I love it when TV shops don't want to/don't know how to fix TV's

[radiotvnut]

Picked up a '99 25" CTC185 XL100 mono jack-less TV from the repair shop. Plugged it in, dead as a hammer. I started checking for raw B+ at the filter cap and found nothing. I then checked the fuse and fusible resistor and they were good. Went back to the AC cord and one of it's conductors showed an open circuit. At first, I thought my DMM had took a dump. Checked the meter and saw it was working, soldered on another power cord and the set works perfect.

I suspect this was one of those deals where the customer brought the set in for repair and told the technician that he didn't want to spend over $40 on it. The technician took it in, kept it a few days, called up the owner, and told him it was going to cost $157.96 to repair. When the owner said "no", the shop never bothered to look at it. Or, maybe the technician overlooked the AC cord as "these rarely go bad".

I'm sure others have similar stories.

At the same time; I got an '05 27" JVC "D series" with a bad CRT and an old beat up 25" Magnavox that blew HOT's. I dumped the Magnavox but rejuvenated the tube in the JVC. It looks OK; but, I know it won't last. It uses one of those bonded yoke style Thomson/RCA tubes; so, finding a good tube shouldn't be a problem.