FE. Can you tell us what happened on that flight in to Hong-Kong please? You have whetted our curiosity.

I used to earn myself "beer" money buying/selling electrical items.I bought a 12V mobile CB radio very cheaply,& sold it on for a small profit only for the new owner to return a little while later insisting I'd sold him a dud unit.I was highly amused by his explanation of how he'd got home,plugged it in & it hadnt worked.When I removed the cover,there was a hole the size of a 50p piece in the circuit board as 240V mains doesnt make 12V equipment function to well.

I also bought a colour TV that worked,but the picture was poor as the various "guns" were slightly out of alignment,so whipped off the back of the TV & could see three little adjusters on the circuit board attached to the back of the tube and proceeded to twiddle each adjuster whilst watching the picture.This meant using an outstretched arm so was very careful to look where my hand was heading before looking at the picture as the rear of a TV (CRT) carries lethal voltages,but constantly twisting about was starting to strain my neck so I stupidly tried to "feel" my way to the adjuster.The resulting shock from touching the rear of the tube itself threw me from one side of the room to the other whilst also cartwheeling & my head was stopped dead by the doorframe.I had a lump on my head similar to a cartoon character (egg shaped) and have never worked on a TV since.That TV was unplugged,& taken to the dump.