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When wives appreciate our hobbies.

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patrickl:
It depends on what skill one had before though. I have been fixing electronics since I was 13. Mainly because I got my first computer then (Sinclair ZX Spectrum) and it kept breaking down. Back then you needed to built everyting you wanted to add to it yourself (floppy drive interface, scanner, software dump interface).

The Arcade building hobby thing has helped me to learn woodworking though.

shardian:

--- Quote from: patrickl on June 02, 2007, 10:39:12 am ---The Arcade building hobby thing has helped me to learn woodworking though.

--- End quote ---

Woodworking? Check.
My "other" appreciative project:

shorthair:
Nice.

patrickl:
Yeah, nice.

knave:
My story is not nearly so impressive but my wife did like it.  This whole Arcade thing had gotten me to pick up a soldering iron and I was practicing on old motherboards I had lying around.

Her cell phone car charger had shorted at the base of the plug, so I took it apart, found the short, cliped about a half inch off the wire (the short) and re-soldered it back onto the board.  I thin used a few pieces of heat shrink tubing to stiffen up the joint so it won't break again.

Plugged it in and it worked great. I might have tossed it before...

Funny thing is that it was my wife who took electronics in high school not me.  So she could have probably done it too...(but it was husbandly for me to fix it for her.)

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