Repair fails - Motivation

[tkamiya]

Happens all the time!  Tried to clean front panel.  Windex and soft cloth removed all the lettering!

It's just part of buying non-working bargain and trying to fix it.  I often buy multiple of non-working units, so I have readily available spare parts.  Of course I try to bring the price down so it makes sense. 

Don't give up.  It often makes financial sense to buy a second unit.  Even if it doesn't make financial sense, you'll learn for the next time.  Since you are doing this for yourself, there is no need for it to look "factory fresh."  You could also make do with home made parts.  I've done that many times.

[elektrolitr]

I tripped and dropped the TV into the floor.

My heart was shattered in as many pieces as the CRT was.

Once in my house, a Samsung CRT TV fell on the tiled floor from about 1.5 m height (the wall mount screws pulled out of the wall). I was really shocked to see it- not for TV, but for the recently tiled floor!

Luckily, the tiles survived without any damage. Funniest thing that the TV also survived- a small crack of the housing and barely visible purple tint in one corner. It was like 7-8 years ago and the TV is still working.

[najrao]

I spent a week to restore a very dodgy Avometer mark 8. Even the coil movement needed repair- open circuit fault. At the end, Oh boy, was I proud of my handiwork. Calibration spot on, eh? Balancing the movement? Fabulous.
I was about to put it away in my DMM cabinet. It was sitting on a tall metal work table. And I moved away reluctantly from it, to answer the SWMBO who had appeared at the door---
Only, I was still clutching the probe leads attached to the Avo. It landed on the vitreous ceramic floor in what some call a dull, and others a sickening, thud.
The floor tile was not at all damaged.
I have another Avo too.

[SilverSolder]

I tripped and dropped the TV into the floor.

My heart was shattered in as many pieces as the CRT was.

Once in my house, a Samsung CRT TV fell on the tiled floor from about 1.5 m height (the wall mount screws pulled out of the wall). I was really shocked to see it- not for TV, but for the recently tiled floor!

Luckily, the tiles survived without any damage. Funniest thing that the TV also survived- a small crack of the housing and barely visible purple tint in one corner. It was like 7-8 years ago and the TV is still working.

At an automotive test facility many years ago, a car was on a rolling road, "travelling" at 60mph.  The laptop that was monitoring the engine was standing on the fender...  and of course it fell down, into the rollers.  It was "run over" and got hurled across the workshop, hitting the wall on the opposite side where it then crashed to the floor...

The engineer ran over to pick it up...   and yes, the LCD screen (told you it was years ago) had shattered, the case was battered and bent...  but you could just make out behind the crazed glass that the thing was actually still running, and responding to mouse/ keyboard input! 

They don't make'em like that any more...