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Originally Posted by rrrhre2s
There was a guy selling yearly subscriptions to a repair list. He also sold one for the computer (386 - 486 Days). This was almost 22 years ago before I quit servicing TV's to make a living.
Used to carry them in a loose leaf binder for home service calls, sometimes saved loading up the set and transporting it back to the shop.
I now wish I had not gotten rid of them when I closed the shop in 1996.
rrrhre2s
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There was a company called KDTV that had a database of repair tips for about 70 bucks, but 60 percent of it was useless crap like Sams cross references, model-to-chassis crosses, and parts subs. The remaining 40% was so Curtis mathes and Colortyme loaded that you got about 2000-3000 actual tips, and many were duplicates. They gave renewal credits for tips submitted, but no quality checking on the tips that were submitted, making for a very watered-down database. Repair World was okay, but got NAP heavy. Our best resource was other shops in our area, sharing helpful tips in phone conferences and a Sams-borrowing library. If you fixed a set, you marked up the Sams with the problem and cure. Some Sams had additional pages added - those were the problem sets like the System 3s, the GE AA/AB/AC chassis sets, and the RCA CTC175-185 sets with the EEPROM and tuner troubles.
Someone recently sent me a postcard about another online resource for an HDTV repair database - submit 20 tips and get a trial subscription. What a waste - board swapping isn't troubleshooting, and a database supporting that is not needed. Enough free resources exist - Vk, AVS forum and others for example.
Cheers,