[Jukebox-list] Re: Design/serviceperson

[wbabbott at cox.net]

Your guys discussion thread reminds me of one of my Tube Radio Club members who is a retired TV Repair Service Tech. During our recent Radio Club Christmas Party he was telling me about the highlite ups and downs of his career. His Number One bad memory was the Philco Predicta TV. He said you had to have hands of a child to work through the ports on the chassis to change components and the sets were constantly in the shop. He couldn't believe that the Predicta is now the #1 collectible TV. I've read through some of the history of the Philco since I restore old Philco radios from the 1930s. It 's apparent that the Philco Design Engineers put Philco out of business with the Predicta.
Happy New Year and long live good Service Techs...
Britt
---- Ron Rich <ronnnrich at yahoo.com> wrote: 
> Exactly what I was hoping for--Ron Rich
> 
> Ron <tracron at bigpond.net.au> wrote:  --Yes and when it fails there we have the experiance to help you. Grin.
> Ron from OZ.
> --- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Ron Rich" 
> To: "Jukebox mailing list" 
> Sent: Monday, January 01, 2007 4:02 AM
> Subject: Re: [Jukebox-list] Re: Design/serviceperson
> 
> 
> > Ron,
> > Question---If it's already 2007 there, does that mean that failures will 
> > occur there first ??
> > Happy New Year to all, when ever it happens, wherever you are !! Ron Rich
> >
> > Ron wrote:
> > I was lucky enough to have a electronics engineer teach me the basics on 
> > a
> > CRO, I also asked him why they put a large wattage resistor so close to a
> > electrolytic capacitor in a circuit I was practising on.
> > This was to induce a failure in the component in a certain number of hours
> > so as to require replacement.
> > The design of these PCB will let them predict when it will fail within 14
> > days because of a deliberate failure in design.
> > That's now, so why can it not be back then when the older boxes were made.
> > If it never failed why would you replace it, the service professionals and
> > the enthusiasts have extended the life of the machines well after the use 
> > by
> > date by decades.
> > We repair them and in many cases they designed them from scratch and there
> > still around to day.
> > Happy New Year to all, we are already in 2007 here.
> > Ron from OZ
> >
> >
> >
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