[TechAssist] Re: [Tech Assist] Re: where did u guys learn?
- From: Andrew Rose <badandy2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 11 May 2003 12:38:03 -0700
that's how I started uncle Sam sent me when I got out in 55
Andrew Action TV
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From: "joel e sanford" <jo-rope@xxxxxxxx>
To: <techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, May 11, 2003 10:02 AM
Subject: [TechAssist] Re: [Tech Assist] Re: where did u guys learn?
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> Now I don,t care what enyone says ...that was some interesting reading !
> hearing how some guys started..and such.myself..... I was 34 years when
> my old steel cabinet zenith had what I now know was a 60cycle hum, and
> when the repair person came to fix it I asked him how he knew what to
> replace. he asked me was i a veteran(right about the end of veitnam)if so
> they would pay me to go to school... under the G>I> Bill They had offered
> a two year course one year computors?,and one year Basic television, I
> opted for the television course.. who ever heard of PC>s back in 72!eny
> way they were just for office,s(HUH)?but I bumped along and finished 13th
> of a class of 140 that means 127 dropped out! something about common
> denominatar or co-sine.... back in the day of the double pole double
> throw off on switch, I must have put almost everthing in the power supply
> befor I finally looked at the back section of the switch, but....AH so it
> goes you must have patience and as for VCR,S I had to fly by the seat of
> my pants and READ! Same with projo,s Now that I am a old man I rely on
> the forum for assistance(since I am retired enyway) but I just can,t pass
> up a quick repair..... thanks for the EAR.......Joel Sanford
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> On Sat, 10 May 2003 20:01:08 -0400 larry <schntv@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> >
> > OK guys, I tried to be quiet, for fear someone was going to
> > complain about the non-tech posts.
> > but you are all getting away with it , so I will tell my story
> > also. lol
> > At about 10 years I began building radio kits, Knight, Heath,
> > etc.
> >
> > I Loved electronics, and studied and became a license Ham
> > Radio operator.
> >
> > Experimenting and tinkering is fun, but, in my opinion, wont
> > really teach the basic building blocks.
> >
> > My tinkering caused questions in my mind that only study would
> > answer.
> > I hated to read as a child, but in my small town, that was the
> > only place I would find any help.
> > So I read every book and magazine in the local library, and
> > the Radio Amateurs Handbook, and anything I could get my hands
> > on.
> >
> > Once you learn the difference between RF and DC, and
> > understand what a cap or a resistor or a coil will do to it,
> > you are on your way.
> > You than have a chance to teach your self.
> >
> > You must love your work, and when you dont understand why
> > something
> > happens, study until you figure it out, by reading or asking
> > questions,
> > even if it costs 3 bucks a minute from Sony. lol
> >
> > Try to forget about making the profit you deserve, and enjoy
> > your experimenting, and take time to teach your self the
> > answers to those questions that bug you.
> >
> > Like all of us, I believe I am worth far more than I earn, but
> > life has been good, and I am doing what I love, and I am my
> > own boss. Well, when my wife isn't around. lol
> >
> > Just my opinion,
> > Larry
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Electric Medic wrote:
> > >
> > > WE HAD 14 television sets in our house during the '60s, none of
> > which worked
> > > properly. My dad was the TV repairman!
> > > There were two sets in the living room-one provided the sound,
> > while the
> > > other flashed a barely visible picture. Mom and I tried in vain to
> > find the
> > > faulty tube or loose screw that made the picture too dim to watch.
> > >
> > > Dad could have done it. His customers said he was a genius when it
> > came to
> > > fixing their broken TV sets.
> > >
> > > Trouble was, Dad was so busy fixing TVs at night and working his
> > factory job
> > > during the day, he had no time to repair our set.
> > >
> > > Mom was the one who persuaded Dad to get into TV repair. Years
> > before they
> > > were married, Mom attended the Century of Progress Exposition in
> > Chicago in
> > > 1933 and the New York World's Fair in 1939, where she saw
> > demonstrations of
> > > television.
> > >
> > > My parents bought their first set when they were married in 1949.
