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Small home or cottage business ideas - what have you got?
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tautech:
Find a brand of TE that's not represented in your country then build a relationship with the manufacturer with the end goal of becoming their authorized distributor.
Rinse and repeat if you're keen enough.  :)
gildasd:
Flat screen repairs...
From what I’ve  seen and read, it is very often capacitors on the primary being insufficiently rated...
Nothing for a solder wrangler, dead TV for the rest of them.

In any case, try to specialise, you will get lost if you try being too many things.
bd139:
That's not a bad idea. My current television, a 32" Samsung 1080p smart TV cost me £0.99 thanks to one dried up capacitor and someone not wanting to post it :-DD
DTJ:

--- Quote from: gildasd on October 30, 2018, 08:39:45 am ---Flat screen repairs...
From what I’ve  seen and read, it is very often capacitors on the primary being insufficiently rated...
Nothing for a solder wrangler, dead TV for the rest of them.

--- End quote ---

Our council area has yearly hard rubbish collections. The verges have heaps of flat screen TVs dumped on them and I suspect lots have the exact problem you mention. Seems such a waste.
Messtechniker:
A friend of mine - an old age pensioner - started up repairing/refurbishing commercial coffee machines in his garage. From then on this thing grew and grew. Now he has rented a hall in an industrial area to stock the spare parts he needs.
He cheaply buys defective coffee machines which dealers have replaced. He then either repairs and thoroughly cleans them, and flogs them via ebay. Or, if unrepairable disassembles them for parts which he either retains for other repairs or flogs these too after cleaning and checking. He only does the mechanical side. PCB are replaced, if defectve. He does not do component level repairs. On occasion I help him out doing component level pcb repairs. By nature, he has always been precise and meticulous in his work.
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