See the Marlboro Pack ?
See the nice gold paint on the Marlboro pack?
Remember how Michael, in a moment of utter stupidity, decided to
use the pack of Marlboros to BLOCK OPEN THE HIGH VOLTAGE INTERLOCK ?
Can you imagine the power supply coming to life, charging up all those nice big PCB-laden filter capacitors, until the voltage rose so high it punctured the box of Marlboros
?
Imagine 40 mfd. at 2600 volts blasting through the box, the foil, and everything else in the way. Including the tobacco, and papers, and even the filters ?
You can now appreciate the explosion, and why, after a good hour cleaning all the debris and crap out of the transmitter, I found MYSELF behind the R.C.A., with my eyes wide open, watching for the elusive little 'blue arc'....
