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Old 03-18-2014, 07:06 AM
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Originally Posted by KV-1926R View Post
My practice is that anything new enough to have a lot of surface-mount crap gets junked, working or not. A heavily-bonded Thomson yoke came off in a couple hundred pieces during my latest project. All I have left of that yoke is the magnet with the warning label that says not to attempt to remove the yoke.
SMD's would have killed the repair biz without cheap red chinese
stuff. Totally changed the game. It got to the point where we told
people it needed a whole board if a SM IC was suspected. So TV's
became a throw away commodity.

73 Zeno
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