bktheking
Gitter Done!
Local friend of mine got chatting about this 700T tuner he's had at the repair shop for 2 YEARS- yes YEARS, not week or months. I asked him what was wrong with it- lights up, no sound no nothing. I offered up my services in the winter and got the call yesterday saying "come pick it up". Got it on the bench and sure enough nothing was working- he provided me with a copy of the service manual which was an essential for this complex beast. Traced the power supply +14 was reading 10. The shop it was at had already replaced one of the small recitifiers in circuit so it had to be a transistor as the caps were replaced and the resistors measured fine- pulled, checked, dead, replaced with a 2sc1815. Put it back together- fired it up- lights started working that weren't from before. That was it- a single transistor. I aligned the dial and tuned onto 103.3 CBC radio - perfect, a little jazz to finish off the repair.
I could never do that to a customer- 2 YEARS?! There are several shops in Ottawa and i'm not going to say which one it is but if the shop happens to read the post- what's the excuse on keeping a piece of gear for 2 years and then handing it back for what it went in for? On top of that it now has a faint hairline scratch on the face plate! Not cool.
I could never do that to a customer- 2 YEARS?! There are several shops in Ottawa and i'm not going to say which one it is but if the shop happens to read the post- what's the excuse on keeping a piece of gear for 2 years and then handing it back for what it went in for? On top of that it now has a faint hairline scratch on the face plate! Not cool.
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