DirtyDishSoap wrote:What kind of radio are we talking about here?
The big two-way Ministry of Transportation radio. Or more precisely, the transformer for it.
MTO radios all run on 12-volt DC, so they can be mounted in trucks. When you have a base station in your office, you need a transformer/inverter to change 120-volt AC to 12-volt DC. Our contract is done in 10 days, so we're in the final stages of getting rid of everything. The mechanics have been repurposed as movers, so they're running through the yards throwing all the furniture in the garbage. Yesterday they demanded my parts cabinet, and the radio sat on top of the parts cabinet. They thought I could move it to my desk, but the idiot who installed the tower way back in the day, didn't leave enough antenna wire for the radio to reach my desk.
Anyway, I was trying to figure out a way to mount the radio on the wall, and I had the radio balanced on my knee and the transformer balanced on the light switch while I reached around behind me to get a zip tie and zip tie the transformer to the light switch. Should have had the zip ties ready in my mouth, because when I reached to grab one, the transformer fell off the light switch, bounced off my head, and landed on my hand that was steadying the radio. My head didn't hurt too bad, but I smashed one finger so bad that I thought it was broken, and two others with minor damage.