Turntable SOS : 'Repairing’ a Pioneer PL-88FS drawer-loading turntable 

I was really hoping for that.

defenatly !

Bring back the puppets!

The puppets should come to the judgement of every video, just because they're awesome !

denimadept I agree let’s hear from them !!

I'm sure another YTP is in the works right now.

Jac Goudsmit unrepairtainment! Lol

EEVBlog's been at this for years

Well coined start a TV trope might catch on.

@@CoverMechanic True, this has a different feel though, and I like it.

@@CoverMechanic Dave's like: Broken thing: exist Dave: Yeah, naaah.. It's beyond economic repair. :D

Or the RokBlok

Heck delivery people

Reminds me of Yodel.

@@r4nadon Royal Mail then they charge more if you complain.

@@slaughterround643 If they were paid a decent salary for ruining their backs and actually had enough time to carefully handle the crapload of Amazon packets they need to get out on a daily basis, then maybe they would give a crap. But no, people nowadays basically expect free delivery for everything.

Just ordered a board game from the UK to come to the USA. Game cost? 25 pounds. Shipping? 21 pounds or 17 pounds for a lighter box, my choice. "Put that sucker in a tank - I know how the USPS treats packages." (My local post office guy? Kid gloves and great care, so I won't put it on him. I put it on the automated machines and the guys who are there making sure they can keep up with the package volume.) Still, the amount of packages that arrive undamaged each day globally is truly astounding; so I tolerate my occasional damaged package (with moderate disappointment).

I used to watch a show called Monster Garage. It wasn't restoring vehicles but the same premise with the budget and whatnot. At first it was decent, they were given a budget and had to stay within it. Then as the show went on they were still given the same budget but would do things like "this brand new $10,000 motor was donated to us so it cost us $0" Come on, why even bother saying you have a budget.

@@HerecomestheCalavera Or Pimp My Ride for that matter. As snazzy as some of the cars may seem after being made over by West Coast Customs, they were by and large too "hot" and impractical for their owners to even consider using as a daily driver. On top of the fact that the participants had to rehearse their reactions as well.

MyMateVince keeps it real.

@@blakegriplingph There was one where the driver was an artist so they put paint guns on the car pointed down to paint the road. WTF?

@@HerecomestheCalavera Or that episode when West Coast customised a new SUV for a mechanic by installing monitors at the truck's undercarriage citing the owner's occupation.

You must have not watched his HD Laserdisc video

Experience, i think its good pay off

The ending shows that Mat is psychic.

Its dead jim.... You hold the platter and I'll steal the vinyl

Theseus's turntable ?

Which one would be the original? Oohhhh

Or as us common folk would say, Trigger's broom

When the shipper sends you lemons? Don't make lemonade! Make the shipper take the lemons back!. Get mad! You don't want their damn lemons! What are you supposed to do with those? Demand to see the shipper's manager! Make the shipper rue the day they thought they could give you lemons! Don't they know who you are? You're the person who's going to burn their house down! With the lemons! You're going to get your engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns their house down!

@@NamesForDogs I love that reference

@@NamesForDogs lol

well thanks for the spoiler i guess

Who reads the comments before watching the video, especially after that intro? Yeesh. And I know how you feel, CJC. I'm working on a project right this minute that I suspect is going to be broken down into spare parts.

@@TheRealColBosch don't take me too serious ;)

@@TheRealColBosch Best of luck to you!

@@cjc363636 I just about got it fixed. Without Photoshop, even!

I've had a yard broom for 25 years and it's as good as new. All it's needed is two new handles and three new heads!.

@@mikeos1 Trig!

At that point you've basically built a new car

I think thats why Edd left Wheeler Dealers, it got to the point where they would just throw money at a junk car instead of actually repairing salvageable cars.

I've spotted some of the repair shows displaying a different car all together at the end of it all. 😆. Just for the hollywood ending

Especially the undoubtedly intentional glitch at 14:33!

Love aging wheels!!!!

12VoltVids is another repair channel. Very focused on technician's repair of appliances though. And he is ornery (raw), which is a change in RU-vids world of more and more polished productions. (Not name dropping at all, no sirreee not me :)- )

I'd say that people need to be more mindful on how they pack things. He said that it wasn't properly packaged.

@@MagnusNilsson76 Both views are correct. I worked washing trucks for FedEx for a little while, and packages were tossed around and treated poorly all the time. It's just the way that the job gets done in such a quick fashion. Just imagine, you return from your shift, already an hour late, then you have to unload all the packages, some very heavy. It's just gonna happen, it sucks.

@@MagnusNilsson76 Agreed ,but that make it not okay to throw everything around. You sometimes see a courier searching that one package to deliver and spend 10 min throwing evering back and forward in de back of the truck to find package all beaten up. And the backside of better packaging is more weight ,more weight is more shipping cost and less chance to sell something. Why not just simple respect of somebody's property . I don't think a courier who shops for a tv throws it in a shopping cart and from there toss it in back of his truck or car and when he comes home with it give it a swing thru the front door. But that is what they do as a job.

At some point you're going to have to decide on a balance between acceptable risk and cost. You can't spend pennies per kg on shipping and expect it not to be done in the fastest way possible by the supply chain. The solution is either proper packaging or regulation

I think they made a pacrel throwing competition

I usually expect that from Fedex or UPS. USPS packages usually come with the least amount of damage in my neighborhood.

