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mercury

Please do not place the driver under easy pressure
« on: 12 July, 2011, 11:37:43 pm »
Bought a Sumvision USB 2.0 CD/DVD drive enclosure. It converts a laptop optical drive to USB. The instruction book says, in glorious fractured English:
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Step 1: Turn the product over so its lower panel is facing up. Slide the panel oof.
Step 2: Remove the lower panel and the spacer block.
Step 3: Connect the slimline drive port to the SATA interface on tardhe circunit board. Please take note of the alignment of the interface.

I love the idea of sliding a panel oof. What a great new way to spell the word "the". A circunit board sounds much more fun than a plain old circuit board. And my favourite:

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5. Do not place the drive close to any magnetic object.
6. Please put the drive on flat desktop. Do not place it on any unstable object.
7. Please do not place the driver under easy pressure to guarantee the normal running of drive.

5 and 6 I can understand. What does 7 mean?
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Cudzoziemiec

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Re: Please do not place the driver under easy pressure
« Reply #1 on: 12 July, 2011, 11:42:40 pm »
I'd guess it means "light pressure", so it's saying that even light pressure can affect the drive.
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BrianI

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Re: Please do not place the driver under easy pressure
« Reply #2 on: 14 July, 2011, 08:31:13 am »
On the instructions for a cheap set of magnifying lenses on a headband visor.

To tighten the head strap the instruction said:

"Tighten the band until you hear the sound of khaki"

What dose khaki sound like?   ???
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Re: Please do not place the driver under easy pressure
« Reply #3 on: 14 July, 2011, 09:12:11 am »
We had a cheap travel set of Connect Four, which came with spare pieces, "In case any pieces are eaten by the dog or vacuum cleaner"
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PeteB99

Re: Please do not place the driver under easy pressure
« Reply #4 on: 14 July, 2011, 11:27:16 am »
The instructions with a Minoura workshop stand warned me against getting children entangled in the clamp
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pcolbeck

Re: Please do not place the driver under easy pressure
« Reply #5 on: 14 July, 2011, 11:33:15 am »
Quote from: PeteB99 on 14 July, 2011, 11:27:16 am
The instructions with a Minoura workshop stand warned me against getting children entangled in the clamp

That's because you get yourself stuck in an infinite regression. You need a second clamp to stop the child squirming whilst you do up the first then you need a third to hold them whist you do up the second then a fourth ad infinitum and suddenly the child is 21 and has left home and you've lost your job, gone broke  and are in possession of an unfeasaibily large collection of work-stands.
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I think you'll find it's a bit more complicated than that.

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Re: Please do not place the driver under easy pressure
« Reply #6 on: 14 July, 2011, 03:48:56 pm »
Quote from: BrianI on 14 July, 2011, 08:31:13 am
On the instructions for a cheap set of magnifying lenses on a headband visor.

To tighten the head strap the instruction said:

"Tighten the band until you hear the sound of khaki"

What dose khaki sound like?   ???

Ask Ravenbait.
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