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All right, I'll go first on this question then. Yeah, I get some devices, you know, that aren't working and, you know, I'll open them up and they're all surface components. And I haven't successfully isolated the trouble in them. Usually, besides all of those little tiny resistors and capacitors in there, they'll have a few transistors and a chip which is basically, you know, the entire device. And then they'll scratch the numbers off the chip so you can't really identify it. And, you know, to change those components is, it requires tools I don't have. You know, you need the hot air thing that melts the solder, you know, and you have to have the tweezers and a microscope to see, you know, if you were to replace the chip if all of the pins fell in the right place and they have like 50 pins around it. So I've never smashed it like, you know, I'm going to, I'm frustrated enough to take it and put it on the concrete floor in the garage and take a hammer to it. I have, you know, taken it to the garbage and threw it out with extreme prejudice because it wasn't worth it to get, you know, keep it around because it's just, you know, I'm not going to get any further to find out what's wrong with this thing. And I had a machine that needed parts that made cigarettes and they only, the manufacturer only limits certain parts and the parts that went bad in it, I couldn't find anywhere so I ended up throwing that out. You know, not so frustrating. It was, you know, those things I got, I didn't pay for. I took the opportunity to get it and see if there was something I could do with it. You know, I've kind of mastered how to get into them now. You know, some of them, they use different techniques to put them together, hidden screws, screws that you might not have, you know, the correct one because it's special, you know, security things or real weird ones. I did get a set a long time ago that covers about all of them because there's really some strange ones like you have to have a triangle tip on it or one with two prongs and then there's various sizes of those. And that kit kind of covered everything. So I don't have any problem opening them up anymore to look inside to see what's wrong with them or see if there's something. I know what's wrong with it, it doesn't work, you know, to find out why it isn't working. But, you know, I'm kind of cost conscious so, you know, some devices I won't smash to pieces but I will get them out of my sight permanently if it's at all possible. AA4HO run near my Florida back over 2D.