I sold my old windows 10 q6600 pc today with SSD first thing to sell for ages. I may not be getting any more TVs as my dad is in very poor health and back in hospital
I have some vcrs that don’t quit and just run with little maintenance needed I have Mitsubishi’s ans jvc s that are like that I have a 2002 Mitsubishi it’s one of my most reliable machines
I'm curious. I know you worked at a broadcasting station and at Sony repairing VCR's, but where did you learn all the electrical stuff? Did you go to school for it or just taught yourself? Best Wishes, Erik
I went to school for the broadcast stuff and video editing. I had played around with electronics all my life from the time I was about 7 or 8. The neighbour was a TV repairman and was very good friends with my parents. He was 1 block over from where I grew up, ironically his old house is directly across the street from where I live now. He taught me how to repair radios and B/W Tvs but he retired about 1977 so I got a job working at another local TV repair shop where I worked after school. I had never planned to go into the repair business. I wanted to go down the broadcast road but its a very hard business to get into. You basically have to move to a small town and work there for a few years before the big city will look at you, and I didn't want to relocate. Sony had an ad in the paper that they were looking for jr techs so I allpled and was put on the "Special High Intensity Training" (SHIT) for beta. The guaranteed that they would give me all the shit I could handle to learn VCR and then threw me into the service center modifying all the defective betamax VCRs that were on the slow boat from japan. Sony made a mistake, they bought a boatload of defective solid aluminum capacitors made by Sanyo and they had a failure rate of 100%. I upgraded thousands of SL5000 series to new tantalum caps, which also required a full servo calibration. Did that for a year and when the project was done Sony offered me a permanant position at the national lab in winterpig. I said not a chance in hell I am going there so I left and ended up at a local shop that was growing like crazy. About that same time I started my own video production company and did weddings, corporate video, real estate video you name it. Training was constant for the 20 years I did it for a living. Manufactures were always putting on seminars to teach the service people all the new tech they were releasing. I probably spent 1 week every 3 months in the classroom learning about new stuff and new ways to service it.
Yes I was CEASA certified. I had to write a compliance exam in 1984 before I could do warranty work. I have all of the certification of completion for all the courses I took.
@@snakezdewiggle6084CEASA, Canadian electronic and appliance service association. This was a non-profit organisation that administered testing and accreditation of persons working in electronic and appliance servicing run by the federal government. It was killed in Feb 2010 by the Harper government in more of their cost cutting measures. It was a voluntary accreditation. Many mom and pop shops were not members. Most manufactures required that shops had at least 1 CEASA certified technician at the shop to get warranty service certified. You needed this to get paid by the manufactures to repair products under warranty. I got my certification when I worked for Sony Canada, and all the warranty claims had to be printed out on CEASA claim forms. Well most, Nakamichi didn't care. They would pay anyone to repair their crap. I know I will draw fire from the NAK loyalists but their stuff was bloody garbage. I would know, I had to fix enough of it, but their parts were readily available, and were cheap (which was great for us, gigantic markup and the sheep that bought into their cheepness just paid with a smile on their face.) Nak was one of the few companies that we could change them 150 labour to change a motor on a cassette deck and they would pay, whereas Sony and Panasonic paid 40 for the same warranty repair. So we absolutely loved doing warranty work for NAK. What was even better is their power transformers on their receivers would pop those thermal fuses like they were going out of style. A power transformer for say a Sony or Yamaha might cost us 60 or 70 and sell for 100. The transformer for the NAK cost us about 20.00 and we could sell it for 120, 130 whateven we wanted and NAK customers would never complain, they would just pay their bill and collect. They had that loyal of customer base. Could never figure it out either because their products were good but not spectacular. Of well, they didn't care of the techs were certified or not but Panasonic and Sony sure did. Especially if you were servicing microwave ovens. Oh well, there is no service business anymore so no need for certification anymore.
"I wonder what that controls." hahaha it's my guess that it controls ithe unit's ability to turn on as at least one of its functions. :) Edit: Note, I am still only at 1:38 in the video, so I really don't know the conclusion, yet. I am going by the looks of it. heh
Great video. I had a JVC HR-D970 that developed power supplies issues that were intermittent and similar after a complete recap. Ended up refreshing the solder joints and beefing up some of the traces but really had the best of me for awhile. I do have a question on another JVC machine, the HR-S10000U. It plays great but whenever I FF, REW etc the picture goes blank. Looking at the envelope, I’m not sure what the issue is. It definitely gets changes when it transitions. Any ideas on where I should look next? Thanks! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE--1AG2VYvpgk.htmlsi=zyrY99nw9gyHukDz
Fitting new upper drums used to be a daily task, but i doubt if you can find them today. I still have some in sealed packing for the once popular models and the repair kits, all which i will have to dispose of sooner or later.
@@12voltvids It never ceases to amaze me just how quickly demand for repairs drops once a new varient is launched. Laserdisc sales stopped as soon as DVD was announced despite the inferior performance of the early players and discs. Today we have 4K TV's that cant provide a decent HD or SD picture. thankfully my Plasma shows how it should look like.
