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Originally Posted by radiotvnut
A lot of people get PO'ed when you tell them their $2K-$3K TV that's less than ten years old is not worth fixing
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I run into that a lot. I tell them I would rather have them get angry with me because I
didn't take their money than because I did, knowing they would not get their moneys worth out of the repair. I like to try to make them feel better about all that money they paid for the set going down the drain, explaining that it wasn't that they did something stupid, but the manufacturers cut corners everywhere they could and crossed their fingers that the thing would last through the warranty.
As for CRT projection, I don't see many anymore. They abruptly dropped off to a trickle just before Christmas 2010. I screen them pretty carefully now days before I work on them. Most of the Mitsubishi sets seem to be worth a try, as long as they are not too old and the CRT coolant hasn't leaked. Not many projection sets from before 1998 that I'll work on now. I don't consider the Philips sets worth messing with anymore. Late model RCA might be worth it, since most of them only seem to have bad soldering on the fly and those ribbon cable connectors. Older RCA sets aren't usually worth it anymore. Late Hitachi models are OK, but I think I have put new STK chips in almost every one of them around here already, so there aren't many of those left to do. Not seeing Toshiba projo anymore.
Still doing DLP sets, mostly fans and color wheels ( and lamps of course), and occasionally a DLP chip with stuck pixels.
Been about 1 1/2 years since I did a Sony optical block. See lots of them but people don't want to spend the money.
More than anything these days I'm swapping electrolytic caps. I have a shoebox full of dead ones.
Oh yeah..I won't do those first generation Mits DLP sets either. Even gave up on my own about a year ago....A guy gave me $20 bucks for it and I took the money and ran!