Sleeving of 5 core cable for lighting circuit.

[johnboy6083]

1977? flaming youngster. i was just getting into VCR repairs as these were new fangled contraptions and as a TV repair company, we had to learn how to fix these as well.

My mentor when I was training also did TV, video repairs. He said he spent a lot of time getting qualified, only for it to go down the pan after a few years.
Almost like PV eh?

 

[telectrix]

yeah, mine went down the pan 1980. the stuff got more reliable and punters would not spend £30 repairing the old TV when they could get a brand new one for a tenner down and change of address. was good while it lasted , though. esp. over crimbo. instead of a tenner call-out, it was a score and i was doing 15 calls a day.

 

[Robotstar5]

The TV repairman would tap the valves with a screwdriver, replace a couple, maybe solder in a new component, those were the days. He would need a microscope these days with SMT, but as said TV's are so cheap you just replace them.

 

[telectrix]

tap the valves with a screwdriver.

good old days. when cpc first started, they sold 2nd hand valves from stripped out scrap TVs. they came individually wrapped in newspaper at a fraction of the cost. look at cpc now.