I'd look more at the type of damage: RF connector broken off. So what happened to break off that connection? Force, possibly the customer picking up the TV with the cable connected. I'd suspect the wrenched connector tranferred that force to the board located around the tuner......or it fell causing the RF connection to break and cracking the sync circuitry area somehow. Do-it-yourself consumer problems?? Did that customer say "He tried to fix it but....."? (I've never heard a woman ever say that). Damon Brunger damon101@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Telrad Electronic Services Ft Wayne, IN 46815 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter oliver" <oliver_peter1@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: <techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, November 23, 2002 8:58 PM Subject: [TechAssist] Sharp 32R-S400 No Horz sink broken RF connector > > Sharp 32R-S400 > Customer broke off RF connector But has no Horz sink. > > This set was orginally supose to be a no brainer when the customer > called. A broken RF connector, We can see 2-3 of that simptom a week, so > that is not usually a problem to repair as most snap cleanly with out too > much collateral dammage. But just The same we like to test the set before > rebuilding the RF connection on the Tunner. On testing this set we found > that the set has a horizontal sink problem. There doesn't appear to be any > dammage other that the connector. Does any one know the in's and out's of > the works of this set. IE Since this set is 2001 it appears to be an I2 > type chassis, Can breaking the connector corrupt the eeprom and data. I was > suspecting some do it self consumer problems in the set but really can't > prove it. But I gave them I $125 est for the tunner and the sink problem, > they said they would think about it, That was a month ago so I need to try > to think about fixing and selling it off, since its pretty new, and selling > it off is more profitable than dumping it or scrapping it not to mention > more envoromentally freindly. > > > Peter Oliver > Tucson Radio TV > > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > STOP MORE SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* > http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail > > ------------------------------------------ > To REMOVE your email address, click here: > http://www.tech-assist.org/unsubb.html > To CHANGE your email address, click here: > http://www.techassist.net/forms/change.html > ------------------------------------------ > ***NEW*** Tips Added Instantly!!!*** > Submit Repair Tips here: > http://www.tech-assist.org/secure/tip/ > ------------------------------------------ To REMOVE your email address, click here: http://www.tech-assist.org/unsubb.html To CHANGE your email address, click here: http://www.techassist.net/forms/change.html ------------------------------------------ ***NEW*** Tips Added Instantly!!!*** Submit Repair Tips here: http://www.tech-assist.org/secure/tip/