Computer repair with a M39

[john_the_plinker]

Had an old computer that was giving me fits so I fixed it.







What I found after picking up parts and knocking them out of trees.

Kind of hard to see, but the 1/4" steel plate it was sitting on is now a soup bowl.

[desdem12]

[Armidaios]

As an IT professional I am horrified at your repair technique.

[qz2026]

[bunkysdad]

Dang, I think Junk Yard Dog has been looking to trade a Finn M39 for one just like that. Too bad you obliterated it like that!:P

[m1guy]

That is my kind of recycling. It also works well on other appliances.

I say, if its a piece of junk and about to go to the garbage anyway, you might as well get some fun out of it.

And, it shows how a century-old firearm can be a lot more reliable than a piece of plastic electronic hardware.

[davesstuff1]

[TopperT]

[jimpierce7]

heheheheehhehe

[JoeR]

I have 2 laptops that are awaiting some .40 holes when it warms up here in the land of high taxes.

[BubbaDX]

I've worked on a couple PC's that I would have loved to do this to.

[Artemus]

Wait a minute...I saw that movie, except it was a copy machine..?

[joe7170]

This thread reminds me of zeebill

[Junk Yard Dog]

[Ironnewt]

.45 ACP Hardball works wonders on them as well.

[Fred_G]

I have an old computer I would love to 'execute'. Just don't have a place to shoot like that. Looks like you 'fixed it'.

[ModelAUZI]

Looks ok to me. Have you turned it on yet?

[bws]

I wonder how many 3.5" hard drives one could shoot through, if they were stacked together, 1 right after another? I recall someone doing that with VHS tapes and an AR-15 (I think) and it was pretty sweet. However, as a long time IT professional, I recall the day I snapped on my cell phone and asked the driver of an M1-A2 Abrams to drive over it. He did me one better, I placed it under one of the tread pads and he moved the vehicle forward until the phone was directly under the middle of the track, then he locked that track and spun around a couple of times. I swept up what was left and mailed it back to AT&T. In my entire career, that has to be simply the most satisfying thing I've ever done, except for maybe a 21" Sony Trinitron monitor that "mysteriously" slide off the back of my cushman while I was hauling it to p.i.t.a individual who requested it.

Good times... Good times...

[JRG]

Plug it in...it may still work!

I did the same with an old VCR.

[No_0ne]

As an IT professional I am horrified at your repair technique.

I have wanted to do that to many computers, including this one...