TV repair.....

[HOOKED ON HISTORY]

Designed obsolescence overcome! Outstanding.

[Milsurf]

I'm going to call you the next time my 1975 RCA Victor all tube beast quits ...

I've been waiting for years for my (1980s?) KTV color TV with 13 inch CRT to crap out so I can buy a flat screen, but it refuses to die. I have it over my computer monitor to compete for my attention. Resolution is poor but color is great. Have to pass the digital satellite signal through an old Sylvania VCR to convert it to analog so the KTV comprehends. Gotta respect a survivor, will keep feeding it electrons until it passes on from natural causes.

[Kiwisteve]

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.

Peter, I hope Kiwi ingenuity won't disappear anytime soon. It's something we used to share with a number of other societies where spare parts are/were either expensive, hard to find or would take along time to arrive and necessity being the mother of invention and all that, we learnt to make do. I guess it's what is commonly called the No 8 wire mentality.

[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...