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I won't mention his name, but there is an amplifier "Tech" on YouTube who constantly smokes while blowing smoke directly in the area and directly into the equipment itself. You might think he would intentionally put that stogie down until he at least finishes the clip.
But noooooooo!!!!
And to top it off in more than one clip I noticed an open can of Coca-Cola standing proudly next to an open amplifier that he was working on. And in another an uncapped bottle of spring water. I never smoked around my own equipment. I stopped smoking several years ago, but even when I did smoke I never smoked inside my home never the less around my equipment. We have seen the effects cigarette smoke takes on equipment after years and years of smoking around it. I'm sure many of us have purchased something out of ham fest or eBay that was 32-50 years old and was owned by someone who enjoyed kicking his feet up while chain-smoking, and making contacts. I've never had the bad luck to purchase anything Hobby related that's been smoked around, but I have seen them, and it's just a nasty nasty mess. Everyone has the right to smoke around their own equipment. But when you're doing repairs for money you should reconsider your habits while working on that equipment. I would be pissed off to send an amplifier out to somebody and have it come back smelling like cigarette smoke WTF! 73

<blockquote data-quote="Sonar" data-source="post: 608135" data-attributes="member: 47153">I won&#039;t mention his name, but there is an amplifier &quot;Tech&quot; on YouTube who constantly smokes while blowing smoke directly in the area and directly into the equipment itself. You might think he would intentionally put that stogie down until he at least finishes the clip.But noooooooo!!!! And to top it off in more than one clip I noticed an open can of Coca-Cola standing proudly next to an open amplifier that he was working on. And in another an uncapped bottle of spring water. I never smoked around my own equipment. I stopped smoking several years ago, but even when I did smoke I never smoked inside my home never the less around my equipment. We have seen the effects cigarette smoke takes on equipment after years and years of smoking around it. I&#039;m sure many of us have purchased something out of ham fest or eBay that was 32-50 years old and was owned by someone who enjoyed kicking his feet up while chain-smoking, and making contacts. I&#039;ve never had the bad luck to purchase anything Hobby related that&#039;s been smoked around, but I have seen them, and it&#039;s just a nasty nasty mess. Everyone has the right to smoke around their own equipment. But when you&#039;re doing repairs for money you should reconsider your habits while working on that equipment. I would be pissed off to send an amplifier out to somebody and have it come back smelling like cigarette smoke WTF! 73</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Sonar, post: 608135, member: 47153"] [SIZE=16px][/SIZE] I won't mention his name, but there is an amplifier "Tech" on YouTube who constantly smokes while blowing smoke directly in the area and directly into the equipment itself. You might think he would intentionally put that stogie down until he at least finishes the clip. But noooooooo!!!! And to top it off in more than one clip I noticed an open can of Coca-Cola standing proudly next to an open amplifier that he was working on. And in another an uncapped bottle of spring water. I never smoked around my own equipment. I stopped smoking several years ago, but even when I did smoke I never smoked inside my home never the less around my equipment. We have seen the effects cigarette smoke takes on equipment after years and years of smoking around it. I'm sure many of us have purchased something out of ham fest or eBay that was 32-50 years old and was owned by someone who enjoyed kicking his feet up while chain-smoking, and making[SIZE=16px] contacts. I've never had the bad luck to purchase anything Hobby related that's been smoked around, but I have seen them, and it's just a nasty nasty mess. Everyone has the right to smoke around their own equipment. But when you're doing repairs for money you should reconsider your habits while working on that equipment. I would be pissed off to send an amplifier out to somebody and have it come back smelling like cigarette smoke WTF! 73[/SIZE] [/QUOTE]

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