There was a classic instance here in Australia in either ETI, EA or Si C.
Apparently a disgruntled employee in a government or semi govt org [eg CSIRO
?] sent in more than one 'silly' in the name of the technical head of the
section.
The one that comes to mind was a suggestion for mounting toroidal power
transformers.
Instead of a washer on top getting bolted through to the bottom chassis, the
suggestion involved bolting all the way through a low profile chassis OR
adding extra metalwork inside a chassis to supposedly provide extra
screening. The metal bolt would then pass through an upper sheet of metal
and a lower sheet of metal both of which were part of the highly conducting
chassis.
The result is a shorted turn on the transformer.
I can't point to the articles now, but I am sure that a retraction/apology
was printed and IIRC a letter from the 'real' person whose name was attached
to the tip.
John Kaesehagen
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From: "Quixotic Nixotic" <nixci...@jsdesign.co.uk>
To: <neonixie-l@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Friday, February 03, 2012 9:26 PM
Subject: Re: [neonixie-l] Re: Nuts and Volts.
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Nick, there was a tech tips column of some kind in ETI that would give
you a small sum for anything they printed. I have heard that people
spoofed this column with stuff they knew was nonsense just to see if it
would get published and they would get their tenner for doing so.
John S
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