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Old 07-16-2011, 07:29 PM
old_coot88 old_coot88 is offline
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Originally Posted by DaveWM View Post
...Anyhow I am chipping away at it. I sure am glad I dont get paid to do this, considering how many hours I fiddle away, I would never have a customer willing to pay. I really just dont know how TV guys back in the day made money. Of course with time I guess I would get better at diagnostics and not spend so much time second guessing and wonder what looks 'right".
Heh.. back in the day, there seemed to be three fairly defined classes of TV guys. There were the tube jockeys who did the house calls and pulled the sets in when tubes or fuses wouldn't fix the problem. And there were the shop techies who dug in and did the actual troubleshooting and circuit diagnostics. Of course those two classes did tend to overlap somewhat. Then there were the 'dog shooters', the supergeeks who took on the real brain-buster repairs, who usually worked by piece work (as opposed to by the hour).
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