For such heavy stuff a wood frame is really needed for long distance transport...and perhaps add an inch of bubble wrap on top of that

USPS would just lose it.

The USPS isn't perfect, but when you think of the huge territory they have to cover, and hear a few absolute horror stories about other countries postal systems, it makes you really appreciate how well they are run.

It can be fun if you have loooots of time. We almost stopped repairing 80's equipment at my place because its mostly broken or breaking plastic parts and always differing electronic circuits. :P

What exactly does that mean? Was it not actuay fixed in the end? Was he just using that shelf for the jacks to test the sound? This is more ambiguious than the ending of The Thing

Was that when May wasn't on Top Gear?

@@LegoWormNoah101 possibly. Youd have to check the show's release date on imdb.

I'd be that guy who did whatever it took to get it working. I do understand techmoan's decision though. I've done the same with a few things.

Could be the special eBay Global Shipping Program ordeal. I know they will repackage parcels for efficiency, throw out the original box and all the extra fluff, put it in a smaller box after they wrap 2mm of bubble wrap around it.

Each courier probably played their part but it was probably the last leg being thrown around by DPD in the back of their vans.

Blame Pat the Postman! Ever since his show got canceled, he doesn't care about his job lol

It doesn' t even have to be international. I bought a second hand cordless drill from another city, about 100 miles from here. It was bubble- wrapped and in a cardboard box but as it arrived, the box was crushed and the body of power tool was literally shattered. And no- one to blame but myself for not going to collect in person.

At least it showed up... For months dozens of packages were just not being delivered in my area all last year and almost through Christmas. After many complaints someone put up a game camera and caught the postal worker taking packages and throwing them into the woods (presumably to retrieve later). After all the complaints the post office only finally took action because of the video. And all they did was fire her, no charges to my knowledge and wouldn't even give her name for us to file charges. No offer of any replacement... nothing. All the way up to the highest national level we were able to contact. They make the numbers very hard to find and eventually will stop answering your calls. The only thing they would say is contact the shipper and see if they will replace them. Though the shipper didn't employ the thief or have anything to do with the problem. Between myself, my mother a few miles away, and some other people I know in the area we had thousands of dollars worth of packages go missing with no solution or even any attempt of a solution at all. Keep in mind not all online retailers offer different shipping methods or insurance (and they're all equally terrible anyways) for the "free market" to push the best to the top. I know my rant isn't exactly on topic but as you can probably tell I'm still a little pissed about it.

@@Okurka. Haha I know but hey at least he's learning no matter how slow the progress is

Another broken one or few so he can frankenstein kit

This isn't Photonicinduction.

Go to the seller on Ebay, "Not as advertised" they have to do the work. Them's the rules.

@@kcuhc84 he said it was advertised as not working. But it then got destroyed in transit, but if you have a go at fixing it yourself I don't think your allowed your money back. He probably already had his money back (not worth shipping back). Always pick up big fragile things yourself

I'm glad you said from the shipping company and not the seller. So many people would open a case against the seller when it isn't their fault. Unless it was very poorly packaged.

@@HerecomestheCalavera I think he said it was badly packaged.

@@HerecomestheCalavera The claim should be against the seller, and I say that as a business seller on eBay of some 17 years, simply because it is they who have a contractual relationship with the courier. The buyer claims from the seller, the seller claims from the courier--assuming that the goods were appropriately packed--the courier refunds then improves its handling processes. Well, maybe the last of those is a little fanciful but the principle stands. A seller's responsibility is to supply the goods as advertised. That they contract an agent (a courier or postal service) to fulfil the obligation doesn't shift the liability. The only case in which a buyer should be expected to claim against a carrier is where they have employed them directly, for example, where an product is advertised as being available only for collection and a buyer arranges for a third party to collect on their behalf. Any issue of claims is, of course, complicated by the fact that the turntable was sold as non-working, parts only. Nevertheless, if the condition was significantly different from the description then the seller remains liable.

Simon Smith Good luck with that. I had a very expensive package that got damaged during shipping. I had insurance and filled a claim with FexEx and sent them pictures. The next day I got a response saying that they reviewed the claim and are not covering the damage. When I called them for an explanation the lady I talked to was by far the rudest cunt that I’ve ever had the displeasure of speaking to. Fed ex insurance is a flat out scam.

@@nutz4gunz457 Yeah well packet service companies are the worst. They're the ones who mess up but they never fix anything. Here in the Netherlands, if your package gets lost or damaged, by law it is the senders responsibility so you have to either refund or resend the shipment. The packetservice just gets away with it.

Since he bought it on eBay the seller is obligated to cover shipping damage. It sucks for both parties, but this happens relatively often with used hifi equipment on eBay. I swear half the shit I've bought ends up this way, including a beautiful tape deck and my first Yamaha reciever..

@@nutz4gunz457 Well remember that the seller also has a responsibility to properly pack things, even well packaged items can sometimes get damaged but if done right it should be pretty rare and the damage fairly minimal, now I don't know if I would ask for a refund on this since they'll likely want the player back, but you can always ask for a partial refund and the sellers will usually oblige.

At least he received it. My Hermes lost a parcel I sent tracked and signed. Their own tracking said "left in porch". Although I got a refund it took about 3 hours of phone calls, form filling etc. In hindsight not worth it for a £50 parcel.