You poor little young people.....

kaiser715

kaiser715

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...never saw the day when a brand new TV came with schematics so you could actually work on it.

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My father built the TV we had when I was a kid. He actually built it before I was born. I think it was around 1972-1973 when he built it. It was a Heathkit. He repaired it several times over the years before upgrading to a newer TV.
 
That's something I've never had the knack for...reading electrically schematics. So I leave apology notes instead to whoever cracks it open after I'm done with it.

That said...with as cheap as TV's are today, not worth my time to do anything but go out and buy a new one.
 
Years ago we rented a house in Harlan for the april fools ride.My son and a couple of other boys couldnt get the TV to turn on.They didn't know to pull the knob out to turn it on or that they had to manually turn the channels.:lol:
 
drkelly said:
My father built the TV we had when I was a kid. He actually built it before I was born. I think it was around 1972-1973 when he built it. It was a Heathkit. He repaired it several times over the years before upgrading to a newer TV.
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Me and my wife have been together since 89 and her dad has had the same console TV ever since Ive been around and it was probably 10 yo when I showed up.I don't think its ever been in to.I wanna say it a Curtis Mathis.
 
UTfball68 said:
That's something I've never had the knack for...reading electrically schematics. So I leave apology notes instead to whoever cracks it open after I'm done with it.

That said...with as cheap as TV's are today, not worth my time to do anything but go out and buy a new one.
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I use to go to the crusher everyday back when scrap was up and I was amazed at how many new-ish front load washers were brought in. Its a shame they don't last any longer than they do for the price.
 
When I worked for Nortel in RTP we had 50 page schematics for circuit boards. A couple of pages was just the 11 layer board.
 
a_kelley said:
washers, dryers, ovens, & microwaves used to as well!
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My fridge came with a schematic.... most of the rest you can download online. Just downloaded one to repair my Samsung washer.
 
I can remember walking into a house with a case of tubes, removing the pressed board back along with the power cord from the color tv. I would use a cheater cord to power up. No picture check the high voltage lead to the picture tube. If I couldn't fix it changing out tubes I would disconnect the chassis and take it to the shop leaving the picture tube and cabinet. Tuner spray cleaner was used when you had to keep tapping the channel knob to keep a good picture.
 
Chris_Keziah said:
That's not saying much because I still remember when there were tv repair shops and computer repair shops most everywhere.
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Where they WERE, and when they were actively operational (TV repair, not computer repair...NO ONE had a computer in the 70's) are 2 very different things
 
tknopp said:
I remember Woolworth's had one similar to check your batteries.
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So did our local Radio Shack.

... they also had a card you could get to get a free battery every month
 
Actually, RadioShack killed themselves, in 1988/89.

Tandy/RadioShack was a leader in computers, especially in the small business market, starting about 1983. They were way out in front of many others. Their fist major offering (aside from toy-ish Commodore 64 competitors) was a Unix (xenix) based console. In 1983, had a whopping 12 gig hdd, ran 8" floppys, and could support 2 dumb terminals. Lots of SMB's put them in, because you do do that for about 25-50k, vs 150k for the lowest IBM offerings. I probably put in 50+ systems from '83 to '86-87. Made big money for the '80s. Got a 15% kickback on hardware, more on the accounting software, and did a lot of database work. Worked 60-80 hours, and turned away as much.

Anyway, RadioShack came out with this nice annual catalog. Every January or whenever, a new catalog came out. And they got it in their heads that pricing in the catalog was THE price for the year. No reductions, no sales, no rebates. And computer prices fell like a rock starting in mid-80's. They'd come out with a system....iirc, I paid $4k ish for a full-blown 386 in '88. It was still $4k in December. When all the new-then competitors had dropped $500 or more in that year. Next January, a new catalog comes out, with prices for that year...competitive at first, then overpriced as other's dropped their prices. Within about 3 years of that, RadioShack had suicided their computer business. Downhill and hanging on ever since.

Still got a running 4000LX sitting in the shop. ftp://ftp.oldskool.org/pub/tvdog/tandy1000/documents/4klxrel.txt
 
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