13-11-2016, 11:24 AM
One of my instructors back in '71, summed things up nicely by sayng 'Theory without practice is Lame, and practice without theory is Blind' IN fact during the first half of the course, mornings were devoted to theoretical teaching, and afternoons devoted to practical work, from building first a valved AM radio, then a transistor set, progressing on to repairin commercial designs, Monochrome TV coming later, followed by detailed instructions on how to set up a colour TV, though the course didn't cover repairing them. Most of those onthe course went on to be TV Field engineers, whilst I repaired car radios & stereos in a workshop. Like you, Sparks, I wonder how I would cope if I was learning the trade today. It's a whole different ball game now, with such as computers, mobile phones, DVD & Blue Ray, plus Flat panel TVs of various kinds. Many of these things, from what I can gather, don't get repaired out of warranty, and, in my limited experience of modern gear, some of it is uneconomic to repair, a situation which can only get worse as time goes on. There's a posting over on UKVRRR called 'Recycling Old TVs' which indicates that a lot of them simply get taken away for scrap in any case!
