Hi,
Not accidents of mine, but I once turned up to a session on a monday morning, where a large coca-cola had been poured over the last 8 channels of a soundtracs Jade( or inline?) last thing friday night without being cleaned up. There was a dreadful hum on the mixbus. When we eventually worked out which channels were faulty( not apparent externally), the pcb tracks had been dissolved away completely!
Also an SSL that someone had spilt MacDonald's "milkshake" over. With the radiant heat. it had set as hard as concrete! The tech tried chipping it off, smashing switches and pots, and the paint came off. Just think what it does to your insides . . . .
There was also the mystery of holes punched in the bass-drivers of the 209 questeds at Zomba This happened several times, and everyone suspected a disgruntled employee, til someone realised the cleaner was doing it with the mop-end whilst cleaning the floor . . .
My worst was whilst wiring up a patchbay for a dear friend, who had just had a huge and very expensive carpet fitted in her open-plan flat. Her studio set-up was right in the middle, and my soldering iron fell out of its holder, and burned right through the carpet, exactly where her chair went, and in direct view . . . . So ashamed . . . .
loads of shocks, worst in a Spanish studio, installing a pair of Questeds. I reached behind the rack to plug something into the crossover. WHAM! blew me clean backwards. When I had a look, all the outboard mainsleads were twisted together, and wrapped with tape, which had come off . . . . ANd this was in a brand new SSL studio with the largest E series I had seen to date . . . . Half an hour later, one of the workman was taken off to hospital, having suffered the effects of using a drill OUTSIDE in a torrential downpour. I couldn't get away fast enough.
ANdyP