TV repair.....

[bigduke6]

The problems start when you're doing mechanical stuff where something is a roll-sealed unit - such as an expensive but internally simple internal fault with a alternator or window winder motor. Plug in electronic units are simplicity itself - if you can get them. Just my take on these things

So true Peter, but in most households these days anything that stops or needs repair normally ends up at the tip or recycling centre as they are now called, the other problem is the diagnostics of certain things, the TV seemed straight forward after a lot of searching (you tube) and reading a few snippets. Similar to the sealed unit you mention, the two things on the PCB that failed are now obsolete which is a ball ache as these are probably the easiest bits to change on the whole board apart from the capacitors.............

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[Peter Laidler]

In my expensive alternator headache it was a clunky end bearing. Mind you, getting the two halves of the casing apart wasn't that easy either! The bearings were standard sizes but roll sealed in. Once you machine away the rolled-over seal there was nothing to prevent the new bearings from coming out. So I had to ........ anyway, after the machined retainer plate and 3x new threaded holes and...... and.... I considered that I'd have been better off buying a new one! There's no exchange units anymore, like the old LUCAS B90 exchange unit scheme! The good news is that the rebuilt unit was still going strong when I sold the 16 valve Golf GTi a cuple of years later. Incidentally, it was my old Army pal, Bruce Gorton from Invercargill who talked me through how to do the alternator fix. I repeated the same trick in a later VW winder motor but used bronze bushes.

I'm sure a lot of these fixes will die out with our (?) generation. Any Kiwis remember Bruce Gorton. Ans wile we're here, remember KimW another ex RNZEME forumer. Great bloke

[HOOKED ON HISTORY]

Designed obsolescence overcome! Outstanding.

[CINDERS]

I used allot of "The Farmers Friend" to hold things together on a 33,000 acre property I was a farm hand on until the correct part could be sourced the farm being in the sticks so to speak.

[bigduke6]

Yes good work Bigduke, many would have said to just bin it and buy another. But now you have the satisfaction of repairing it yourself, saving some cash and preventing another item of e waste going to landfill.

Although my repair has done the job, its a case of how long the rest holds out, It all seemed ok on the first start up but seems to struggle in the first minute when its switched on from stand by, which I'm sure is a capacitor on the way out...... don't know if this is on the power board and was due to the old board when it went pop, or something on the replacement board. Other than that works fine when switched on/off from the mains.

Think its psycological more than anything, it works but don't watch a lot, it doesn't work but want to watch something....

Always a catch 22 on stuff like this, as you have to balance all the options etc, at the time I didn't have the cash to go out and buy a replacement...... so that was the decisive factor.
Have been looking at prices since Black Friday....... Was in Aldi last night and noticed the Smart TV's they have just got in, Freeview, HD and 4K..... £329.

I remember a few years ago, the washing machine gradually got worse and sounded like a jet taking off so decided to have a look at the bearings etc, it was beond economic repair, at the time there was a special offer on and a new machine was about £60 more than the total of the parts I needed.

The previous one before that was from when I was living the single life , I'd brought that back from deaths door many times, a basic machine with two inlets for the Hot and Cold...... mostly run on cold..... before I installed central heating.

[browningautorifle]

TV repair

12 Gauge pump...at 10 yards.

[bigduke6]

12 Gauge pump...at 10 yards.

Probably next time Jim, but I'll be a bit more sporting .........and give it 20 yds

[browningautorifle]

Ok but use buckshot...

[TDH]

I once heard someone mention computers and firearms in the same sentence and I thought it to e a lovely idea. Add cell phones as well. I wonder how they would fly out of a bird thrower.

[browningautorifle]

I wonder how they would fly out of a bird thrower.

All clumsy and end over end like...