If you fool with that TV with a soldering gun, your wife will be charging medical bills.

Yeah...I've been reading about that too. Lots of volts in that thing. But from what I've read, they seem to be concentrated in two spots and I should be okay with the just changing this one capacitor. (Anyone have electrician gloves they wanna lend me, just in case?)

All you'll get is Procto gloves here.

I know mak...thank you. I really hate DE's hangnails.

Hey! I just got them trimmed up the other day.

Did you buy that new widescreen yet??

Still waitin' for parts in the mail. As soon as they get here, I'll attempt to electrocute myself...then buy the LCD.

Make sure you set up the webcam so we can all see you when that happens!

Now there's a good idea, you got a webcam TA?

You gays would of been bored. No explosions. Not even any really big sparks.

I changed one capacitor and one transistor...and presto...she works fine now. Now let's hope she stays like that.




Sad part is, I just found a nice 42" Samsung LCD that I kinda liked. Even my wipe said after I fixed it, "I'm slightly disappointed that it works".

You should have used my plan!

Like I said though...I didn't need to convince my wipe...just myself.

And I failed.



I spent $8 for the replacement parts ($7 of which was shipping). It was a big leap to the $1200 TV. And who knows...maybe in another year, I can get that same TV for $900.

In another year you will fall in love with a better TV that costs $1200.

Maybe...




Or maybe they'll have super cheap laser TV's by then!

I hope so. My Sony 46" projection HD turns 4 years old this month. It still has an awesome picture. I'm hoping it lives long enough to buy a Laser TV once the price comes down out of the clouds.

Well today the trusty old 52" projection TV started acting up.

It would go in to BW instead of color. I have a friend that works
at GE Medical who used to fix TVs. He came over and we gave this
TV a massive once over. Fixed a dozen or more cold solder joints
on several boards. Cleaned the mirror and the RGB light sources
and then re-aligned all the colors, skew, size, and position.

The think is looking better than new. Just finished about 2 hours ago.
It cost me a case of beer and some solder. This guy is amazing.

Alright you fuckers, our shop has a 42" plasma for sale for $500

We sold it to somebody who wanted a bigger one, and now we have that sucker sitting in the shop taking up space, still in the plastic that protects the screen.

And - BTW, I am an ex tv repairman. I cut my teeth in the business back in the days of vacuum tubes. And back then there was more then a few places that you could get a nice jolt to knock you on your ass. It's always fun watching the newbies get zapped for the first time.

Anyway if anybody is interested, (interested as in, you want to come to Chicago and pick up the fucker, cuz I ain't shipping it) send me a PM and I will get the brand and model # off it.

Get the brand and model please.

It may be going somewhere very soon.

Oh OJ, that's too generous for a housewarming gift!

In that case...I'm moving too....

OK this is the New and Improved story

I spoke to my installation manager about it and he tells me that we sold it to a lady who had it for 1 year, and then bought a 50" unit.

She asked him to sell it for her, and she is asking $700. It has been sitting here for a few months. He thinks that if we told her we had an offer of $500, that she'd probably just want to unload it and let it go for that.

It is a Samsung model P4261 plasma. Manufacture date is May 2004

If anyone is serious I will unwrap it and see if there is any cosmetic scratches on it. I was told that it works perfectly, but I have never hooked it up.

I would like to see it go away because it is in my server room taking up space.

Here is a video of that model Rock.

http://reviews.cnet.com/flat-panel-tvs/samsung-hp-p4261/4505-6482_7-31047154.html

I was thinking of it for me.

It is getting mixed reviews. $500 is a fair price, but I am going to take a pass.
When we take the plunge here I am going to want something that has a bit more punch
in the picture quality.