Bang and Olufsen Beocentre 2422
I bought this some months ago with a view to restoring it. I was relaxing in the south of France and just looking through some old hi-fi on eBay, this one caught my eye as it was not far from where I...
View ArticleLG Backlight Horror
A recent arrival at my workshop, the backlights were working but the picture had a lot of shading on the right hand side and bottom of the screen. It seemed there were a few LED’s out…as it happened...
View ArticleAiwa Direct Drive Turntable
I was brought this old turntable because it was cutting out on one channel, this was cured by replacing the phono leads, an easy enough job, but another fault was that it wasn’t lifting off at the end...
View ArticleTuesday 09/10/18
First job today was a problem with too much signal, yes it’s just as bad as not having enough! Obviously something common to the aerial because all three tv’s in the house were breaking up. Measuring...
View ArticleThursday 11/10/18
First call today was a nice drive up to Wheddon Cross, some channels missing and others breaking up. The main problem was that the tv’s were all tuned to the Welsh, this can cause problems as the tide...
View ArticleFriday 12/10/18
Workshop Day I had quite a few repairs building up, most of them needing parts fitted, the first two this morning required some really delicate soldering, an AS-15 Gamma Correction chip on a Samsung...
View ArticleTuesday 16/10/18
This tangle of wires was what I found in someones loft, all I had gone there to do was to get one socket working and add a new socket in a downstairs room, all the other sockets in the house were...
View ArticleThe Bang and Olufsen 1001
A lovely B&O 1001 turntable from the early 70’s I was working on earlier, the beauty is in it’s simplicity, a motor, a very simple mechanism and a tonearm is all it needs to sound superb. And the...
View ArticlePioneer SA-6200
I had this one in for repair recently, according to it’s owner it was bought second hand in the 1980’s and has never gone wrong, if only modern equipment was that well built! It had gone down on one...
View ArticleSharp VZ3000
Another Sharp vertical HiFi in for repair, this one in very clean condition. According to it’s owner it had been bought new 36 years ago and then been stored behind a sofa for many years. All the belts...
View ArticleAerial Groups
These last few weeks have been very busy with the change of frequency on the Mendip transmitter. The BBC channels which were being transmitted on channel 49 have moved to channel 32, on the whole this...
View ArticleProblems with the Carhampton relay
Since mid July I’ve been getting more and more reports of problems receiving the Carhampton relay. My first thought was that the relay had a fault and I reassured my customers that it would be up and...
View ArticleWeek 1 2020
Thursday First call this year was a farm bungalow in Cutcombe suffering from no / poor signal. They had a pretty poor, but recently fitted, log periodic aerial on the chimney. In this area that was not...
View ArticleWeek 2 2020
Monday First job was out in Burrow, a quick set up of a second hand Sony tv she had been given by a friend. An easy enough job once I had run the gauntlet of six Jack Russells, once on the way in and...
View ArticleWeek 3 2020
Monday A bit of a puzzle this morning, I had to go to Sticklepath near Washford where they were receiving a very poor signal from the Midlands. I discounted the Midlands remark, assuming they were just...
View ArticleThe Sharp VZ-3150
I’ve had a couple of these in for repair over the last year, when working well they’re a pretty good Hi-Fi with a sought after retro vibe. This one, however, arrived in a pretty poor state, it looked...
View ArticleThe Sony TC-K81 Tape Deck
I had this lovely old tape deck dropped in for repair recently, my customer had recently bought it and had been told it needed belts, this seemed reasonable seeing as it was built around 1980, he even...
View ArticleMore trouble with trees and satellite reception
This was an existing customer at an old manor house, they had used me for satellite problems in the past and now called me out to see if I could find somewhere more accessible for the satellite dish....
View ArticleArcam Alpha 7 CD Player
I had this one in with distorted audio, plus with no disc playing it produced a bad hum through the amp. First thing to do was rule out the amp…all other sources worked perfectly so I was quickly able...
View ArticlePanasonic NV-HD650
I used to repair these videos by the dozen, a very common fault was not loading or ejecting the tape…and if the tape is stuck in the loading tray it makes getting the thing to pieces very difficult....
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