Admissions of Idiocy
Posted by: Alex S. on 07 December 2001
Looking at the thread on speaker direction got me thinking about doing wrong stuff in ignorance.
Here's 2 of mine:
Having the left and right channels reversed on the back of the 250 since logic tells you to connect the speaker cable that way.
Not knowing for 3 months that if I kept my finger on the Lingo button for long enough the deck would start going round at 45rpm. (Purchased without instructions).
My FEP gathering folly involved several interludes of mono listening to stereo records.
Alex
My worst to date was probably purchasing a new cartridge and then immediately dropping it while taking it out of the box. Of course it landed stylus first, bending the cantilever at 90 degrees 
Regards
Steve