While I envy many of the lethargic weekend activities being pursued here; electric chair rides, single malts & Amarula (esp with a splash of Frangelico in coffee) and dabbling in 7.1.3, I'm again compelled to reach for the T10 and a battery operated toy... no, not "that" kinda toy! There's a plate, shaped into a shallow pan of unknown metallurgy about 5" X 7" attached to the inside of the removable cover between viewing windows that I need/want to understand better. It bothered me on discovery and hasn't let up since. Looks out-of-place, cheaply formed and very much an afterthought. Drives me crazy to see all of that precision CNC'd goodness and small custom made housings with integrated heatsinks slathered around inside with a VERY out-of-place looking black-painted piece of thin, hand-formed HVAC sheet metal shaped into a shallow pan with concave backside attached to the inside of the black cover... like a (dare I say it?) shallow drip pan. Yeah, crazy I know! S'why I want another look! Intuitively I thought 'cover' of sorts but for what exactly... errant EMI/RFI, radiant heat etc and why so home-made/DIY and out-of-place looking? And there were two, separated by 15-20mm 'oily' spots in the bottom of it (spooky huh?)... as if some oily substance had dripped into it from above... but what and from where!?! And what's gonna catch that oily substance now that its wall-mounted? See why I HAVE to go back inside? (Rationalization is a wonderful thing!) Takes less time than a bowl of cereal to get in & out of the case if I'm less curious or adversely affected by it today. It's all just too weird to ignore and this time I'll do a much better job of high-res internal topography pics of internal top & bottom so I don't have to rely on rote memory next time something like this comes up after the fact.
If I don't turn this into a project I'll be back to music as fast as you can say Frosted Flakes with toast.
If I don't turn this into a project I'll be back to music as fast as you can say Frosted Flakes with toast.
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