RCA Servicemaker!

[bgadow]

I enjoy hearing those old stories from the radio/tv repair days. Good to share them! I'm sure that if I was born a little sooner I'd have gone into tv repair but it was washed up by the time I got out of school in '90. One sorta story I have, about the time I graduated I came across 2 late 60s color sets at a used furniture store, a GE that never worked right and a Philco-Ford that worked great. Should have kept it, but I swapped it at another used furniture store for a Truetone multiband transitor set. I got a call about a month later saying they had sold the tv but the guy was having problems. I offered no warranty, of course, but I went to the guy's house just for the heck of it. Here is this guy, all he could do is yell, at the kids (and he had a boatload of 'em), at the tv, at the glass of tea he knocked on the floor, he yelled at everything but me. He had carried this Philco out to his shed so he goes out an gets it, its a fair size console, and he just picks it up and carries it in! I'm not screwing around with this guy! Anyway, all that was wrong with it was one of the kids had turned the horizontal hold control and the guy didn't have sense to know what to turn. I still wish I had bought it back from him.