Why I try not to do my own hardware repairs

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Dan Worley
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Re: Why I try not to do my own hardware repairs

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Shooshie wrote:
twistedtom wrote:I added a 2nd drive (Blu-Ray), a SSD drive and 3 HD's, RAM, a 2nd video card, plus some other cards to my computer. I have been a long time electronics hobbyist and went to collage for electronics engineering. I also took a number of repair classes, some of them in computers. I have a repair bench with an oscilloscope and test equipment where I fix different electronic gear and computers, mine and other peoples. I have designed and constructed gear for my studio, built a vacuum tube preamp, done modifications on amps and repairs, I have made a number of my own cables, just to name a few things. So working on my gear is fun to me, as sick as that may sound to some people.
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Wow! Maybe I'll start bringing my stuff over to YOUR house!

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That's exactly what I was thinking. I wished some of you guys lived near me.
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Re: Why I try not to do my own hardware repairs

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twistedtom wrote:I added a 2nd drive (Blu-Ray), a SSD drive and 3 HD's, RAM, a 2nd video card, plus some other cards to my computer. I have been a long time electronics hobbyist and went to collage for electronics engineering. I also took a number of repair classes, some of them in computers. I have a repair bench with an oscilloscope and test equipment where I fix different electronic gear and computers, mine and other peoples. I have designed and constructed gear for my studio, built a vacuum tube preamp, done modifications on amps and repairs, I have made a number of my own cables, just to name a few things. So working on my gear is fun to me, as sick as that may sound to some people.
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Similar experience here. I worked in a TV repair shop on weekends in high school, and learned the "trade". I've built a compressor, equalizer, amp, pedals, speakers, etc, and did all my own repairs on equipment and computers in the past. But over the years, design has changed making things less repairable, in theory to reduce the cost of manufacturing, but you have to wonder.
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Re: Why I try not to do my own hardware repairs

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I'm surrounded by overachievers. How annoying. :vomit:
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Re: Why I try not to do my own hardware repairs

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I do a lot of my own. Am balking at the idea of replacing the hard drive on my iMac with an SSD. I'm not afraid of the suction cups etc. but I just can't find a procedure that makes me feel comfortable trying it one-handed.

Towers, printers, hard drives on Time Capsules etc. - piece of cake. Soldering is an adventure but doable.
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