T4tomo
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I can only begin to imagine Mrs @DaveReading's side of the story when she is relaying it to her friends....
DIY TV repairs?
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DaveReading
Don't suffer fools gladly (must try harder!)
- Location
- Reading, obvs
What TV ??
New set on order.
Wife delighted.
Lesson learned.
New set on order.
Wife delighted.
Lesson learned.
fossyant
Ride It Like You Stole It!
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- South Manchester
What TV ??
New set on order.
Wife delighted.
Lesson learned.
Less ear ache also.
Fair play for having a go.
I used to love fixing things, but can't really be bothered with modern electronic devices. I'm actually qualified in electronics but have forgotten so much.
I repaired the amplifier in a 1960s record player for a cousin who collects old things a while back. It was nice to dabble again and feel pleased I got it working. Just needed a transistor and I replaced a few suspect capacitors.
Oh, and I haven't got a TV!
I used to love fixing things, but can't really be bothered with modern electronic devices. I'm actually qualified in electronics but have forgotten so much.
I repaired the amplifier in a 1960s record player for a cousin who collects old things a while back. It was nice to dabble again and feel pleased I got it working. Just needed a transistor and I replaced a few suspect capacitors.
Oh, and I haven't got a TV!
I've still got all my resistor, transistor, diode, zener diode spares. From time to time I'll make a little circuit up to do a specific task. These days you can get virtually everything pre-made from Amazon amd other outlets.
A few years ago I knocked up a tiny door alarm for the freezer. I had to fit it between the small panels on the front. To this day it still works and no more accidental defrosting with the door being a few mm open
A few years ago I knocked up a tiny door alarm for the freezer. I had to fit it between the small panels on the front. To this day it still works and no more accidental defrosting with the door being a few mm open
Dogtrousers
Lefty tighty. Get it righty.
What TV ??
New set on order.
Wife delighted.
Lesson learned.
I'm rather sad about that. I was really hoping this thread would cover a few more episodes as you played whack a mole with problems
Still, hats off to you for having a go.
Some years ago I had a tablet and the micro Usb power connector was screwed. I decided to try a repair as it was useless as it was, because I couldn't get any charge into it.
I read up on the internet how to open it up. Got some appropriate tools together. It took me all of 10 seconds to break the screen and give up.
DaveReading
Don't suffer fools gladly (must try harder!)
- Location
- Reading, obvs
I feel your pain - I wrecked a very nice phone in the same way - by assuming that the YouTube instructions were correct.
Coincidentally it was another hand-me-down from my son and family when they went off to the USA to live. DIL was about to bin the phone just because it had a dodgy charger connection. My first Android phone after many years of BlackBerrying.
I got it to charge reasonably reliably with a bit of elastic(!) to keep the cable in, but eventually got fed up and ordered a charging module for tenner from AliExpress. When it arrived, it took me about 5 minutes to find out that you didn't take the phone apart the way that YouTube showed, by which time I'd f*cked up the screen.
Can you see a trend emerging here?
Profpointy
Legendary Member
That's still a good result in a sense. If you'd not had a go, you'd have kept it as clutter with the job of repairing it nagging at you for ever. Now you've given it your best shot, it's irretrievably bust, so you can sling/recycle it with a clear conscience.
I used to quarrel with my Dad regularly if I needed to use drastic measures, eg hitting a stuck part on my car with hammer to get it free to repair it, "you'll break it. Tap it gently with a piece of wood". He simply could not/would not grasp that the thing has to come off, it if it or another piece gets broken on the way, then you just fix it. He never fixed anything, yet kept decades worth of non-working items.
Years ago back in the 80s my dad had a Philips CRT tv in his bachelor pad and it was making an awful crackling sound and flickering picture.
It had the old style fibre board type cover on the back with loads of thin slat type vents in it ,and you could see the wall behind the tv randomly light up with the silhouettes from the slated vents.Its was clearly shorting out somewhere.
My dad was a total nightmare / wally when it came to diy and he had no common sense or fear of electricity.
One night he got fed up with it and decided to try and fix it..
Most normally sane people would switch the TV off and unplug it before taking it apart but not my dad.
