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@BradNakken2 жыл бұрын
That part where David pulled out the second and third TV, it almost felt like a Technology Connections "Through the magic of buying two of them" moment. Nice job on the repair.
@dfuserxyz2 жыл бұрын
Through the magic of buying three of them, we can figure out what's wrong.
@BlackStormMC2 жыл бұрын
"oh god, he has a third one"
@BobofWOGGLE2 жыл бұрын
"This TV was given as a gift to AST employees after the samsung buyout. Through the magic of knowing two of them, I now have 3 TVs" yeah that checks out.
@a.r.s.e.n.i.o.2 жыл бұрын
he didn't want a collection of those, and now he has 3
@Crazy-qi1gw2 жыл бұрын
Yoooooo, I love Technology Connections.
@Eddy00422 жыл бұрын
I bet in 30yrs time we don't see anyone saying "well that classic Samsung OLED 80 inch 8k TV was an easy repair"
@patterisepi2 жыл бұрын
Just swap out the capacitors and you are going again...
@someguy91752 жыл бұрын
Everything from this era is designed to be unreparable trash, ask any repairman lol, quite a miracle people still manage to fix these things with parts being hard to source and schematics being a holygrail.
@m0rc1us2 жыл бұрын
With OLED It's more complicated than capacitors 😀😀😀
@WELLINGTON202 жыл бұрын
50/50. In 30 years time I think they’d be a lot more intelligent than right now.
@aidanbrooks7712 жыл бұрын
Even cars now are the same, I’m in college to be a mechanic and like 90s and 00s cars are downright simple and easy to fix compared to the modern computer on wheels design that most manufacturers are using, for Tesla’s it is actually illegal to log the communication signals on the data lines and to work on one you need to drop about 15k and fly out to California to be certified every 5 years. Honestly I hate the modern corporate bologna where they make almost nothing end user repairable
@chriscutress17022 жыл бұрын
This is the reason that an actual person who can repair circuitry is worth their weight in beer and friendship. Especially when old equipment is involved. The number of times I've had equipment that only needed capacitor replacement or the re-soldering of components and traces will never cease to amaze me. Equipment that is now impossible to replace with new devices because the new versions either don't exist (economy of scale) or just aren't as well made as older versions representing the same technology (cassette machines, reel to reel machines, DVDR recorders, VHS & Beta machines, MiniDisk, DAT, turntables, etc.). Not to mention old computer devices running old software and applications necessary to interface with ancient hardware.
@fyreantz25552 жыл бұрын
Well said, though you forgot to add skittles or burritos to the whole beer/friendship ratio.
@SonicBoone562 жыл бұрын
Wish I knew people who appreciated that I attempt to fix old shit
@herrbonk36352 жыл бұрын
@@fyreantz2555 More often strong black coffee with cream cake on the side, in my country. (But beer, vine or likör is never wrong, especially with food.)
@avtips47792 жыл бұрын
Yeah, computers with old BIOSes get barely any virus/malware “Support” and most tech made before like 2005 are all plausible to repair with the same tool kit you used to replace your transmission and maybe a few rubber bands from the asparagus you ate 3 days ago.
@Adrianatoras2 жыл бұрын
"is worth their weight in beer and friendship" Probably the best quote I heard in a long time. It's a privilege then for someone to be your friend.
@tiporari2 жыл бұрын
Those are from the magical era of CRT's when they were cheap, plentiful, and peak design quality. No surprise they still work. Even with cheap parts and built down to a cost they had pretty much been perfected. Peak art
@RCAvhstape2 жыл бұрын
Just like steam locomotives and piston airplane engines after WWII: just as the technology gets mature it gets replaced.
@Capdukeymomoman2 жыл бұрын
you could probably use those damn things as a high powered weapon
@semuta27522 жыл бұрын
@@RCAvhstape He does cover many other things, but the above topics are the meat and potatoes of his channel. Cheers
@RCAvhstape2 жыл бұрын
@@semuta2752 So?
@ccricers2 жыл бұрын
I feel the same with Technics SL-1200’s. Those turntables are tanks and the mark 2 from the 70’s and 80’s, aside from a pot replacement or two are still reliable today.
