Where I worked in the Boston 'burbs there are only a few still
working out of the house. Wont do anything over 10 yrs old. Period.
No more mom & pops. Used to be everywhere & so much work you turned a lot down.
Abt 10 yrs ago I went to my last seminar. I was the youngest
there at 50. Most over 70 & doing it to get out of the house.

If you can get a phone book from the 70's & look under TV
repair. Pages of shops & big ads, a major industry GONE.

73 Zeno

Used to be 6 shops in my town. All are gone.. Ironicly, the shop that taught me how to fix tvs as a kid i just visited his house and bought some of the leftover tools and parts left from the store uptown he closed months ago..

Definately sad days for tv repair techs.. Its a disposable world these days...

SR

There seem to be more than four places that claim to repair tv sets in Port St. Lucie, I went to the one in front of our bowling alley and made a stupid request for a late '70s Zenith System 3 remote control. I couldn't give him the tv model number because it had faded off the label. Thought he might know off the top of his head what would work on it. I did not waste his time past two minutes, he had this mega attitude, and I expect too much of people some times.

Seems everyone left in TV is cranky. Probably bitter at the loss
of the good old days when you could make a decent living.
Your remote is probably an ultrasonic, look for a 124-*** number
in the battery box. There are also stickers inside the set with model ##.
If you find one locally they will LOVE to sell it !

73 Zeno:smoke:

I know of two local guys that claim to still make a humble living at it. Lately they've been mostly replacing cheap bulging electrolytic caps in LCD and LED sets. So pretty much the same process we go through with our old sets. :)

No shops here in Tucson that I'm aware of. When I was in college in California back in the 70's, I used to buy and sell (and repair) sets out of my apartment. After graduating, I continued to do that on a limited basis until about 1982. It was about that time that people started developing the "throw it away" attitude and my business dropped to almost nothing, so I gave it up. A friend of mine continued operating a TV shop in town for a few years after that, but he gave up in the late 80's.

I still run a TV shop, But its not just TVs, its ALL electronics both commercial and consumer, including car audio repair and installation + remote starts and security.

Only way I can survive these days. TVs I can still do component level repair in alot of cases, as long as the processor isnt fried or something liek that. (which is pretty common nowadays). but I did notice as the years go by, each new "model year" with TVs have more and more proprietary ICs that cant be found unless its a pull from the black market in china.

Even have the equipment to do processor swaps if I have to, the BGA rework equip isnt cheap, and the process is very intricate, not quite to CRT rebuilding intricacy but its up there. The modern plasma TVs I change the QFP buffer ICs all the time on the Samsung and LG units. They all fail.

We lost another one here.
 

I was stopping in here every few months to buy cables and the like. I admired all the old and new stuff on display but I figured it was just a matter of time. :sigh:
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I walked in on the last day open, today. I left with a carload of old record players, small tube testers, 3 B&K CRT testers, Tektronix 516 scope, B&K frequency counter, etc.
The owner is a great guy and we came to a price we could both agree on.
I gave him my card and asked if anything tube-related, especially old color tubes were found, but I did not see any, just some OEM Sony 510 something.
The old radios were gone by now and no TV stuff was seen prior to 1980. Lots of Sony, RCA and Zenith manuals. Lots of VCR-Audio-etc repair jobs never picked up.....and newer parts parts parts

This place was around since I was a kid, same location.....
I think they call CRT sets "direct view" looks like
they still work on em.....

Nanuet NY - Same town as the place I worked at, and
there were about 5 shops there back in the 80's.

http://www.brynmawrtv.com

http://www.yelp.com/biz/bryn-mawr-tv...spring-valley#

https://www.facebook.com/BrynMawrTV

Quite the marketers......

This guy is in the next town from me, I was in there once years
ago for a part of some kind, which he did not want to order for me,
so I never went back...... He is behind a regular store front.
Pretty little place...

http://totaltvrepair.com/

No idea where this guy actually is.....

http://qualityelectronicandappliance.com/

I guess tv repair is still around.....
I don't go to shops any more for parts, so if they
are around even just around the corner, I don't know
about it.....

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Thankfully there is ONE shop about fifteen minutes from my home. Very nice man owns the place. He does his own work, and is very friendly towards folk like us! He has given me lots of advise on how to do my own work.

This is NOT a "tv repair shop", BUT it IS a place where one can go and get many parts to work on them, which are not available at radio shack. He also has a lot of "vintage parts" still around too.

http://stclairelectronics.com/

I have been going there off and on for over 20 years now. If you go inside--it is a "throwback" to what a tv parts store must have looked like maybe in 1974 or so !! But he increasingly carrying parts for modern flat-panel sets.

He is the ONLY place around here anymore--to get this stuff, aside from MCM in springboro. There used to be a LOT of parts places in CINcy and dayton area...but NO MORE.

This place is about all we have left, but it is well stocked.

http://www.baynesvilleelectronics.com/index2.ivnu

This place is about all we have left, but it is well stocked.

http://www.baynesvilleelectronics.com/index2.ivnu
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Ah, yes, good old "Brainsville Electronics" or as we used to call them(LOL). They used to have some good deals in the 1980's on surplus and used stuff, but into the 1990's-2000's, their pricing was getting way up there. You're right, they were the go to place for parts in the Baltimore/Towson area for many, many years. They sure beat Radio Shack for selection.

Tom (PK)