On Monday, August 15, 2016 at 3:25:14 PM UTC-4, wrote:

I have seen some really awful soldering. Some of these people should not be techs.

It used to be ham fisted techs, now it's the owner. Twice this year I had to salvage two projection TVs that the customers had tried to repair using a kit bought off line. One was a Mitsubishi xx511 series and the other that Sony with the conv amps on the HV/sweep board. Both were completely botched, the Sony missing a smd resistor. I quoted a price to repair/retrace the boards with no guarantee that the convergence parts they purchased were any good, and made them pay up front before powering them up.

Surprisingly, both worked after repairing the PC damage.