Dropped your lap-top? All may not be lost!

Originally posted by Velns
How did you know it was the brushes?.

elementary my dear watson, the machine was spinning, but intermittently, therefore it could not have been the electronic console, for a breakdown would have resulted in a complete malfunction, all other processes would have resulted in a complete malfunction, for example, if the belts had snapped, nothing would turn, so understanding that probably some intermittent contact was being made between the brushes and the commutator of the motor, it could only have been the carbon brushes, because all other parts were sound.

Originally posted by robbie carrobie
elementary my dear watson, the machine was spinning, but intermittently, therefore it could not have been the electronic console, for a breakdown would have resulted in a complete malfunction, all other processes would have resulted in a complete malfunction, for example, if the belts had snapped, nothing would turn, so understanding that probably so ...[text shortened]... or of the motor, it could only have been the carbon brushes, because all other parts were sound.

Outstanding Holmes!

Are you an engineer by trade?

Originally posted by Velns
Outstanding Holmes!

Are you an engineer by trade?

I think he can, I think he can.

Originally posted by Velns
Outstanding Holmes!

Are you an engineer by trade?

nah, nothing quite so glamorous im afraid! although i did enjoy engineering science at school, way more than physics.