I don`t care what you all say. I will stand by what I have said right
from the begining. When you got people coming on this forum and are
directed right to the problem and told what to look for and how to
look for it like a simple tuner or telling them where to look for a
horizontal output in plain enmglish then they shouldn`t be taking
the back off of any set and trying to fix it. There are many write
ups on the net to be able to give these people the fundamentals of
basic electronics and I would think that they should be reading that
before they attempt to open a set up and working on it or atleast go
to work at the repairshop in there spare time to learn. As for the
169 chassis it is a bitch to work on it if you don`t understand it.
Beleive me we all had a problem with those chassis untill we got to
know them and sending someone in to fix this chassis not knowing what
to look for is just asking for trouble. As for someone saying about
tips are all over the internet then I guess you guys don`t do much
trouble shooting besides doing a google search hoping to come up with
the fix or hoping that someone on one of these forums would have the
fix for you. What did you all do before there was internet with all
these resources?

tvguy wrote:

I don`t care what you all say. I will stand by what I have said right
from the begining. When you got people coming on this forum and are
directed right to the problem and told what to look for and how to
look for it like a simple tuner or telling them where to look for a
horizontal output in plain enmglish then they shouldn`t be taking
the back off of any set and trying to fix it. There are many write
ups on the net to be able to give these people the fundamentals of
basic electronics and I would think that they should be reading that
before they attempt to open a set up and working on it or atleast go
to work at the repairshop in there spare time to learn. As for the
169 chassis it is a bitch to work on it if you don`t understand it.
Beleive me we all had a problem with those chassis untill we got to
know them and sending someone in to fix this chassis not knowing what
to look for is just asking for trouble. As for someone saying about
tips are all over the internet then I guess you guys don`t do much
trouble shooting besides doing a google search hoping to come up with
the fix or hoping that someone on one of these forums would have the
fix for you. What did you all do before there was internet with all
these resources?


I was a TV tech, starting 40 years ago. Some shops traded
information, and some didn't. We would loan each other service manuals,
loan each other parts that were not in stock at the local parts house,
and sometimes we loaned out test equipment. The ones who did this made
more money than the shops that didn't help other shops. Also, we sold a
LOT of parts over the counter for TVs, Radios, Audio equipment, and we
would special order any part someone requested, as long as we knew where
to get it, and they paid a reasonable deposit.

When shop started to die off, the ones who had your attitude were the
first to die.

I was 13 when I started working part time in a TV shop, after bugging
the owner and tech with questions for a couple years, and buying parts
from them. Yes, I was one of those DIYer's that you despise. Then I was
drafted in '72 and tested out of a three year electronics school to
become a broadcast engineer. After I got my honorable discharge, I went
back to TV repair for two more years, then started my own company to
repair school equipment, two way radios, high power guitar amps, and
industrial electronics. Later, I was an engineer at two more TV
stations, and did consulting work for a number of AM and FM radio
stations. My last job before becoming 100% disabled I worked on high
ticket Telemetry equipment in the US $20,000 to $80,000 per radio
range. I worked on NOAA's new ground station that is at Wallop's
Island, Virginia at the factory, as well as a KU band communications
system that is a permanent part of the International Space Station.
When you see the NOAA weather satellite photos, they come through
equipment that I built. I have shared knowledge with others every place
I have ever worked. The other techs would come to me when they had a
problem and the design engineers wouldn't answer them quick enough. I
had about 100 databooks on shelves by my bench, and every Datasheet for
every IC used in the $80,000 radios in the computer on one of my
benches. Most techs used half of an 8 foot bench. I had three benches,
because I did a wider variety of boards and modules than anyone else in
the plant. The goal of a good tech is to become an even better tech.
My goal was to be the best tech, any place that I worked.

You have some severe anti-social issues, and a paranoid outlook on
life. It will kill you, if you let it. As far as the DIY crowd, isn't
it better to point out the dangers before they tear something apart, or
would you rather everyone ignore them and let them die? You know that
they are going to try to fix it, either way.


--
Service to my country? Been there, Done that, and I've got my DD214 to
prove it.
Member of DAV #85.

Michael A. Terrell
Central Florida

Time for you tvguy to get a grip and get a real life.

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Spewed nonsense