'melted' tape roller

From: Tony Duell <ard_at_p850ug1.demon.co.uk>
Date: Wed Feb 4 17:27:55 2004

> > You would be too if everyone just threw out their broken VCR
> > and bought a new one instead of trying to have it repaired :\
>
> Yes, there is that, particularly since he charged something like ukp50 just

FWIW, when I do 'chargeable' repairs (for HPCC members, when the machine
in question actually ends up on my bench, rather than just being a quick
fix at a meeting), then I charge that sort of price.

I don't regard this as unreasonable. It can take a _lot_ of time to
actually track down the fault (curing it is the easy part, once it's
found).

Maybe I'm clueless, but it took me 4 hours to sort out a 9114A disk drive
which had blown transistors in the head switching circuit. 4 hours
included cleaning and re-lubricating the eject mechnanism (a 'stock
fault' in these units), tracing the fault, soldering in 3 new SMD
transistors, checking the alignment of the drive, setting up the
controller adjustments, etc.

And yes, I had the schematics. Without them it would have taken even
longer...

-tony
Received on Wed Feb 04 2004 - 17:27:55 GMT