geoff wrote:

What do you do - still repairing consumer electronics when everyone
with any intelligence realised that the market was disappearing and
got out into other fields

Waves white flag


Arfa

Not wishing to get involved in this flame war, but I assumed that given the
cost of labour & the price of consumer electronics, much stuff wasn't
economic to repair?

Given that you can buy a cheap sound surround thingy for £20 surely thats
not worth repairing?

Is it just high end stuff you repair?


--
Dave - The Medway Handyman
www.medwayhandyman.co.uk

In message , Arfa Daily
writes

"geoff" wrote in message
...
In message , Arfa Daily
writes

It means that you are a back street retard who cannot accept that he is
wrong and gets more abusive post by post

And you dare say that ? And even then, it doesn't make any sense. Are you
trying to say "taken the bait"? Actually, I can spar with people like you
all day. In many years of usenet posting, from time to time, I have done,
and with far far better than you. Trust me, they really were. But when you
started descending (correct spelling) to the use of a phrase like "back
street abortionist", you took it too far.

You have now shown yourself to be a sub-intelligent low-life, and I have
no
further interest in either you, or the ill-informed nonsense that you
spout,
in the fond hope that it makes you look clever.

Shall we try again you senile old ****

Someone posted about his scratchy old pots in an amp

John Rumm posted that he had used WD40 successfully in such a piece of
equipment

You then got on your crusade against using WD40 in electronics again and
again ad nauseam, when you really meant mechanics

When I took you to task over this you came on high and mighty and were
abusive - no problem to me, but then you seemed to take offence when I got
abusive back at you

now - the fact is that you are just ****ing wrong, most electronics would
be untouched by WD40 , whereas pinch wheels, sliding assemblies, as used
in the MECHANICS of consumer electronics (which you seemed to confuse with
domestic electronics) might well be affected

now **** off you tedious old loser


--
geoff


Of course the OP spraying WD40 at the pots on his bass amp, was *unlikely*
to cause specific damage, although even that can't be guaranteed depending
on what materials the pots are made from. Some PA amps have slider pots on
them,


No, you senile old fart - it was a bass amp, wasn't it

The line was crossed when your old man's condom broke ...


--
geoff

In message , Arfa Daily
writes

And now, I really have no further desire to communicate with you, except to
say that as you hold my trade in such low esteem, we practitioners of which
having never "moved on" from working on cheap nasty equipment, I sincerely
hope that when your fancy two grand plasma TV falls over two months out of
warranty, that you can't find a single person who will even look at it for
you, let alone repair it.

Arfa you doddery senile old fart - I have a well equipped pcb lab and
three electronics engineers.

****, are you stupid


--
geoff

"The Medway Handyman" wrote in message
...
geoff wrote:

What do you do - still repairing consumer electronics when everyone
with any intelligence realised that the market was disappearing and
got out into other fields

Waves white flag


Arfa

Not wishing to get involved in this flame war, but I assumed that given
the cost of labour & the price of consumer electronics, much stuff wasn't
economic to repair?

Given that you can buy a cheap sound surround thingy for £20 surely thats
not worth repairing?

Is it just high end stuff you repair?


--
Dave - The Medway Handyman
www.medwayhandyman.co.uk



Dave. I repair high end and almost high end hi-fi for a number of shops in
my area. Also home cinema systems, switch mode power supplies from several
sources, and a couple of control boards from drinks machines in quantity. I
also do a lot of repairs to group and general PA equipment and accessories,
including pedals, mixer desks etc. Many of the amplifiers that I work on are
valve. There's not too many of us around now who have the necessary
background to be able to carry out repairs to those items. As PA amplifiers
can cost a number of hundreds of pounds, and tend to be very long lived,
there is obviously good money in carrying out quality repairs to them.

I still do some low to mid end stuff as well. There are a lot of people out
there who are comfortable with their Aiwas and Pans and Sonys, and would
still prefer to have them repaired, than go out and buy a new TescoSonic for
twenty quid.

For sure, there's not as much work around as there used to be, but those of
us who have diversified and stuck with it, still make a reasonable living
without too much hassle.

Arfa

In message , Arfa Daily
writes

"The Medway Handyman" wrote in message
m...
geoff wrote:

What do you do - still repairing consumer electronics when everyone
with any intelligence realised that the market was disappearing and
got out into other fields

Waves white flag


Arfa

Not wishing to get involved in this flame war, but I assumed that given
the cost of labour & the price of consumer electronics, much stuff wasn't
economic to repair?

Given that you can buy a cheap sound surround thingy for £20 surely thats
not worth repairing?

Is it just high end stuff you repair?


--
Dave - The Medway Handyman
www.medwayhandyman.co.uk



Dave. I repair high end and almost high end hi-fi for a number of shops in
my area. Also home cinema systems, switch mode power supplies from several
sources, and a couple of control boards from drinks machines in quantity. I
also do a lot of repairs to group and general PA equipment and accessories,
including pedals, mixer desks etc. Many of the amplifiers that I work on are
valve. There's not too many of us around now who have the necessary
background to be able to carry out repairs to those items. As PA amplifiers
can cost a number of hundreds of pounds, and tend to be very long lived,
there is obviously good money in carrying out quality repairs to them.

I still do some low to mid end stuff as well. There are a lot of people out
there who are comfortable with their Aiwas and Pans and Sonys, and would
still prefer to have them repaired, than go out and buy a new TescoSonic for
twenty quid.

For sure, there's not as much work around as there used to be, but those of
us who have diversified and stuck with it, still make a reasonable living
without too much hassle.

A back street butcher ...

--
geoff