A pleading request to manufacturers of amplifiers and preamplifiers.


 At this time I would like to make a pleading request to manufacturers of audio electronics.  Please in the name of all that is holy stop putting sharp heatsinks on the outside of your devices. In the decades that I have been involved in this hobby the collected skin that has been carved from my toes, ankles, fingers, hands, wrists, forearms, etc. is equal to the combined weight of a professional football team. The blood I have lost could have saved the lives of 100 hemophiliacs. I have come to fear my own devices as if they were the vampires or werewolves of legends. Can you not round the edges, put covers over them or locate them inside the case? Freddie Krueger has not inflicted as much carnage as the combined horror of all this equipment. The combination of 50 lbs. of transformer weight and 6 square feet of rabid heatsink is a guarantee of laceration when moving any of these monsters. So if anyone out there can hear me I am begging, pleading, will pay for, changes to this abominable practice of covering your products with ravening metal blades lusting after our flesh.Thank you.
shashanka

Showing 2 responses by oldhvymec

I double that one Erik, but in a nice way also.. LOL clumsy OAF.  Just kidding, the OAF part.. :-)

I’m thinkin’ watch the sauce consumption too.  You aren’t mustering up the gumption by consuming a little liquid courage are you.. the two don’t mix..

Blown disk are part of the trade, never met a mechanic that didn’t wind up with at least two or three. The rest were in TOTAL denial, or change trades before a permanent fusions occur naturally or by doctors.. Me I have 3 in the lower 2 in my neck..

200 lb amps, ONE HANDED..No problem..in my hayday..

JUST FOR YOU WORLD.. Where’s my Roller? Chauffeur Please...
A life of prize fighting injuries with no prize, YUP.. Just for the love of it..
The love of Pete...

Regards
Mercy with kids around you couldn't stay out of the emergency with that one. I can't EVER remember getting cut. I'm not kidding either.

Mechanics and cuts go together BUT dash work was a killer for me when my forearms would get to big.. Go get the scrawny apprentice. Every HD mechanic was the same. Get the runt... See if you can fish that hose through there, pull back a bloody stump, through his coveralls.  Apprenticeships are tough... :-)

Regards