On 13/03/2011 4:28 PM, Clifford Heath wrote:
Really, with so many rather good glass TVs on the nature strip, are you
sure it's worth the trouble?

Probably not, particulary as I've identified a dud transistor that is
moderately expensive to source, and whose failure may only be a symptom.
If the problem had been a failed electrolytic capacitor that I could get
from my local electronics shop, then it would have been worth having a
go at fixing it. As things stand, it's destined for the tip (or
something - see below).

But we don't get good glass TVs on the nature strip, at least not in my
suburb. The council banned getting rid of them that way (i.e. leaving
them out on an official council cleanup day), with the result that one
cannot simply go out on such a day, and pick up a TV whose only sin is
that it isn't wide-screen.

Sylvia.