Yeah, all the time. In fact, I'm repairing one right this minute. If anyone reading this is near the uws in nyc and has a ruef400 or similar pptc fuse handy I'l

Yeah, all the time. In fact, I'm repairing one right this minute. If anyone reading this is near the uws in nyc and has a ruef400 or similar pptc fuse handy I'll trade you for a beer! Email in profile :) As far as dangerous home electronics repairs go, CRTs were pretty much the top of the list and they're all but gone now. Normal 110v work is rarely that dangerous even if you mess it up and most things aren't even 110v anymore - lots of consumer electronics just take a standard 5 or 12VDC or whatever. Besides, 90% of electronic repair is "find the burnt, hot or damaged component and replace it"; you're not exactly designing your own powerboard from scratch. Hell, there are hundreds of thousands of products on Amazon with hot 110V metal cases, which is pretty much the worst imaginable thing, and yet few people get injured by them - the reality is that whatever sin you possibly commit in your DIY repair has a tiny chance of causing any real world injury. But more to my point, these days doing your own repairs are unusual, sixty years ago it was often included in the instruction manual. Even the cheap shitty stuff is less cheap and shitty than it once was; smaller, more efficient parts, SMD components, "sealed lifetime" bits, unrepairable materials etc.