What was you most expensive accidental damage?


I have read many claims by members that they accidently damaged their multi-thousand dollar cartridge styli by improper handling. I have blown out a few low power handling speakers with high powered amps. Several members claim that their cats have clawed the speaker cones to shreds. Have you experianced any 1) blown amplifier output transistors by accidently shorting the speaker wires. 2) Extra loud turn on thumps blowing out speakers 3)Putting the wrong tube in tube socket destroying the tube 4) leaving tube equipment so longthat the capacitors melt. 5)Electrical fires from AC shorts?
mint604
I learned that you cant have 8ft acoustats panels hanging out the back of chevette hatchback flapping in the breeze....and expect them to play when you get home :-)
chazzbo,i never took that fool to court infact i never even waited for the cops to come i just split & went on home,even though i wanted more than anything to rip that fool out of his car & do some very bad things to him i was better off just walking away.

at that time i wasnt allowed in or around bars & by me just being there it woulda cost me my freedom so i just ate it & told myself thats what i got for being somewhere i wasnt supposed to be in the first place,something i found out very early in life is that revenge can & will end up costing people their freedom,it did me.

what bummed me out more than loosing my scooter was that by me not calling the cops this druken fool was able to drive home so hammered that he passed out on top of my bike,i still wonder if he hurt anybody on his way home.

mike.
a friend of mine was selling audio equipment from his house. he he was delivering a pair of vandersteen 2c's. they were mounted on stands with spikes. i remarked that he needed a hand truck. He replied he just bought one and went to get it. He loaded the vandys on the hand truck. as he approached the car the vandys fell off the hand truck and scratched the door all way down the side of the a brand new car.
mint , believe me i wanted to do a lot more than just poke pencils in that mother#$%!@#s ears but the thought of waking up in a cell for the next 10 years fighting over a doughnut with a cell mate named bubba gave me a quick reality check.