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Stopped by an old repair shop in Tacoma and saw something I haven't seen in a decade
I was driving through the north end last week and noticed a small TV repair place still open. Walked in and the guy had a Zenith System 3 chassis up on his bench, tube exposed. He was adjusting the focus and screen controls with a plastic alignment tool, the kind that came in the box. Said he keeps a few old sets going for customers who refuse to switch. Made me think about how much of that hands-on calibration work just vanished when flat panels took over. Anyone still working on CRTs regularly, or is it just a hobby thing now?
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caleb1916mo ago
Man, that hits on something I see everywhere now. We traded all these fixable things for sealed boxes that just get tossed. My dad could tune up our old car with a basic toolkit, but now you need a computer just to reset the oil light. That repair shop feels like a time capsule of when stuff had knobs to turn and you could actually understand how it worked.
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brown.susan6mo ago
My grandpa's old radio had tubes you could pull out and test at the hardware store... they'd plug it into this big machine with a glowing green screen.
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tara3456mo ago
Honestly saw a thing about how some companies are making tractors that farmers can't even fix themselves anymore. Tbh it's the same story everywhere.
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