On Mon, 27 Sep 2010 20:09:58 -0400, "Michael A. Terrell"
wrote:


AZ Nomad wrote:

On Mon, 27 Sep 2010 19:54:21 -0400, wrote:
...

If you happen to need a 50 lb tank of gas, or a 30 lb torch, or a 20
lb vacumn up there - get to humpin' it. Then bring it all down again.

And you better get 4 or 5 calls done, minimum, on a slow day.

TV repairmen are wusses.

TV repairmen are extinct. Nobody is going to pay $500 to fix a $500 TV.
There was a while when some shops could stay in business fixing big
screen (40"+) tv's but that was only while such TV's cost $5000. Those
days are pretty much gone.


There are only a couple TV shops left around here, and most of their
work is installing home theaters.

I had a service tech out to work on my 46" plasma set. Panasonic covered it
completely under their warranty, even though it expired a year before (seems
they know they have a power supply problem). The tech had to come from
Columbus GA, so there aren't many around here either, though the service
manager at work has a side business repairing electronics.