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• Oct 1, 2019

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this goes back a long time. i wound upmy TV repair business in 1980 due to customers being able to replace a faulty set ( maybe a £30 repair bill) with a brand new ine from Comet/Currys/ etc. £5 deposit and a change of address.

 

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• Oct 1, 2019

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I always thought front loading washing machines were a flawed design anyway. All that weight of the full drum only supported by one bearing ( well two but only inches apart) maximum over stress and only a matter of time until it fails.

 

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• Oct 1, 2019

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telectrix said:

this goes back a long time. i wound upmy TV repair business in 1980 due to customers being able to replace a faulty set ( maybe a £30 repair bill) with a brand new ine from Comet/Currys/ etc. £5 deposit and a change of address.

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It would only be the picture valve anyhow Tel. Les Laury-Jones told me.

 

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It would only be the picture valve line output stage pentode. anyhow Tel. Les Laury-Jones told me.

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corrected that for you. .

 

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• Oct 1, 2019

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Hey Tel, I was a telly repair man back then as well.

 

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telectrix said:

corrected that for you. .

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Hybrid chassis? Big tellies

 

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• Oct 1, 2019

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most peoples logic is they can buy and use till it blows up a £200 WM then just scrap it after 18 months , then rinse and repeat...
The thought of having the same WM for 20 years and keep repairing it would be totally alien now to anyone under 40

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I agree... I find it amusing/sad/despairing/ironic that it tends to be the youth that 'bang-on' the most about the need to save the planet... yet it is them that have absolutely no idea it's how they live that is causing it !! For a good visual example... just look at the waste left behind at Glastonbury !

 

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Hey Tel, I was a telly repair man back then as well.

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yep, the thorn 3000 and 3500 were a great revenue source. along with the Philips G8, i think, and them awful dog sh*t by Bush.

 

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"picture valve" the good old over stressed PL81 usually.
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Yes, I remember them well, the Thorns with their innovative "chopper transistor."

 

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Hey Tel, I was a telly repair man back then as well.

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Like this Philips TX400 ??

 

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I think that'ts about 1950s with its round tube.

 

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Like this Philips TX400 ??

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You'd get people sitting on that, these days......for a purpose of course

 

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• Oct 1, 2019

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Could probably use it as an X-ray machine.

 

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• Oct 1, 2019

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My folks had an American style frigidaire fridge for 30 years...left it in their house when they sold it. 15 years later I was passing by the old house and saw a guy in the garden, so stopped and chatted to him...yup, he still had that fridge, in his garage full of beer!
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I love the old valve radios...a mate has about 50 of them scattered around his huge house, and I am so jealous! He has boxes of valves too...things of beauty.
My oldest item is a Hacker Sovereign...still awaiting restoration.

 

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• Oct 1, 2019

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I've got a Hacker Autocrat. Repaired it by changing a resistor in the amplifier section, and also fitted a Bluetooth module to play the phone through it. Sounds lovely.

 

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