Garbage Picked 19" LCD TV
 

Today me and the wife were driving around looking at houses and saw this TV sticking out of a garbage can. Its a Westinghouse branded Chinese made POS. As you can guess it had blown caps, replaced and working good!

FYI: The chassis box is held on the back of the lcd panel with TAPE, nothing else!

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Good job!

It has become so common for recent electronic devices to fail and be discarded due to bad, bulging-top capacitors, that in an alternate world they are the 21st-century equivalent of failing vacuum tubes. Reasonably-handy ordinary home tinkerers could probably fix 50% or more of their broken devices this way today, but this mentality just does not exist in society commonly anymore.

Imagine if TVs and radios had far more screws in their backs in the 1940s-70s, and no local stores had had tubes and testers available. Would lots of TV sets have been put at the curb for needing a 6GH8 or 5U4G?

Behold the awesome fastening strength!....of tape?:wtf:

If tape can hold an alligator's mouth shut it can hold a dinky little board in place, for the two years that the set is going to last (until you replaced the caps!)

I've fixed many LCD monitors with the same problem. It's always nice when you can fix an electronic device with a visual inspection!

-J


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The set is simular to the one I found a few months ago. After I figured how to pry the two cabinet halves apart, as they're just snapped together. There was several screws holding the cover and board. As usual, bulging 'lytics.

Congrats on the fix! My daily watcher is a Sony 36" LCD that I got the same way--trash pick then replace a few bulged caps.

As far as tape goes, it all depends on exactly what kind of tape. 3M makes a line of double-sided tapes that are recommended as replacements for rivets or other mechanical fasteners. Some SERIOUSLY strong stuff:

http://solutions.3m.com/wps/portal/3...apes/VHB-Tape/

I got 1 of those for free - same problem. Replaced all caps with high quality Panasonics - total cost $10 - works great. This is remote control capable - it uses Sony codes, so if you have any Sony remotes, you can control all the basic functions.

I repaired a22" Dynex I bought at BB for a b/room set .
in late 2009
P/S caps failed Jan 2013.
It cost me like $3.20 at Mouser for some decent Panasonic low esr caps.
Even though I replaced it with a new 32" Toshiba I was able to repurpose it as a second computer monitor for a dual screen set up itworks as well as it did when it was new.

Duct tape....the handyman's secret weapon. :thmbsp:

Duct tape is kind of like "The Force". It has a light side and a dark side, and it holds the universe together.

Oh, those lovely CapXon capacitors! We have them in electronic stuff here in the UK. Same old story...they start to bulge beautifully! Easy repair, though! :)