How Not to Repair a TV

[bainsidhe]

Pathetic. Don't you know it isn't a real repair attempt unless it involves duct tape?

[protege]

Duct tape, bailing wire, and Bondo...in fact

[ringo]

Looks like a CRT television. Do they even make those anymore?

The one pictured is a 37'' Olevia 237T12 720p Widescreen LCD HDTV. I have the 27" Olevia TV-227S11 720p Widescreen LCD HDTV that I won at a company xmas party 4 years ago. They are okay TVs too.

[Der Cute]

Dumb. Shit.

[ShadowBall]

I wonder if he did this while using a hair dryer and making some toast in the bathtub.

He sounds like he does TV repairs with the same grace as my mother's boyfriend. He bought a $600 LCD TV and couldn't get the built-in DVD player to do what he wanted it to, so he beat the shit out of the TV with a flashlight. Now the DVD player doesn't work and the TV is the source of many entertaining fights between him and my mother because neither of them can figure out how to make the damn TV work.

[mikoyan29]

REminds me of the time I worked in an AV repair shop for a school district for two summers. One time, we got a tape recorder and a bag of parts with a note that said, "Fix it".

[underemployeed]

The part that hurts my brain the most is the fact that IN THE PICTURE, you can see the screws. You know, the screws that you use to remove the casing so you can get to the innards of the TV. So the guy owned some sort of cutting object, but not a screwdriver?!

ETA: Not to mention the whole warranty-voiding thing... pretty sure most warranties say that owner attempts at repairs (which generally fail) void the warranty. Of course, who expects anyone to read the warranties anymore?

BUT, he didn't remove the taper evidant sticker over the hidden screw, therefore, I guess he is in the clear. The thing that makes this so ridiculous is you have a picture to hurt our brains with, I mean I can imagine telling the story, i would think WOW. but...... Now I want to be Rocco from Boondock Saints.

F$%kin'- What the f%$kin'. F$%k. Who the f^%k f$%ked this f$%king... How did you two f%$king f%$ks... think this was gonna repair the tv?????

[Yarnil]

You see, HE CUT A HOLE IN THE BACK OF THE TV.

No, he BROKE a hole in the tv.

[Betweenshades]

Yes, it is indeed a flatscreen LCD TV. We will fix it by figuring out what board(s) need(s) replacing and going from there. If I can find a back, I'll include it in the quote, but it's just cosmetic so it's not a huge deal.

As for how he got it off? Each slat was cut individually. It looked like he used a combo of heat and some kind of garden implement when you're looking at it in person. It's terrifying and amusing at the same time.

Oh, and bonus: apparently, he's done this before according to the tech. He was here a few weeks before I started with a different TV that he cut a hole in as well.

[MaseMan]

I guess he didn't notice the screw holes that allow you to remove the back panel off the TV (once you remove the screws, of course).

[taxguykarl]

I guess he didn't notice the screw holes that allow you to remove the back panel off the TV (once you remove the screws, of course).

You noticed that too? What was this SC thinking? Assuming for the sake of argument he was.

[energyguy]

I've done something like that once, TV/VCR combi that was completedly FUBAR'd, not fixable and no longer needed but there was a tape still in that i wanted. so with a screwdriver and a pair of pliers i pulled it apart, bent the entire VCR part to hell to get out a tape that i haven't even watched since.

[El Pollo Guerrera]

Maybe he had to perform an emergency TVectomy to let the bad smoke out? We all know that it's the smoke that makes the electronics go good...

Now that it won't work, he brought it to you, the priests of the ancient god of all things electronic, T'knobab'L.

[Kanalah]

Dang it, sweet tea really hurts when it comes out your nose.

And what about feeding it with rice to make the TV god's happy? Or is that just computers?

[gerund]

How to fix a VCR (not)

Shortly after VCRs first came out there was a story in the local Electronics magazine from a TV repair shop about a customer who brought in a VCR to be fixed.

Now anyone who knows about helical scan heads knows what they look like in a VHS recorder. Just look at the link if you don't.

The customer in this case said to the technician "I had a look inside to see if I could fix it, and I tried straightening the heads, but that didn't work."

Evidently he got a pair of multigrip pliers onto the head drum and bent the shaft until it was vertical. The technician could see the marks on the head drum where he had gripped it with the pliers.