14 Oct
2012
14 Oct
'12
5:53 p.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave McGuire" <mcguire at neurotica.com>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
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Sent: Sunday, October 14, 2012 5:32 PM
Subject: Re: Dead LCD monitor? - replace $2 worth of caps - Re: Skipware
level, late 2012
On 10/14/2012 03:24 PM, Toby Thain wrote:
I will never understand the obsession with "new".
If it's old, it's bad, and if it's not new, it's old.
Well-trained sheeple, to the utter delight of sales-slime everywhere.
-Dave
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There are plenty of old LCD screens not worth fixing because they sucked
when new (bad contrast and colors, slow refresh for gaming, lower
resolution). You can get decent new monitors for $100, so I can see your
work not wanting you to waste time sourcing parts and trying to fix the old
ones (they are paying you to do something more important and profitable I
assume).
I would have just taken the broken monitors home and used them for something
after I fixed them (I have a 17" LCD that needed a couple new caps and a
couple $1 parts to fix a few years ago). LCDs make great workbench monitors
since they take up little space.
Words fail to describe the wrongness of this wastage.
Absent the caps,
these things certainly have a 10+ year lifespan...
My current workplace still uses four of the fixups.
MY workplace objects to repairs. They make a lot of bogus excuses, but
the real rweason is, "If you fix it, then we don't get a NEW one!"