Ran into a retired TV repairman at Denny's last month

He saw me looking at the menu board and said, 'You know, 90 percent of flat screen failures are just bad caps on the power supply. Check those first.' I had been swapping whole boards for weeks. Has anyone else gotten a tip from an old-timer that saved them real time?

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harperwright19d ago

Dead right about those caps. I had a TV that would click on and off, almost swapped the whole power board before an old ham radio guy pointed out the swollen tops. Ten minutes with a soldering iron and thirty cents in parts later it was good as new.

thomas29119d ago

An old machinist told me to check the brushes in power tools before buying new ones. Saved me from tossing a perfectly good drill.