Serious Hardware Issue

[seagoon]

Same as you Bruce, my PC case is about 12 years old but everything in it, is under 2.5 years old.

Cannot afford to buy a new machine every year, so i constantly re-new\upgrade components on a rolling basis.

I can also strip down and re-build a Maybach MD665 prime mover. Hand scrape the crank shaft white metal bearings on various mainline loco classes. Using hand tools, engineers blue and a micrometer. So Otto there is always someone else in this world, that knows more than you, in any given subject. As my poor old late dad used to say. Only a fool or a liar, thinks he knows it all.

I did have to replace my case last year when I updated everything else....the new P/S wouldn't fit in the old one!

Mike...I was an electrical apprentice for 3 years (1964 - 1967) and STILL connect two wires using the Western Union practice taught all those years ago. Some skills never disappear.

[haverfordwest]

I did have to replace my case last year when I updated everything else....the new P/S wouldn't fit in the old one!

Mike...I was an electrical apprentice for 3 years (1964 - 1967) and STILL connect two wires using the Western Union practice taught all those years ago. Some skills never disappear.

Bruce, you need a better tape measure buddy. My box is an old style ATX Tower, so quite large.

I fitted a Zalman 850W PSU in it about 3 years ago, which is quite a big beast. It fitted more by luck than judgement.

Great stuff Bruce, you started learning your trade 3 years before me, my British Rail mechanical apprenticeship was for 5 years.

I had to look up "Western Union" practice, never come across that before, buddy.