@TheyreStillOutThere2 жыл бұрын
I theorize that those connectors are on an easily accessible breakout board like that because they’re a major wear and tear component, so warranty repairs would’ve been very fast and simple back in the day. Good engineering.
@Wheagg2 жыл бұрын
I thought it was because that area didn't have any other logicboards around, but that's also likely.
@nneeerrrd2 жыл бұрын
Indeed
@MrGoatflakes2 жыл бұрын
Also so the mainboard doesn't have to come right up to everywhere they want a port.
@TheyreStillOutThere2 жыл бұрын
@@MrGoatflakes good point.
@bobblum59732 жыл бұрын
That vintage of TV uses the case as the chassis, so flexibility with options makes it cost effective. Like the SCART connector he mentioned, used in specific models, a blank panel in others. I've seen TVs and VCRs that were monaural, but you could see the spot for the second connector in the stereo model.
@TheGeekPub2 жыл бұрын
If this TV ever dies, we're going to have to break out all of stops and give it a huge send off to the TV afterlife.
@Angelgreat2 жыл бұрын
Only if we send a console with it, so that way the TV can be used in heaven.
@wallypop862 жыл бұрын
You thinking viking funeral, or pyramid burial? What would you build the pyramid out of?
@TechTipsUSA2 жыл бұрын
And Klingon death ritual
@kevinnichols60002 жыл бұрын
@@wallypop86 80 of the remotes for that tv
@bryanjensen26142 жыл бұрын
if David Letterman was still on NBC he could drop it off the top of a building.
@hawaiianryan18902 жыл бұрын
A friend gave me a "dead" Apple Macintosh Plus. All it needed was to reflow the solder on just the right joint that connects the luminosity signal to the built-in screen. Apparently, this is also the most common cause of malfunction in those machines.
@leandrotami2 жыл бұрын
I wasn't that lucky, I bought 2 Apple Macintosh Classic II and both had their batteries explode inside making a mess of rust and stains
@MrGoatflakes2 жыл бұрын
@@leandrotami oof. Was the board damaged beyond repair?
@MrGoatflakes2 жыл бұрын
Good to know ;)
@MrGoatflakes2 жыл бұрын
@@leandrotami sad that the rtc and nvram battery has literally destroyed so many systems. Seems almost a feature not worth having in light of that. Also seems like a mercury or silver cell would have worked as well, and I've only seen a few of the leak. But maybe that's cause I've not seen so many of them?
@hawaiianryan18902 жыл бұрын
@@leandrotami imagine, though, what the Apple Store would say if you tried to get them fixed there. 😉
@dwaynezilla2 жыл бұрын
I like that you closed out with a "give it a shot." Honestly a lot of the times you open it up and it's pretty obvious what is broken, haha. Just a screwdriver and a soldering iron and you have a fixed device. And you can ride that high for a week at least!
@bghoody56652 жыл бұрын
Agreed. I recently had a CRT repair which was even easier than the one in this video - not even any soldering involved, just reconnecting some wires. I would never had known if I didn't bother to open up the TV.
@mottzilla48582 жыл бұрын
I have a TV that I wish was something like that. Someone was probably moving the TV and dropped it or sat it down hard and the PCB cracked where the flyback transformer sits. I've been thinking about trying to repair it as a challenge. I've been hanging onto it because I have an identical model TV and I figure worst case it's spare parts for the other working TV.
@modysocjalista366510 ай бұрын
@@mottzilla4858 How did it go?
@diegocrusius2 жыл бұрын
I have no problem with short episodes like this. I cant express how happy I am to see old hardware being recovered and used.
@konni66942 жыл бұрын
"Somebody probably tripped over a wire or something and yanked the connectors" MOOOOM!!! NOT AGAIN!!! - Every kid in the 80s
@rawr519192 жыл бұрын
Still happens sometimes even now
@ClassicGameSessions2 жыл бұрын
Great to see you that you salvaged these vintage tv's. No point in wasting good CRT's like this!
