A Success Story: On the nature strip lay a solitary TV

[Jamie Honan]

I successfully repaired a dumped Sony, using this newsgroup
and Sam Wasserman's pages.

I wrote up my story. I hope you enjoy it.

http://members.optusnet.com.au/jhonan/articles/20030716-tvrepair.html

Thank you everyone. I want you to know you are doing something wonderful.

Jamie

 

[Franc Zabkar]

I successfully repaired a dumped Sony, using this newsgroup
and Sam Wasserman's pages.

Credit where credit's due. That's Goldwasser, not Wasserman.

I wrote up my story. I hope you enjoy it.

http://members.optusnet.com.au/jhonan/articles/20030716-tvrepair.html

Thank you everyone. I want you to know you are doing something wonderful.

Jamie

- Franc Zabkar

 

[Mike Berger]

Take it as a warning. I was taught to snip off the power cord when something

I was disposing of was shorted or could be dangerous if powered up casually.


Jamie Honan wrote:
There is an evil person in the Ashfield neighbourhood. He snips the power
cords off
discarded electrical appliances. You can't test how much it might work, it
becomes that
much more unattractive to take the foster device in. A device that you
know will become a
bone of contention.

 

[Sam Goldwasser]

Take it as a warning. I was taught to snip off the power cord when something

I was disposing of was shorted or could be dangerous if powered up casually.

I do that beacuse the power cord is then the most valuable and still useful
part.

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[Jamie Honan]

I successfully repaired a dumped Sony, using this newsgroup

Credit where credit's due. That's Goldwasser, not Wasserman.

Oh. How did my memory play such a trick?

On sniping power cords:

Who drives round a suburb on Council pick up days
and snips every damn power cord?

 

[Gary Tait]

No doubt. Zip cord almost reaches the level of duct
tape in universal usefulness for all kinds of
quickie repair jobs.

MWM

Don't forget to include the strain relief, it may save you. I once
made a large wall-wart supply (12V, 1.5A or so) useful by eliminating
the prongs and installing a linecord from an old TV chassis, with the
strain releif. It almost looks original.

 

[Asimov]

to "All" (13 Aug 03 09:23:17)
--- on the topic of "Re: A Success Story: On the nature strip lay a solitary
TV"

GT> From: Gary Tait <[email protected]>

GT> On Wed, 13 Aug 2003 07:45:46 -0400, MWM

No doubt. Zip cord almost reaches the level of duct
tape in universal usefulness for all kinds of
quickie repair jobs.

MWM

GT> Don't forget to include the strain relief, it may save you. I once
GT> made a large wall-wart supply (12V, 1.5A or so) useful by eliminating
GT> the prongs and installing a linecord from an old TV chassis, with the
GT> strain releif. It almost looks original.


Reminds me of the old Coleco transformer power pak. There were two
types, one with the ac prongs and another with a length of zip cord and
strain relief. A far wiser solution since they were rather large and
easily fell off the wall socket from the weight alone. Left more room
around the socket too.

Asimov
******

.... Batteries not included.

 

[Gary Tait]

to "All" (13 Aug 03 09:23:17)
--- on the topic of "Re: A Success Story: On the nature strip lay a solitary
TV"

GT> From: Gary Tait <[email protected]>

GT> On Wed, 13 Aug 2003 07:45:46 -0400, MWM


GT> Don't forget to include the strain relief, it may save you. I once
GT> made a large wall-wart supply (12V, 1.5A or so) useful by eliminating
GT> the prongs and installing a linecord from an old TV chassis, with the
GT> strain releif. It almost looks original.


Reminds me of the old Coleco transformer power pak. There were two
types, one with the ac prongs and another with a length of zip cord and
strain relief. A far wiser solution since they were rather large and
easily fell off the wall socket from the weight alone. Left more room
around the socket too.

Asimov
******

... Batteries not included.

I have one of those (the corded type), and the Coleco it came with.
The Coleco plug is cut off, and a PC PSU HDD connector is attached.
I use it for testing 5V circuits. The one plug I modified to have the
-5V instead of two grounds, so I can use the level convertor from an
old IO card to do RS232 on my micro controller experimentor.
I have seen the wall wart type of Coleco supply at a surplus store.

 

[Sunny]

I successfully repaired a dumped Sony, using this newsgroup
and Sam Wasserman's pages.

I wrote up my story. I hope you enjoy it.

http://members.optusnet.com.au/jhonan/articles/20030716-tvrepair.html

Thank you everyone. I want you to know you are doing something wonderful.

Jamie

Well done! A man after my own heart.

My wife's sister believes that if you live in Ashfield, you never

have > to buy anything.

In hindsight, perhaps the sister would have been more compatible? <g>

I wonder how much stuff goes from the nature strip to eBay?

I've made $500 so far this year selling bits out of PCs I collected in
the block between the bus stop and my house on the way home from work -
after keeping the best stuff to build machines for my kids. I could
probably make half a living at this if I drove around the neighbourhood
a few times a week

 

[Sunny]

How do you get people to pay for shipping on what's probably old stuff?
Seems like a few bucks for the part and $10 for shipping wouldn't go over
very well?

The shipping cost is displayed along with the item description on eBay,
so potential buyers know what the bottom line will be before they bid.

Not that you don't have a good point - I don't bother with an eBay
listing unless the item regularly sells for at least $20. The rest gets
advertised on my local buy'n'sell newsgroup - an ATX case with power
supply isn't economical to ship, but someone always shows up at the door
with $15 cash within 48 hours of a newsgroup post. They rarely leave
without spending that much again on a couple of old ISA or PCI cards, or
a floppy drive, cables etc. Thirty bucks or so, plus the motherboard and
processor left over from their last upgrade, and they have most of the
bits needed to build a PC for the kids.