Dang, not another one!

firkin

firkin

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Well looks like my TV died.

Won't scan anymore. Just a horzontal line accross the center of the screen. I presume that's not worth getting fixed even if I could find somebody that still works on them?

Now I've got that and two dead computer monitors. It's like Sanford and Son around here.

Costs something like $20 bux a pop to properly dispose of things with CRT tubes too.

All up, that's the cost of one of Uncles' specials :(

Hate it when you can't get stuff fixed and have to throw the whole thing out for want of one piece, or everthing is monolithic, so it costs less to get a new one.
 
well I can still listen to the news I guess.

But I did like watching the critter programs on PBS.

At least I'm not paying for cable.
 
No thanks, there's shiploads of lead and nasty phosphors in those things. Been exposed to enough hefty doses of stuff as it is.

I think there might be some cool magnets I could take out though.
 
There's a chance you can get superpowers from those. If it were me, I'd take the risk.
 
firkin said:
No thanks, there's shiploads of lead and nasty phosphors in those things.
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HEY! *I* didn't put them there! :mad:
 
Yep, the best part is you can see 'em while you're in your house, or in a cave, or where-ever. All the time. You can do astronomy anywhere.
 
Tape a target to the screen, back off ten or twenty yards and start shooting. Ensure that the wind is blowing so that everything blows away from you. Cleanup with a shovel.
 
Firkin?


Obviously, you are missing an opportunity here.

The TV wants to join show business with you as a member of a comedy team!

So.....(are you ready?)...


(really ready?)...









It's giving you a straight line! :D


Kis
TheUnrepentant


(edit: Ok, here, I'll help you with this:

straight man
n.
The partner in a comedy team who feeds lines to the other comedian, who then makes witty replies.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition Copyright © 2003 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.


so...... The GREAT humor in my comment is that the TV is..... sigh....nevemind.) :(
 
errr I've had two TV's go south like that since I moved to Kentucky. Both times, could change channels, but the only picture was at the bottom of the screen, and it wasn't something you could watch. Both times it was the channel control module (whatever that is) $250 for a fix at the local shop.

HTH

Computer monitors?

Donate them to charity.
 
$250? yikes. I think I paid $350 for the thing but that was about ten years ago. I bet now I could get the next size down for $250. Less for a cheaper brand.

Doesn't sound like the same problem. This is one scan line across the center. So the electrons are coming out of the center at the back of the tube, being scanned across, but not up and down.

One of my computer monitors died the same way. No channel selector there. On the other one the power supply went out, from the way it acts. Charity won't take dead ones. They check before taking them. It is illegal to throw them away, and ya gotta pay to give them to a "certified" recycle place. Stuff without the CRT the recycle place will take for free. The CRTs counted as "hazardous waste" or close to it. Techically, you're not even supposed to toss a cell phone becuse of lead solder in the PC boards.

Looks like if I want TV I be buying a cheapie somewhere. I guess if I pay the $20 to the recycle place part of it will get reused. Just seem like such a waste not to fix it.

Like shoes that can't be resoled.
 
Actually, the way these things work, you can probably get the next size UP for your $250 now.
 
Firkin, I had a tv do the same thing (dark screen with single horizontal line) and it turned out to be a simple thing (part) and cost less than $30 to fix at a tv repair shop.
 
I like Bill's idea best. Except I would use a bow......(sorry, no guns at my house)
 
Russ Kay said:
Actually, the way these things work, you can probably get the next size UP for your $250 now.
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Just make sure to double-check the size of the doorways it'll have to go through
:confused: .
 
Leave the glass in, take out all the componets, seal all the cracks & holes......fill with water for a fish tank or put plants into it.......er, DON'T plug it back into the wall socket either way :)

Just my 1/2 cents
 
VML,

I was hoping somebody would say that.

I had a pretty nice Sears stand-up vacuum cleaner break on me, went to a vacuum repair store, and the guy said, only Sears could fix it, they have a lock on the parts for stuff with their name. Then he gave me an old Sears machine from his junk pile that he was going to toss. I found the part and fixed mine.

Course, now I have the old vacuum cleaner sitting around here too.

Maybe I can make a sculpture or something out of all the stuff.
 
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