Re: Electronics equipment servicing and the environment.

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From: Rudolf Ladyzhenskii
Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2002 23:18

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> You have choices. You can choose not to use the overpriced parts if
> you decide to - in most cases at least.

And how exactly this works, when I need, say new video head or capstan
motor, FBT or special IC, etc...?

> Just takes more thinking. You
> can repair items with used parts, or differen brand ones. You can
> choose to mod the items to get them going again, etc.

I am not getting paid for thinking -- I am getting paid for repairing of the
stuff. If I spend more time on repair, someone will have to pay for this
extra time. It either come out of my pocket or customers.

Do you want your TV fixed in this fashion? I never install second hand
parts, unless it is not possible to get a new one. Why? Because, when it
breaks again, it is my reputation that suffers and I have to do free work to
fix it again under warranty.

Beside, each part is in for a reason. And designers do try to use common
parts to minimise the cost (beleive me I am a design engineer as well as
runningmy repair business). If an expensive parts is in, most likely none
other parts could suffice or designing circuit with different part will be
of a more cost.



>
> Any repair has to be safe, working, legal, and reliable. And either
> tidy or not visible outside the box. Beyond that... its upto you. Its
> perfectly possible to be a repair business that does this sort of
> thing as standard. You can be very envirnonmentally reposnsible in
> tronics, it just takes more bwain use than thoughtless part plugins.

Do you run repair business? Does not sound like you have much idea.

Rudolf

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