08-12-2016, 11:21 AM
(This post was last modified: 08-12-2016, 11:21 AM by Murphyv310.)
Two things come to mind.
One was a good number of years ago, a Bush TV22 with height creep and line oscillator drift. The guy told me he wanted totally it original and the work done by another repairer was to be left as is.
What had been done was very neat and tidy, no complaints at all with the workmanship. The problem was the early 50's resistors had been padded with small 8th watt resistors to bring the wildly out of spec resistors back within tolerance. The problem was a number of the old resistors were failing which caused the issues. The caps had been restuffed with modern types.
I explained to the customer that the resistors needed replacement and padding was no use. It landed in stalemate and he took the set away. About a year later he came back and said it stopped working completely, the result of the conversation was that I got the go ahead to do the necessary. On completion and return to the customer I was thanked very much and a letter received a couple of months later was very nice and complementary saying the set was 100 times better than ever. So sometimes sticking to your guns pays off.
One thing I have said to the Phools who have say a classic car is this. Would you fit an over-sill to the existing sill? Surely you would cut out the old rusty mess first and fit a sill of the right spec and dimensions rather than an oversize one to cover the mess. Usually I find this approach works wonders.
One was a good number of years ago, a Bush TV22 with height creep and line oscillator drift. The guy told me he wanted totally it original and the work done by another repairer was to be left as is.
What had been done was very neat and tidy, no complaints at all with the workmanship. The problem was the early 50's resistors had been padded with small 8th watt resistors to bring the wildly out of spec resistors back within tolerance. The problem was a number of the old resistors were failing which caused the issues. The caps had been restuffed with modern types.
I explained to the customer that the resistors needed replacement and padding was no use. It landed in stalemate and he took the set away. About a year later he came back and said it stopped working completely, the result of the conversation was that I got the go ahead to do the necessary. On completion and return to the customer I was thanked very much and a letter received a couple of months later was very nice and complementary saying the set was 100 times better than ever. So sometimes sticking to your guns pays off.
One thing I have said to the Phools who have say a classic car is this. Would you fit an over-sill to the existing sill? Surely you would cut out the old rusty mess first and fit a sill of the right spec and dimensions rather than an oversize one to cover the mess. Usually I find this approach works wonders.
