Texas recycles day 2007

[radiotvnut]

Originally Posted by bgadow

Yesterday I stopped to pull another set out of the ditch. Turned out to be a Sylvania TV/VCR/DVD combo, one of those nasty walmart specials. Full of water-I might plug it in just to see what happens.

Yeah, plug it into a long extension cord at night and have a video camera going to capture the effects. I've got a 9" Memorex (same crap) TV/DVD combination that was a reject from the local shop. He never opened it. After spending half a day getting it apart, I found that the HOT was shorted. It's one of those new ones that's not near the size of the old HOT's. Got the set going thanks to a junk board; but, it didn't stay fixed. Tonight, I turned it on and the red light came on and that was it. I calmly unplugged it and slung it on the trash pile of junk waiting to be hauled off! A friend brought me his 2005 Toshiba (Funai) TV/VCR combo. It works for a while and then shuts down. It's one of those that will take half a day to tear into and I'm just not going to waste my time with it. I'm sure it's just a cap heating up; but, why bother? Something else would just fail in six months (or less) and then I'd hear about it! I could just let him have, oh say, a 1977 XL-100; but, that would be TOO OLD!