Designs we love to hate!

[Electronic M]

Sick of that PCB that you have to remove from the chassis to work on? Disintegrated yoke cover creating a shock hazard? That series string chassis a little too hot for you? Well, you've come to the right place to gripe about it!

In all the time I've been here I've never seen a thread on this topic despite many threads dedicated to other topics containing discussions of bad designs...So I made this thread.

"So what makes you come up with this now?", you ask. Well...Last night I was up obscenely late working on my Silvertone roundy, and things were not going well.... The set needed a convergence adjustment, and I was trying to find the cause of slow intermittent loss of luminance followed by picture. The intermittent was being less cooperative then I wanted so I was waiting it out doing the convergence.
To make a long story short one of the blasted static convergence magnets fell out, and disappeared!



This convergence yoke is a BAD design IMHO. The white plastic static adjusters can be removed and lost (though that has never been a problem for me), the black magnets in those adjusters are not secured in by anything other then pressure of the plastic, and get lost very easily (this is not the first time they have disappeared! ). On top of that the brass clamps those adjusters slide in are mounted to the coils at least on one of their two mounting points with TAPE!...And it predictably gets old and breaks turning the mount into a spring and making the adjuster move as soon as you let go of it... And lastly the brass springs that make it stay put on the neck some times go shooting off when the cover is moved.

I'm so fed up with it that if I had one of the newer all plastic ones laying around I'd switch to that, originality be damned!

So what designs make you want to kick someones but?