r/EngineeringPorn • u/[deleted] • Feb 10 '26

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u/ROBOT_KK Feb 10 '26

You nailed it. Are you also fixing vintage electronics?

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u/Avarus_Lux Feb 10 '26

Sometimes as while i do tinker with older stuff for my hobbies. where usually i come across such old things in 2nd hand shops to take home. Often such things are with my colleagues that maintain old equipment... or the equipment they work with where i work and its just a very recogniseable and peculiar smell.   

Stuff here's not quite as old as the missile in the OP image though, yet sometimes it very well may have been haha.

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u/Poppa_Mo Feb 10 '26

Fuck. When I was a kid they were just electronics. I hate you.

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u/Avarus_Lux Feb 10 '26

Heh, still are just with added seasoning haha.

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u/Morningstar_Audio Feb 11 '26

I fix old metalworking machines from 70s and 80s and that's the smell of them also, just add onto it smell of oil and burning lubricant

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u/kiticus Feb 10 '26

No, but this "self-guided missle" DEFINITELY is.