Beowulf wrote:
On Fri, 28 Apr 2006 19:09:02 -0600, Ken G. inscribed to the world:
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Where do you live ? my brother is called Tv Doctor .

Duluth, Minnesota USA. if I have a friend help me, do you think we
could
safely remove the front screen without a zillion parts falling out
or
whateer? Looks to be a dozen or so screws holding the front cover
over the
screen, I should think that could be removed to allow the screen to
be
removed and examined?

1: On our Samsung (50") the lamp type is on a label on the back left. I
have one in the closet for $115. The 50" is a 100 watt unit and IIRC,
the 61" is a 120 watter. Might be a bit more but I doubt $600.

2: I bought the service manual for ours from Samsung for $20. It came
as a 21 Mbyte .PDF on a CD. Neat thing is you can search in a .PDF. You
have to READ a paper manual. It has descriptions and photos of how to
take it apart and what to do and what NOT to do.

3: FWIW, ours has about 4600 hrs (last I checked last month was 4386)
and going strong. I Know its only one set but Samsung claims 8000 hrs
average.

4: Leonard, you must have some good ideas on this.

Good luck on your adventure.

GG