28 Apr
2012
28 Apr
'12
11:25 a.m.
[Real instruciton manuals from the 1960s]
Consumers, no, but if you brought it to an appliance
repair shop, they'd
I wonder how many owners would have taken the instruction book along wit
hte device to be repaired... I guess if the repair shop also sold the
units, they could jsut look at hte manual from a new one, but wouldn't it
have been easier just to proovide all such dealers with a service manual?
I dod rememebr buying a TV about 20 eyars ago from a well-known London
shop. I was handed a docuemnt entitled 'Customer Service Infomration'. It
unfolded into one large sheet. On one side was a schematic, on the other
were PCP layouts and alignment data. I am not sure if that should have
come with the TV , but I made no comment....
probably like to have schematics. They probably
wouldn't be shelling
out for a service manual for every consumer tuner model under the sun.
That's what the 'Radio and Television Servicing' books and Trader Sheets
wrre for, surely. Thirsd party service information (schemaitc + layout
(sometimes) + alignemt data for most radios and TVs,
Of course nowadays, we just throw it away when it
doesn't work.
You might. I grab a soldering iron and have a go at fixing it.
-tony