@KofolaDealer2 жыл бұрын
Especially since they can't be recycled. There's no point in throwing away a CRT
@ClassicGameSessions2 жыл бұрын
@@KofolaDealer Well said
@AiOinc12 жыл бұрын
"Good" CRTs maybe not but functional for sure. Either way if it works it's nice to keep around.
@ClassicGameSessions2 жыл бұрын
@@AiOinc1 Yes, functional is the key
@herrbonk36352 жыл бұрын
I agree. But if you call 1990s and early 2000s stuff "vintage", what do you call a TV from the 1950s or 60s? Antique?
@MrEightThreeOne2 жыл бұрын
Lucky you! Not even a yanked cable can deter this model from never breaking. And yeah, it was short but still fun to watch anyway and just goes to show how you never know just how easy or hard a repair will be. I swear we used to have a TV just like this in our kitchen, I'm nearly convinced it's the same model. Sadly we got rid of it a long time back, but oh well. Good as always!
@drg53522 жыл бұрын
I think I had one as well as a kid. It was one of the many things that got blew up by a lightning bolt in the early 2000's, leaving me only with a C64 and Commodore monitor. Both of which still work. I used that Commodore for a TV for years, until I was given a somewhat newer (but still old) lcd that I still have. That lightning bolt took out the AC, fridge, all my consoles except my PS2 and C64, and most of the TVs in the house.
@app0the2 жыл бұрын
I'm over 90% sure it was not a yanked cable, but just cracked solder from the shitty "eco" lead-free solder used since the late 90s in everything (how is that "eco" if it makes most people throw out the device in a decade!)
@Trekeyus2 жыл бұрын
@@app0the technically lead-free solder is not eco-friendly the reason it's lead free is because lettuce is toxic and some politician decided ban the use of lead in solder. The other big issue of silver solder is tin whiskers resulting in shorts
@FCV05112 жыл бұрын
It always warms my heart to see a CRT repaired. I've always been somewhat hesitant to crack one open due to the risk of latent-electricity-death, but I'd love to get into it someday.
@isaacsrandomvideos6672 жыл бұрын
I love how passive you wrote literal imminent death
@Christopher-N2 жыл бұрын
Anytime I hear the word 'latent', I imagine Alec of *Technology Connections* talking about heat energy.
@andreasklindt71442 жыл бұрын
CRT's are not nearly as dangerous as most of the electrical devices of the 1930's. Their's a channel, Mr Carlson's Lab, where very very old devices is brought back to life. You die already when you see the wiring of those things.
@Christopher-N2 жыл бұрын
@@andreasklindt7144: Some of this was mentioned in _The Secret Life of Machines,_ s1e6. It's a wonder more houses didn't burn down, with the electrical codes of that era.
@bruinflight12 жыл бұрын
This is a great example of recycling old tech with a minor repair! Great job Dave, thank you!
@simaesthesia2 жыл бұрын
Not only is it cool, it's a lesson in being friendly to the environment. We should go back to "make do and mend" a lot more. Well done on the repair :)
@danielt.85732 жыл бұрын
When it comes to the environment there will always be an idiot somewhere who will complain about CRT's energy consumption.
@sarahskileth69252 жыл бұрын
Sadly companies don't want us to repair devices because they make more money if you just buy a new device when yours breaks. I'd LOVE to go back to being able to easily repair devices
@bill_clinton6972 жыл бұрын
@@danielt.8573 With how little CRTs are still being used, its likely that having a few more in use isn't going to impact anything.
@Warp33269 ай бұрын
Most crt's use less electricity than many modern displays@@bill_clinton697
@matt.6042 жыл бұрын
I found a yamaha stereo receiver that was going in the trash because of the same problem. Simply resoldering the audio jacks on the main board fixed it up and I've been using it daily for years.
@Tediz4212 жыл бұрын
It might be a little repetitive to do but for the sake if safety it may be worth mentioning precautions you take when approaching some of these repairs. Stuff like discharging caps and working on non conductive surfaces is second nature to tech sort of people but a layman could be very seriously injured or even killed for not taking the same precautions. That part where you turned on the TV with the back end exposed made me wince a little. Some of those color tubes took in as much as 25k DCV, albeit at a low amperage. In a month or less this could be one of the top 5 videos to show up when searching for "Vintage TV repair".
