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Had I been born just 5 years sooner I'm sure I'd have gotten into tv repair professionally. By the time I got out of school in '90 I was tinkering a lot with tv's but not getting anywhere. Sometimes I would get lucky with an old tube set but then they were hard to sell. A number of people gave me sets to fix but I don't recall many repairs that held. Around that time the local tv shop was looking for someone to help install antennas & I sometimes wonder how things would have turned out had I applied. 5 years later the place was out of the tv business, so I don't know. I'm still no good with solid state gear, though I know I could have been taught. And maybe you don't have to be that good to get by sometimes? A good old guy I know is a retired tv repairman from Sears. He gave me a bunch of stuff that was going to the dumpster. Said over & over that he really was never any good with solid state stuff & that he doesn't know why he didn't get fired years ago! That made me feel better!
Even though I was no good at it, I spent years lugging home sets I found for free or cheap. The house was always cluttered with stuff. I finally broke myself of it.
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Bryan
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