Inside a TV repair shop

[wa2ise]

Originally Posted by Zenith26kc20

Roaches, rats and mice were the norm. ...
Another one was a king snake that went into the set for warmth and got across B boost to ground. The owners were not happy when I picked his remains out of the set with my hot tube puller while their son watched....

Heard that electricians often find dead mice and snakes inside circuit breaker panels. These critters find the terminals for the 120 and 240VAC feeds and get zapped. Open knockout holes are likely how they get inside. Why they go inside, maybe it's a bit warmer in there...

[jr_tech]

Originally Posted by Reece

Ersin multicore. Wish I still had some of the latter.

I have seen some on eBay... 60/40 good enough?

http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=...at=0&_from=R40

Not affiliated,
jr

Anybody else think the 'scope might be a Sylvania?

[AUdubon5425]

Originally Posted by Zenith26kc20

Roaches, rats and mice were the norm...

My late Uncle West (West Stereo Service on Metairie Rd. - Audubon Radio on Magazine before that) had some experiences like that - wish I could remember them all. His Dad contracted with Morse for warranty work back in the sixties and he had some amusing stories about making house calls in the projects. Electrophonic rent-to-own consoles loaded with roaches, component failure due to gunshot - stuff like that.

[ctc17]

Originally Posted by sanjarali

I make pleasure myself from the story talk of before times!!!

In village of my borning, me uncle Bishar Ali would renew the frequent households and TV sets of the upper caste. He would pleasure himself to your stories also. Yet he was cut off head for disloyalty to the party group, so he has passed.

This is why contine myself in his way and love TVS

Ohh how I have missed this! I pleasure myself daily with the knowledge that I have the television set of the upper class rather than the flatscreen of the peasant

[reeferman]

Like Uncle West, I used to run service calls. Definitely an education on seeing how life was on both sides of the track. The boss even offered to give me combat pay to go to certain areas (but we both knew I would never take him up on the offer). I may have been dumb, but I wasn't stupid. For a high school kid in the late 60's it was a worldly experience.

[bgadow]

Originally Posted by Zenith26kc20

Remember mid engine Ford Econoline vans for house calls?

I saw an old print ad (circa. 1971) for our local shop showing his shop at the time, including his 60s Chevy van parked out front. Fast forward, last week I was driving down a backroad just outside town and, in the backyard of a house...there it was! It still has the lettering on the side, clearly visible. I need to catch the owner home and get some photos.

[ctc17]

To kinda go off topic, I have several invoice books from 60s/70s tube caddies. Some day I should scan them and post them up.
The prices are amazing...the dollar has lost so much value. $5 for the service call and repair, and a $3 tube. Wow..

[ChrisW6ATV]

Originally Posted by Reece

"Remember wrist watches?" ????

I do, though I haven't worn mine for several years. At that time, it was the fifth item I would have been carrying with a clock on it, after my pager, two cell phones (personal and work), and my handheld computer.

[Reece]

Ersin solder: didn't know they still made it! Too bad I loaded (leaded?) up on some big rolls of something else last year.

Watches: in much less time that it would take to pull my phone out of my pocket, I look at my watch and in 1/10th of a second I know the time. It's just convenient for me. Plus it makes a fashion statement: "look at the guy with the cheap watch." I keep the good ones for dress and wear a $15 Timex that if it gets crunched, no big deal.

[TerrySmith]

My dad worked for Sears servicing TV's and electronics from sometime in the mid 1950's to sometime in the mid 1960's in Birmingham AL and the last year in Pascagoula MS. He even drove the crappy old Econoline van!

His customer stories were priceless! He opened several roach / mouse infested sets! One lady called the store demanding a new picture tube under warranty, turns out her kid was watchind a western and blasted the bad guy with dads shotgun!

He also told me a story of a nice old lady in Hueytown and he asked her one time "whats with all the junk cars in your yard"? It was Bobby and Donnie Allisons mother!

Before he worked at Sears he worked for the DuMont dealer in Birmingham, once he told me they installed "the biggest g-d set he ever saw" in a swanky nightclub. It was a Royal Soverign! I would love to find that set today, but I'm sure its long gone.

[dieseljeep]

I bought a used 1965 Ford Econoline van in 1969. It had only 38K on it. It had to be one of the poorest handling vehicles on the road. That thing was all over the road. I always considered it to be a death trap.

[ohohyodafarted]

Originally Posted by dieseljeep

I bought a used 1965 Ford Econoline van in 1969. It had only 38K on it. It had to be one of the poorest handling vehicles on the road. That thing was all over the road. I always considered it to be a death trap.

Back than I was driving a 68 Dodge Sportsman window van. By today's standards all the early vans were death traps. I am now driving a 2006 Ford E150, and it is by far the best driving most comfortable full sized van I have ever owned. I am not fond of the E350's because of the tough suspension, but the 150's ride and drive like a luxury car.

[miniman82]

Agreed, I don't mind riding in your van at all. Even if 50% of the time thus far was spent curled up on the floor! lol

[gellis]

Originally Posted by sanjarali

I make pleasure myself from the story talk of before times!!!

In village of my borning, me uncle Bishar Ali would renew the frequent households and TV sets of the upper caste. He would pleasure himself to your stories also. Yet he was cut off head for disloyalty to the party group, so he has passed.

This is why contine myself in his way and love TVS

Ah don't know 'bout the rest of ya alls, but ah ain't got 'th foggiest idear hwut it is this here fellers tryin' 't say. Ah ain't here to bash this feller, but fer cripes sakes thats some tuff readin' if ya know what ah mean... ah muss say, this here "Sanjar" feller ought to try som'in new 't translate dat there ara-bay-ic or hwutever he's a sayin' in 't sum'in more readable fer the ing-a-lish 'a readin' folk. Not tryin' to be cruel to ya my friend, but lemme tell ya, its 'sawful hard to understand ya. I'm jusa sayin'.... (grin)

[gellis]

Originally Posted by Einar72

Shameful. You should apologize. I work with engineers from all over the world, and their English is hard to understand, but I don't mock them. You are embarassing America, no matter how funny you think you are.

Hmmph..... Well lemme tell you som'in "Einar". I for one ain't mockin' nobody. I thinks you jus'n don't understand my southern good 'ol boy way a writin'. I thinks you oughta lit'n up there 'ol buddy cause I'm 'bout the nicest guy 'round. I'm just sayin' 'ol "Sanjar" over theres a kinda hard to figgur out... but he ain't got nutin' to worry 'bout, cause he ain't gunna understand a cotton pickin' word I'm writn' anyway....Lemme tell you whut, hows 'bout you figgur out whut he's a sayin' in a plain ing-a-lish and I'll go get you one of those there nifty all fangled cee tee one hunerts yous guys are always talkin' 'bout...(grin)