@cardboardboxification2 жыл бұрын
let the dumb ones figure it out on their own
@TedWilder Жыл бұрын
Good catch. I'm a new hobbyist and this was my very first CRT repair video. I'll be sure to do more research before carrying forward
@zorktxandnand37742 жыл бұрын
Bad solder joints on single sided boards are a common cause of problems when equipment gets older. Can highly recommend to reflow all bigger and heavier components such as (line) transformers, big caps, and semiconductors on heat sinks, as well as connectors. parts which get hot can also create bad joints. Big diodes, power resistors etc. It can prevent a lot of issues. Good luck keeping them working.
@SegaDream1312 жыл бұрын
And flimsy boards are able to take no abuse at all on nearly all raised connections....better be extra gentle....
@thear1s2 жыл бұрын
All parts with mechanical stress, so everything on the front panel.
@arnolda.lampel60872 жыл бұрын
Nothing beats a Sony Trinitron CRT TV with S-Video and SCART RGB input when it comes to Retro Gaming...
@Blasterxp2 жыл бұрын
Nothing! Trinitron is the best!
@Breakfast_of_Champions2 жыл бұрын
The three 20-year old Samsungs look pretty solid too, but the tube isn't very flat, looks like it was the generation before everyone had *tron tubes.
@The8BitGuy2 жыл бұрын
Trinitrons were popular with computer monitors in 1997. I am not sure about televisions at that point. But this Samsung was considered a budget TV.
@arnolda.lampel60872 жыл бұрын
@@Breakfast_of_Champions I recently found a very late Sony Trinitron 23" from around 2005-2006. The tube is almost completely flat and the image quality is AMAZING. Even C64 BreadBin or Atari 2600 via RF signal looks awesome on that thing. S-Video signal is super crisp and looks even better than on a 1084S. Oh, BTW: Trinitrons are know for their weight, too...
@brunor.11272 жыл бұрын
The best CRT is the one you own
@iannicholson16752 жыл бұрын
I could watch videos like this all day long!! Please restore and fix up more old electronics!! I can never get bored of them!!
@bladactania2 жыл бұрын
I love how in all your videos, you show every step, no matter how "mundane" or repetitive it may seem, this is very helpful. Also, I enjoy all the fun facts you sprinkle into your videos. Would much appreciate a more liberal addition of them! Keep up the great work.
@ps5hasnogames552 жыл бұрын
liberals are cringe
@markingfeat2 жыл бұрын
My grandma has had one exactly like yours for the last 20 something years and is still being used, and my parents had one without the inputs in the front when i was little.
@brandonb16812 жыл бұрын
That opening music makes me smile every time. I have an old Sylvania 13 inch TV with a built in VCR. Twenty-two years old and still works great. When I want to go old school and watch VCR tapes, it is always there and ready.
@Martin49822 жыл бұрын
Still got my Samsung 51cm CRT Tv, which someone gave to me as "faulty". When I got home, I switched it on and only had a "black" screen with audio, so after fiddling around, I found the onscreen menu showed up, then I realized whoever owned the set, turned down the brightness and contrast to zero. I adjusted it, and it worked perfectly. I owned the TV from 2010, and today, 2021, it is still working and in daily use. It even outlasted 2 SmartTV's that both failed 2 years apart. In general, I still think old CRT tech is more reliable than today's flat screens, I see too many of them with backlight failure....
@borzowsky2 жыл бұрын
The truth is repairing stuff is fun. The satisfaction of taking something that people thought belonged in the trash and restore it to glory is immensely satisfieing.
@GoldSrc_2 жыл бұрын
I wouldn't call reflowing solder a "repair", it's so simple and obvious. It's like changing a lightbulb and saying that you "repaired" the light in your room. This is more like a fix. His other video where he had to replace a diode, that was more interesting.
@borzowsky2 жыл бұрын
@@GoldSrc_ repair is the act of making something broken, working again. In this case the repair is also the diagnosis and understand what is the problem,that is fun as well. But for me soldering is like black magic, so Dr Freeman i let you have the last word, you have more experience than me in experiments,even if not always super successful. Cough cough black Mesa cough.
