[TechAssist] Philips 36H800 again

Does anyone have anything else to suggest?
Here's what I've done:

I've replaced the diode on the SSB that Force says to replace for a dead 
set.
Twice!
I've resoldered the connector on the mother board.
I've cleaned the connector and the board edge.

The first time I replaced the diode the set ran several days in the shop, so 
I sent it home.
He says it ran a few hours and quit.
He brought it back and I replaced the diode again and ran it for a day then 
it quit on the 2nd day.
I dipped into the list again and got several more suggestions, which I did, 
then ran it for several days in the shop and let him take it home again.

He called this afternoon to tell me it ran about a half hour for him before 
quitting again.
He is getting tired of getting someone to help him lug it up and down a 
flight of stairs and  put it up on the shelf.
I'm getting tired of fixing something that just keeps going bad again.

He wasn't willing to go for an SSB in the first place and I'm not willing to 
buy one now, only to end up with the same problem.
Right now I only have $129 that I may have to give back. I sure don't want 
to expand that to $500 that I have to give back and end up owning an SSB 
that I will never use because I will certainly never take in another one of 
these sets again.

I don't know what kind of deal he's willing to make for me not fixing his 
TV. He's in the auto repair business so he should be happy to just junk it 
with no refund. Usually when one of them works on something of mine that 
isn't getting fixed, they call and say: the mechanic has 2 hours on it 
already and hasn't found the problem. The labor is $120 now, do want me to 
have him keep going?

Thanks
Russ Hoyt
Hoyt's TV
Exeter, NH



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