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Originally Posted by radiotvnut
As far as the nastiness, this thing was disgustingly filthy, with some dead roaches inside.
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Back in the 80s, I pulled a Philips chassis (something like an H1 console) from a house that had by a long shot the worse roach infestation I had ever seen. Fortunately, I wasn't skeevy so I just went ahead. There were so many roaches in this apartment they were literally dozens on the wall, kitchen counter and furniture just walking around in broad daylight, and the TV was a disgusting mess inside as you can imagine.
I called the customer to give them the estimate for the repair, which included a horizontal output damaged by roach crap/piss on the sweep section causing cross conduction of parts. They OK'd it but I told them the roaches caused the problem and they would have to address the roach issue or the roaches would damage that TV or even a new one if I sold them one.
Repairing the chassis included removing everything from the chassis that would trap water, like the flyback or small inductors and tuning coils, then scrubbing the board clean with an ammonia and soap mixture. The TV came out fine and I ran it a couple of days in the shop and returned it.
They asked about the warranty and I told them all my work was guaranteed for one year, but that it didn't include any damage from roaches, and I put a disclaimer on the bill stating that.
He called me again the following year and told me the TV went out again. I told him to remove the back cover and look inside - if there were roaches on the board I wasn't warrantying my work. He never called back.
John