell said and to convey the message to the owner, he said that they stopped laughing and turned a whiter shade of pale. The universe is definitely winning the war to build better idiots.Quote from: Halcyon on July 29, 2018, 01:21:12 amYes indeed, smokers computers are absolutely vile. Thankfully, they weren't a large percentage of the 1,000's of computers I repaired while I worked for the company. The dirtiest repairs for me were fixing Okidata dot matrix printers at Rinker Concrete. By the time I left, I was as covered in concrete dust as the printers. I learned to make them the last call of the day so I could just go home and shower. I never saw dead rodents or dead snakes caught up in fans. Saw plenty of cockroaches, though. Mostly dead. Also, I never saw them in laptops, just in tower computers. The funniest I ran into was a call on a laptop for a melted spot on a screen. The owner had the gold warranty so it was a warranty repair. I get there and look at the screen and it looks funny but not melted. An alcohol wipe removed the dried evidence of a rather enthusiastic sneeze. There was much embarrassment on the part of the owner.My personal worst moment was a warranty repair on a Lexmark desktop laser printer. No critters or cigarette smoke. It belonged to a woman at the time who had to be in her 70's who was wearing a robe when she answered the door. She sat in front of me and would ask questions and, of course, I would politely look up to answer her and unfortunately it became all to apparent as we went on that she was unable to keep her robe closed and was sans clothing under it. Uncomfortable as that was, I completed the repair and after I left, I complained to Lexmark who promptly voided her warranty.

author: amyk
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 29, 2018, 02:25:38 am
content: Quote from: Halcyon on July 29, 2018, 01:21:12 amDon't forget a respirator, and a big bottle of isopropanol.

author: Halcyon
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: July 29, 2018, 03:01:39 am
content: Quote from: GreyWoolfe on July 29, 2018, 02:19:28 amI've seen a dead mouse inside a case (just a small one, it snuck in through an uncovered I/O card slot) and a dead snake inside an ATX power supply.