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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>When I was in VT ops one of the guys owned a plane, and when we
were both working together on an outside broadcast at a horse racing course
where the Jockeys, all flew in, to an adjacent strip we decided to do the same,
but there was a problem getting it started (one of the magnetos)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'>When we arrived on site we were a little late but fortunately
the director was even later, when he walked in he said sorry crew my car would
not start<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>simultaneously the two VT op’s said “yes we had the
same problem with our</span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> aeroplane</span><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'>TrevorB<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'>UK Member <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> quadlist-bounces@quadvideotapegroup.com
[mailto:quadlist-bounces@quadvideotapegroup.com] <b>On Behalf Of </b>georgenann@aol.com<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 06 March 2010 18:49<br>
<b>To:</b> quadlist@quadvideotapegroup.com<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [QuadList] Little more fun<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'>Since the chatter seems to have dwindled somewhat I thought I
might pass on a little more fun in the TV business. I want everyone
to understand that I am not a bad guy, I just love a good gag, even if it is on
me and it is well done.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'>I hope everyone in ops realizes that playing jokes on maint folks
is not considered good taste, except sometimes by maint personnel themselves.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'>One time early in my time in VT Maint, the supervisor told me to
go and fix "VT-5", it won't lock up. I checked all the ops
setups and everything looked OK. So I broke out the schematics and scope,
meter, etc. I dug thru the servo and a couple hours later found there is
supposed to be a voltage feeding one of four delays in the cap servo causing it
to track in either the "Home" track or slip to any of the other heads
for tape sync. I traced this from the "Home" track switch. There was
nothing feeding any of them, so I reached up and turned the "Home"
track switch and found it sitting between track 1 and 2, but the knob had
been reset to track 1.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'>I knew right away I had been had. I switched it back to the
"Home" position, loosened the setscrews in the knob, reset it to the
proper position and tightened the setscrews. I put everything back together,
took a well earned break, had a couple doughnuts some coffee and went back in
the shop where everyone was "Very Busy" and couldn't look at me as
they had their noses buried in books, boards, etc. and I announced I got
"VT 5" working, that I changed the 5U4 in the 135 Volt Power Supply.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'>A number of years later I pulled another one on my fellow maint.
techs. Saturdays were reserved for routine maint. A pair of machines
was taken out of service for that purpose. While the guys on the machine
next to the one I was working on went on a break, I fast forwarded their
tape on to the TU reel, put it on the supply side (inverted) and inverted
the empty reel and put it on the TU side and fast forwarded the tape on the
inverted TU reel. Then I put the TU reel on the supply side and threaded
the machine up and ran it to where it looked like the place they left it.
Now the tape is reversed, the heads are looking at the back of the tape. Nobody
noticed it because we had a number of tape types and I don't think anyone
associated the numbers with wether the shiny side of dull side was the oxide.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'>This really had them going and they were getting a bit angry about
the whole thing, and I was beginning to fear for my life if they found out
about it and blamed me, so when they went to lunch I just took the tape off and
put another proper reel on the machine. I don't remember what I told them
the problem was, but it was almost as bad as the 5U4 in the power supply.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'>I think this would work on the 1" machines also, but I never
tried it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'>There is another joker out there, my good friend Don, from WTVJ,
now Hero in Fla. Don is a pilot as is Lou Bitton, (Mr. Ampex). Don
and I wound up at AVR-2 school together. One day Don suggested we rent a
plane and go flying. Sounded good to me so we did, Don flew and Lou was
co-pilot and I just rode in the back seat.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'>After about an hour or so of just flying around, sightseeing, Don
thought he would give me a demo of just what this plane could do, so he put it
into what felt like a 90 degree nosedive till we almost got to the mountains
around Redwood City, then pulled back on the stick and we were in the
clouds. He did this a few times and the wings were straining up and down
and I was yelling "Don what the %*&# are you doing, and he and Lou
were laughing their heads off, while I was trying to hang on to anything I
could get my hands on. After we landed, the ground never felt so good, and
after I had a chance to change my underwear we laughed it all off.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'>A couple days later Lou asked me if I would like to go for a ride
in his plane. It was an old Piper (I think) tail dragger. It had no
radio or battery. He would pull his car up to it and start it with jumper
cables, then get his car out of the way, then hop in the plane before it took
off by it 'self. I explained to Lou that was the day I had set
aside to rearrange my sock drawer and couldn't make it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'>By the way Lou bought the plane somewhere on the East coast,
perhaps Va. while he was on a teaching assignment. He had just received
his pilot's license. The only way he could get it back to Redwood City was to
fly it there. Not something someone with a brand new license should try,
flying from the East coast to the West coast, over the Rockies, etc. So he did
it any way. Somewhere in the mid west he developed some engine trouble
and landed at a small airport near by. Would you believe there was a meeting
of a flying club of guys with the same type of plane as Lou's?? Well they
fixed his plane up, no charge and got him on his way. Someone was looking out
for him.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>DE, George Keller<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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