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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caleb1917d 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.

brown.susan7d 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.