Daylights burning & set yer clocks back: November Cawfee

[Ozark Tracker]

used to be back in the late 50' and 60's if ya had TV trouble you just took your tubes out and went to the hardware stores and put em in their machine and replace the bad one. anymore what ever happens to a circut board usually costs an arm and leg.   

[Tensleep]

anymore what ever happens to a circut board usually costs an arm and leg.   

Usually cheaper to just buy a new one, but with this push for HDTV they can charge what they want to. 

[Ozark Tracker]

Usually cheaper to just buy a new one, but with this push for HDTV they can charge what they want to. 

you remember when the first circut board T V's came out they had small individual boards that could be replaced seperately, then they went to the big boards.   cost of the TV to replace.

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[Trinity]

It's all relative.  If you look at the cost of an average TV (which was no where near the size of today's average TV) in the '50s adjusted for inflation, you would see that the consumer is still winning.  Maybe not the American worker, but the consumer is.

I do wish things were a little more "renewable".  I'd love to have a TV repaired instead of throwing all that plastic into the landfill.

[Ozark Tracker]

I know it used to be you could fix almost anything like that, any more and it just won't happen, cost too much 

[Trinity]

It's too bad that we live in a disposable world.  It's just so easy to throw away and buy new.

[Ozark Tracker]

I can remember when I was a kid and I bet Tensleep can too, people talking about if you'd become a T V and Radio repairman you'd get rich, time I got to that point, ya'd a starved to death trying to repair TV's and Radio's   

[Tensleep]

I can remember when I was a kid and I bet Tensleep can too, people talking about if you'd become a T V and Radio repairman you'd get rich, time I got to that point, ya'd a starved to death trying to repair TV's and Radio's   

I do remember that.
I also remember when the "tube tester" was put in the 7-11 and folks started to try and fix their own radios and TVs.

First "transistor" radio I ever saw was tha size if a six pack and had a case and shoulder strap, made it portable. 

[Lucky Irish Tom]

I remember what yer talkin bout O.T.  Course back in them days the screen was about 8 inches and the cabinet that held it was huge.  Took a while for the screen size to get much bigger than 19 inches and by then even with plastics that thing was so heavy you couldn't carry it in to a repair place.

[Ozark Tracker]

I remember the first year in college, I got a portable recorder to take notes off of.  it had that strap yer talking about, used cassettees but it was big   but everything before that was reel to reel

[Sod Buster]

The Broadcast vendors I deal with (Sony, Panasonic, etc) like to say "No user servicable parts inside".
If it breaks, send it to them to repair.  Most times they just swap a circuit board.  It makes the maintenance techs at the TV stations frustrated 'cuz their job is being eliminated.  There is less and less for them to fix.  

[Lucky Irish Tom]

Finally finished my Honey-Do project, here's a couple of pictures!

[Ozark Tracker]

well it looks from here like ya done a good job.  sure has changed the looks of things I bet. 

[Ozark Tracker]

Sodbuster, seems like you see that no user servicealble parts on everything electronic anymore.

[Trinity]

Finally finished my Honey-Do project, here's a couple of pictures!

Very nice LIT!!

I remember the first year in college, I got a portable recorder to take notes off of.  it had that strap yer talking about, used cassettees but it was big   but everything before that was reel to reel

    and here I always thought my mini-cassette recorder was awfully big compared to some of the other kids'.

The Broadcast vendors I deal with (Sony, Panasonic, etc) like to say "No user servicable parts inside".
If it breaks, send it to them to repair.  Most times they just swap a circuit board.  It makes the maintenance techs at the TV stations frustrated 'cuz their job is being eliminated.  There is less and less for them to fix. 

There are still some shops that repair electrical components for industry.  However, having them do anything voids any kind of warranty and the manufacturer will often not even touch something that has been interfered with by a third party.

[Ozark Tracker]

when I was in college, I was in electro-mechanical  tecnology, we went on a field trip to Texas Instruments plant near Dallas, they told us what a chip was and showed us one that would do 900 operations, it was about the size of a half dollar, said they thought they could make it smaller and if they could they could make a calculator small enough to fit your shirt pocket.  we all just smiled, we didn't have anything then except for the big 10 key calculators that plugged in.   

[Arcey]

Pret snazzy, cousin.

Ain’t no reason ta be concerned with recyclin’ nothin’ ‘round here. The contract folks done mismanaged their company so badly they’re about broke ‘n they been tossin’ recyclables in a landfill anyway.

Do have a nice, blue 90 gallon roll-around can belongs ta them they dump ever two weeks. Got ’em a pretty truck with ‘green’ slogans painted on it. ‘Cept garbage I’ll use it fer anything. All goin’ ta the same place.

Sumthin’ like a TV I’ll call the city’s special pick-up. With the solid state stuff I’ve only lost one since ’89. That’n got fried in a thunder storm.

[Scarlet Angel]

Evenin' Fellas,

Yesterday, we dined on racoon...wasn't bad, I'm sure it would have been better if we'd had a good receipe (hint hint). It went in the pressure cooker with some taters, onion and carrots.

Finally finished my Honey-Do project, here's a couple of pictures!

Very nice!

[Ozark Tracker]

Miss Scarlett,

 I've ate a few of them coon's in my life,   
 my aunt used to make the best,  she started by soaking the coon in buttermilk or salt water, either will do, seemed to me I liked buttermilk better, leave it over night or  12 hours or more. then she would roast it like beef roast, had a little rack in the bottom of the pot that held the meat and potato's and carrots kinda up above the liquid, she said it preventing the cooked out fat getting back to the meat.  she just seasoned it like you would a roast.

[Stoney Pete]

"bring out yer dead."   Kids with hungovers don't have no sense of humor.

  Serves 'em right.

Finally finished my Honey-Do project, here's a couple of pictures!

nice work Honey.

Eagles are making game of it.