> > Mom then
> > > urged Dad to go to night school and learn how to fix TVs.
> > >
> > > Dad enrolled in the television repair class at a technical school.
> > When he
> > > finished the class, he bought a repair kit that he carried in a
> > big case.
> > >
> > > Word soon got out in our Augusta Georgia South Side neighborhood
> > that Dad
> > > was a technical whiz. He could figure out the problems people were
> > having
> > > with this magnificent, but complicated, piece of equipment they
> > could no
> > > longer live without.
> > >
> > > Referrals from satisfied customers kept our phone ringing at all
> > hours. Even
> > > at midnight, we would get calls asking for Dad's help. At 4 years
> > old, I was
> > > already taking Dad's phone messages. "My TV went out during The
> > > Millionaire!" one panicked customer cried.
> > >
> > > Lots of Tubes to Test
> > >
> > > In those days, most of the problems with TV sets were in the
> > tubes-and those
> > > huge sets had a lot of them. Some used as many as 25, and all were
> > different
> > > sizes.
> > >
> > > I remember going with Dad to a customer's house. He'd unscrew the
> > back of
> > > the set, brush off the dust inside, then remove any tubes that
> > looked dark.
> > > That meant they were burned out.
> > >
> > > If he didn't't have a replacement tube in his kit, Dad would go to
> > > Walgreen's, which had tubes and a tube-testing machine. Dad taught
> > me to use
> > > the tester. He showed me how the prongs on a tube would correspond
> > to the
> > > holes in the testing machine. I'd plug in the tube, then turn the
> > knob to
> > > "On". A dial would tell if the tube was "Good", "Weak" or "Poor".
> > Dad would
> > > then buy the tubes he needed.
> > >
> > > Sometimes the tubes were all good, but the picture kept rolling.
> > If the
> > > problem was the horizontal or vertical hold, it meant there was a
> > loose
> > > screw somewhere.
> > >
> > > Once their sets were fixed, smiles spread across the customer's
> > faces. Dad's
> > > fee? In 1959 it was about $2, plus whatever tubes he had to
> > replace.
> > >
> > > Old Sets Were Handy Loaners
> > >
> > > When customers bought new TVs, they often gave Dad their old sets.
> > He
> > > welcomed them because he could use the good tubes to repair other
> > sets. Dad
> > > also used the sets as loaners if he had to take a customer's set
> > home for
> > > repair.
> > >
> > > That's how we ended up with 14 sets, none of which worked
> > properly. That's
> > > also how Mom and I, after trying to fix the sets, knew that Dad
> > really was a
> > > genius.
> > >
> > > When solid-state television sets appeared in the '60s, Dad's
> > business
> > > plummeted. The new sets were too advanced, too technical for him,
> > Dad said.
> > >
> > > Before long, the late-night repair calls stopped, Walgreen's
> > removed its
> > > tube-testing machine, and Dad's repair kit was tucked away in a
> > closet.
> > >
> > > Just like the iceman, the doctor who made house calls, and the man
> > who came
> > > by to sharpen knives, the TV home repairman's era came to an end.
> > >
> > > Dad continued to work at his factory job and he worked weekends at
> > an
> > > old-fashioned soda fountain. I helped him there, too.
> > >
> > > But he never did fix any of those 14 TV sets we had at home
> > >
> > > Perry Bower, (EHEER) Electronic Home Entertainment Equipment
> > Repairer
> > > Electric Medic
> > > "It's Cheaper to Keep Her"
> > > http://www.electricmedic.com
> > > Free Electronic Screensaver:
> > >
> >
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> > > 3850 Washington Road Suite 5b
> > > Augusta, Georgia 30907
> > > Phone: 706-8MEDIC4 (863-3424)
> > > Phone: 706-863-3474
> > > Fax: 706-863-2316
> > > mailto:info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: inventdv [mailto:inventdv@xxxxxxxxx]
> > > Sent: Saturday, May 10, 2003 3:51 AM
> > > To: techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > Subject: [TechAssist] where did u guys learn?
> > >
> > > im intrested in where some of u guys learnt repair
> > > tell me
> > >
> > >
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