@thear1s2 жыл бұрын
And the process of stockpiling it in your cellar, never to be seen again after that :)
@GoldSrc_2 жыл бұрын
@@borzowsky That's a fix, not a repair. A repair implies that parts got replaced. You don't call tightening a screw on a loose connection a "repair" but a "fix", and reflowing a bit of solder is more like tightening the screw again. Change a resistor? That's a repair. Add more solder? That's a fix. Yeah yeah, both can technically achieve the same result, but they don't mean the same thing.
@borzowsky2 жыл бұрын
@@GoldSrc_ the dictionary disagrees with you Mr Freeman.
@gamewizardks2 жыл бұрын
I know you were careful, but it would probably be a good idea to encourage discharging the caps before working on it or at least advise of the danger for newbies who might try this.
@Christopher-N2 жыл бұрын
If for no other reason, then to show people how easy it is. Apparently, some individuals insist on using the household ground, purely out of ignorance.
@byronduvall2 жыл бұрын
This would be a great disclaimer to add to the description.
@bas97522 жыл бұрын
Thanks! Was searching for this comment. Was realy surprised he didnt mention it in the video.
@danceswithdirt71972 жыл бұрын
4:05 - yes, great troubleshooting idea! I enjoyed that! I don't know much about these TVs but as soon as you mentioned I was like "of course they would've done something to ensure input from a single source". I love this stuff dude.
@aktronics2 жыл бұрын
He gave you his daughter and his TV... What a nice guy ☺
@cll1out2 жыл бұрын
I've resoldered about half a dozen TVs' inputs like this in my life. One of which was outright given to me for this problem, they were going to haul it off to the dump. It's a real shame how much stuff gets thrown away because of seemingly minor issues like this.
@alexfinns61622 жыл бұрын
Never have I been let down David. You, Mat from Techmoan and Clint from LGR! Wow. Thanks for all the effort you put into these videos!
@secretjazz932 жыл бұрын
repairing old stuff is BASED and will never go out of style. never stop rocking, 8-Bit Guy
@phs1252 жыл бұрын
When I was in college, our hostel didn't have any water heating facilities, so everyone just used one of those immersion coils you would use with a bucket of water. And every so often, they would stop working and throw them out. And I soon discovered that 90% of the thrown away coils just had their wires yanked off from the inside, all I had to do was to open it up and cut a small length of wire and reattach with a screwdriver. I never bought a single one of those coils in my 7 years of college, and I always had a handful of them in my room to lend...
@jk7432 жыл бұрын
Really liked this video. Showing that repairs don't always have to be complicated might motivate some people to try to fix their things themselves. Of course always gotta be really careful with old TV's like this.
@Stefan-2 жыл бұрын
It may be easy, well at least if you know a thing or two about electronics and soldering, most people dont and would never even open it up and i dont recommend that these people do that since they may get the shock of their life (an electric one). Im a service tech myself since over 30 years and i was actually educated in repair of CRT TV´s although i never worked in that area, i would of course do repairs like this and much more. I actually had a quite similar Samsung TV with connectors on the front although it was a 21" one and it had scart on the back.
@stitchfinger76782 жыл бұрын
@@Stefan- Agreed. Most people who wouldn't know how to fix this offhand or at least immediately upon opening, have no business mucking about inside an old CRT at all.
@martindejong39742 жыл бұрын
Yes you must be careful with CRT's as they can shock you with very high voltages, even when they are not plugged in, the CRT itself is a capacitor that can store lethal voltages for days. Perhaps he should have shown how to discharge the CRT, especially as he opened it just after it was turned on, it can be very painful to be shocked with 20.000 to 30.000 Volt from a charged CRT tube. Just take an end of solder wire wrap one side of it under the strap that holds the CRT in place, and wrap the other end around the metal of a flat screwdriver, (one that has a plastic handle) and stick the flat part of the screwdriver under the rubber cap that sits to the side of the CRT. If you hear or see sparks fly then you did just discharge the CRT, and its now safe to stick your hand in there.
