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My YT fix tale: friend was throwing out an LCD TV because of weird colours, like solarization. I asked him for it, spent an hour searching youtube and found a T
by ttctciyf 5y ago
My YT fix tale: friend was throwing out an LCD TV because of weird colours, like solarization. I asked him for it, spent an hour searching youtube and found a TV engineer video with a likely solution: unplug the data cable where it feeds into the screen and scrape it clean.
7 years later and the TV is doing daily duty as a monitor for watching streamed content. I clean the cable once or twice a year, and one time had to source a replacement capacitor from a roadside discarded TV to bring it back to life (again, thanks to YT info.)
- echelon 5y agoDid you tell your friend?
- ttctciyf 5y agoImmediately! ;-)
- saalweachter 5y agoI'm not actually sure if I ended up looking at YouTube or just regular old web results, but my personal internet trust fall was replacing an old window with a new one, where the steps went: 1. Go to store. Buy a window, some 2x4s, and some plywood sheeting. 2. Rip giant hole in the side of my house, removing the old window and everything within about 3 feet of it. 3. Google [how to frame a rough opening for a window]. 4. Follow the instructions. Granted, I already had some prior knowledge here -- I knew the term "frame" and "rough opening" -- but I was still amused with myself that I left an "acquire information about how to complete my task" step until the middle, when I had a giant hole in the side of my house.
- jazzyjackson 5y agoThe number of TVs thrown out because of a bad capacitor must be outrageous. Did you hear the one about the ribbon cable that only worked with bright light shining on it? https://hackaday.com/2016/01/22/fixing-broken-monitors-by-shining-a-flashlight/ https://hackaday.com/2016/01/22/fixing-broken-monitors-by-sh...