Armed with just a few kitchen knives he took the fibre board back off ,with the telly still on because in his words"he wanted to listen to the news"
With the back off the tv he started poking and prodding inside it with a kitchen knife and asking me if there was any improvement in the picture.
I was sat on the sofa horrified waiting for him to blow himself up , and then all of a sudden the picture stopped flickering and the cracking noise disappeared.
He emerged from the back of the tv looking rather please with himself.
It turned out the braided earth strap on the back of tube had come loose and he somehow managed to tightened it up with a kitchen knife to sorted it out.
To this day I don't know how he never got electrocuted.
How he's managed to get to the ripe old age of 80 is a miracle 🤣
It had the old style fibre board type cover on the back with loads of thin slat type vents in it ,and you could see the wall behind the tv randomly light up with the silhouettes from the slated vents.Its was clearly shorting out somewhere.
My dad was a total nightmare / wally when it came to diy and he had no common sense or fear of electricity.
One night he got fed up with it and decided to try and fix it..
Most normally sane people would switch the TV off and unplug it before taking it apart but not my dad.
Armed with just a few kitchen knives he took the fibre board back off ,with the telly still on because in his words"he wanted to listen to the news"
With the back off the tv he started poking and prodding inside it with a kitchen knife and asking me if there was any improvement in the picture.
I was sat on the sofa horrified waiting for him to blow himself up , and then all of a sudden the picture stopped flickering and the cracking noise disappeared.
He emerged from the back of the tv looking rather please with himself.
It turned out the braided earth strap on the back of tube had come loose and he somehow managed to tightened it up with a kitchen knife to sorted it out.
To this day I don't know how he never got electrocuted.
How he's managed to get to the ripe old age of 80 is a miracle 🤣
Fastpedaller
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- Norfolk
Have you ever seen 'Keeping Up Appearances'? - Just do an Onslow on it
Profpointy
Legendary Member
Cripes I was on edge just reading that. He did well to get away with that never mind actually fixing it ! Apparently with some old TVs you could get a many kV belt, in some cases even after they were switched off as the capacitors held charge for a long time
Back around 2005 I bought a cheap rear projector tv.
It was a big old bulky thing with the bottom half containing some big speakers and it was sort of thing you would see in the pub airing the football.
It was ok picture wise, but I had to turn the brightness and color to full to get a watchable picture.
One day I decided to take it apart to see if there was anything obviously wrong and I soon discovered that the three primary coloured bulbs were the issue.They were absolutely caked in thick dust.I gave them a good clean, reassembled the TV, and was shocked by the difference.
I had to turn the brightness and colour right down and the picture had lost it's milky appearance.
I had it for a few years before selling it on
It was a big old bulky thing with the bottom half containing some big speakers and it was sort of thing you would see in the pub airing the football.
It was ok picture wise, but I had to turn the brightness and color to full to get a watchable picture.
One day I decided to take it apart to see if there was anything obviously wrong and I soon discovered that the three primary coloured bulbs were the issue.They were absolutely caked in thick dust.I gave them a good clean, reassembled the TV, and was shocked by the difference.
I had to turn the brightness and colour right down and the picture had lost it's milky appearance.
I had it for a few years before selling it on
After the rear projector tv ,we went all posh and we bought an LCD tv.
It was heavily discounted because it had a slight issue in that a small group of pixels were stuck on the same colour.
One night whilst scrolling through YouTube I came across this issue and a "hack" on how to fix it.
It was simply to just get a pencil with a rubber on the end and just massage the dead pixels on the the screen with the rubbered end of the pencil
Low and behold it actually worked and the old telly is still going strong today at 16/17 years old
It was heavily discounted because it had a slight issue in that a small group of pixels were stuck on the same colour.
One night whilst scrolling through YouTube I came across this issue and a "hack" on how to fix it.
It was simply to just get a pencil with a rubber on the end and just massage the dead pixels on the the screen with the rubbered end of the pencil
Low and behold it actually worked and the old telly is still going strong today at 16/17 years old
Fastpedaller
Über Member
- Location
- Norfolk
How do people find out these things in the first place?
