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Originally Posted by TV Engineer
My intention is not to offend anyone by this post, but to point out that electronic servicing is best left to professionals. It prevents damage to the equipment as well as the hobbyist.
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"Let the man who hath never blown anything up cast the first stone" 2 Farnsworth 4, verse 12
Know how I restore a TV or radio? I test and replace parts that in the grand scheme of things I feel that it makes sense to replace given a certain condition. If you equated my amount of electronic knowledge to a car, it would be like saying that I can acknowledge when I suspect a car has a bad fuel pump. I can test a fuel pump. I can replace a fuel pump. But, I don't know how a fuel pump makes the car run. Exchange "fuel pump" with "2nd IF stage", or something, and there's me.
I don't know Ohm's law. I blew up my first radio at age 8, but I repaired my first radio at age 8 1/2. I also built my first TV by trash picking different sets and swapping parts until I got something that kinda worked. Think I was 11. Everything else, well, it came to me along the way.
This is, after all, a hobby. I think that anyone who tried to make a living off of restoring TVs would go broke rather quickly.