STAPLES STORES WILL TAKE OLD COMPUTERS

From: Chris <mythtech_at_Mac.com>
Date: Wed Feb 20 22:27:05 2002

>I've come up against a few companies that do that. It's the reason I'll
>no longer consider Sharp products, for example.

Odd... here in the States, Sharp will deal directly to the public... you
don't even have to go thru a reseller (I have actually picked up Sharp
parts by driving up the road to the Sharp factory and just walked in... I
got a bunch of drive tires that way). Unless their policy has changed in
the last 5 or 6 years (last sharp part I bought was a remote for a TV
about 6 years ago).

>Hmmm... Is there a PAL equivalent to this deck?

Don't know... I'm not even sure how to check, as the TV/VCRs are OEM'd by
Funai, but sold under the name Symphonic, and there is almost no info
about them on the company web site (too old I guess)

>There are also sets of felt washers available to
>be used to rebuild worn-out VCR clutches if it's that type of device. Or
>can you do the old kludgers trick of turning the friction washer over or
>something?

They are felt clutches... and I tried rebuilding them with new felts...
no luck... I couldn't seem to get it exactly right (never found exactly
the right thickness). It always ended up either too little friction and
it ate the tape, or too much friction and it stretched the tape.

At least the TVs still work fine... so I gave them out to family/friends
to use as 13" remote control, cable ready TVs. I still keep my eyes open
hoping some day to find a way to get the replacement parts so I can get
the VCRs working again.

Its actually about time for me to give Funai another call and see if they
will sell me parts (I bug them about every 6 months, figure maybe one of
these times I'll get someone who doesn't know any better and will sell me
the stuff... of course, one of my pit falls is, they will only sell via
part number, and the clutches aren't stamped, so they need to look up the
part, which keys them off that I am not an authorized repair center, and
they nix the order... so I guess if I can just find the part number I
might be golden to sneak thru)

-chris

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