"stuart noble" wrote in message
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seems a shame to throw out something that complex for the
sake of a 10p component and a few minutes soldering.

My local repair shop has a pile of 28" tvs for sale at £20 each. That's
what they retail for when they're working.

Struth. I think it cost about £800 and that was when £800 was actually worth
£800 not the £400 it would be worth now. I remember getting it all wired up
the first time, turning it up full and rattling all the pictures off the
walls and thinking this is some telly. It has more grunt than my HiFi
system. So now it's basically scrap. I hate scrapping things. I've spent
most of my life repairing things, engines basically, and scrapping something
that almost works doesn't sit right. If I have one complaint about it it's I
can't lift the bloody thing. It weighs a ton. Well I can just about lift it
but it's horribly imbalanced. All the weight is on one side, the screen
basically, and just getting it into the car to take it somewhere to be fixed
is enough of a struggle. I guess I'll leave it sat where it is until digital
tellies come in and if no one can help before then it'll get chucked.
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Dave Baker