[TechAssist] Re: [Tech Assist] Re: where did u guys learn?
- From: joel e sanford <jo-rope@xxxxxxxx>
- To: techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 11 May 2003 11:02:57 -0600
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
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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> > 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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