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DVD/CD platter widget
Bit of plastic ring with 3 internal springs and wedges that grips the disc but comes off the metal spindle with the CD. Other than dot of superglue and capilliary flow into the join , any recognised...
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RCA Model# 27F650T chassis# ITC008KCY turns on and off
Howdy all, I have a RCA Model# 27F650T chassis# ITC008KCY that power cycles. It will power up and display the active input. Then the screen flashes and she powers off. It will cycle back on by itself,...
 
replacing the LCD screen on a PSP
Here is a picture of a Sony PSP with lines across the screen. Is a screen replacement likely to fix it? Does more than one factory in the world build these LCDs? I've seen them advertised on eBay as...
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Rega RB300 turntable...
Hi all Anyone happen to know the value of the resistor in the CR network connected in the synchronous motor feed ? Looks like brown - red - brown so 120 ohms, but it's well overheated and discoloured,...
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TA1222BN DataSheet Needed for Toshiba CN36Z71 Repair
I looked all over and can't find this datasheet. The AV board is supplying signal and sync, but the sync coming out is "independent". So, video is out of sync. The text menus are sync'd just fine. I...
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Horizontal Tearing on Sony Beta VCR
This seems like a pretty straightforward problem, and maybe it is, but it's one I haven't encountered before. Near the middle of the picture, there's a narrow horizontal area that tears to one side....
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Kenwood Prospero board defective
Hi, I have a Prospero food processor that most probably has a design failure. When I turn the knob on, the motor has a jerk then stops. No defective component visually. I suspect this comes from a...
 
Laptop battery got super hot when charging
I had left my laptop (dell 600m) on standby for a few days running off battery, so it was around 40% based on the little indicator they have on the battery. I plugged in the AC to charge it and went...
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JVC VHS-DVD Combo VHS side snow only
Question: Last summer my above combo deck the VHS side stopped showing image from tapes. Audio however remains crystal clear and hi- fi stereo, balanced at all times no dropout except for a...
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HP 30s screen & brain have been water-damaged, but I enjoyed this calculator
Hi, I have some old HP 30s, and as every HP stuff, I like it. The problem is that some strange guy threw water on it when I was at secondary school. It does not perform correct computations anymore,...
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CRT Monitor loses Green
My CRT monitor loses the green from time to time. Then the screen is all pink in the background and I can only see red and blue. Just about the time I'm going to toss it, the green comes back and it...
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Tale of a monitor
Hi Paul End of saga: the fault was High Voltage leakage from the top Backlight to chassis. It finally dawned on me, that the reason why, with the Inverter PCB only running and remote from chassis,the...
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mssing a syllable here and there, OTA TV
Is it possible that, when watching live digital over the air tv that occasionally a syllable will be missing from the words people speak? I think this has happened but I don't watch live so much...
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Clever Switches ...
I'm back ! Just got home from my latest Vegas trip. There is a whole new generation of machines there now, many of which are updated versions of the 'traditional' Double Diamond style machines, using...
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Seagate 160GB IDE drive suddenly invisible.
I use my generic, home made, pc to test and analyze client's hard drives. The motherboard in my pc is an ECS NFORCE3. It's never given me any problems. When I hooked up the test drive in question...
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