@Roblilley9992 жыл бұрын
They are a great TV, one I used to have as a teenager in the 90s. As I was in the UK mine had a start socket
@JohnSmith-xq1pz2 жыл бұрын
Cries in low end 27" thrift store find. the only CRT tv I could find for my retro gaming setup If only somebody hadn't gotten rid of the commomador monitor we had for the SNES...
@jushiromegafan662 жыл бұрын
I feel that. Only cry I could find was a 27 with green tint splotches throughout the screen. Still works fine tho...
@JohnSmith-xq1pz2 жыл бұрын
@@jushiromegafan66 oof! That must be a pretty sight lol
@kenchorney27242 жыл бұрын
I fixed a bin rescue tv for a friend once. It had a cold solder joint on a connector in the degaussing circuit. The only "soldering" iron he had available was so old and crusy it looked like it had been used for woodburning. He was quite impressed!
@owenmorgan8572 жыл бұрын
Cool Repair, I would have got myself some epoxy and stuck that other connector to the board after reflowing the solder making is stronger than factory so it does not stress the remaining trace, but hey we are all armchair experts :-)
@Angelgreat2 жыл бұрын
Please RGB mod them!
@christiancoding2 жыл бұрын
Why ? Just why?🤣
@unknownwolf40462 жыл бұрын
@@christiancoding I miss old CRT tv sets there better than modern tv sets
@srfrg97072 жыл бұрын
@@christiancoding If you were European you would know.
@janhumpolicek83732 жыл бұрын
@@christiancoding He did it with his first one a while back. Why should he not? It is veey handy to be able to use rgb video signal and composite as well. If you thought it was RGB lighting, no it is not, it is adding a rgb video input.
@emanperson2 жыл бұрын
"20 hours ago" posted 11 minutes ago....
@mutosanrc19332 жыл бұрын
even i have not much connection anymore to the old stuff, I really like to watch you videos. Brings me back to child hood every time. Especially with the t-shirt
@jimcurt992 жыл бұрын
About 99% of us out here don't have the the experience or intelligence you have to make this "easy" repair- I'm glad you do- learn something new EVERY time
@Markimark1512 жыл бұрын
I found an old eMac that screen won’t turn on due to the capacitor, I’m glad you know how to fix CRTs. Especially with old school games work better on CRTs!
@Dukefazon2 жыл бұрын
Happy to see you are posting videos a little more regularly! 2:11 - I can imagine having a wall of TVs on set as decoration but they are also hooked up to the same source if you ever need to use it, kinda like in the arrangement in old cyberpunk movies like Johnny Mnemonic :D Even if it's a simple fix like this, it's still so satisfying to see get it done :)
@TheTechAdmin Жыл бұрын
0:14 Back in the late 90's and early 2000's, everyone and their mother had one of these 13" Black Samsung TVs in their kitchen. I had one in my bedroom for my NINTENDO. I remember wanting to play while I fell asleep, so I tilted the TV on its side to match my head laying on the pillow, and the display turned a hue of green!!! I was so angry that one, I didn't know why it was happening, and two, I couldn't fix it.
@matthewray60082 жыл бұрын
I love this format. Just a quick little demo about something in your shop and something you are working on. More of this please :)
@user-mc8zf1sp9i2 жыл бұрын
A very reliable TV model. I once had one (version for Europe, with a SCART connector), used as a monitor for the ZX Spectrum and watching TV. It was bought in Russia and worked without repairs for about 15 years, until the kinescope lost emission.
@jameslewis26352 жыл бұрын
Nice getting those old TV's going. I would say that fitting an RGB mod to these (possibly replacing the rear connections) would be well worth the effort allowing you to get a much better picture than you would do on composite.
@tubbunny2 жыл бұрын
mod already exists on his tv. not the other ones.
@Oddman19802 жыл бұрын
Back in the dim preindustrial days of 2005, my brother was giving me a ride home. We were in a little mid-1990's S10 with a regular cab. I was carrying one of these Samsung TV's home in the bed. My brother neglected to look to the *left* when pulling out onto the highway from a stop sign, and we were hit by a fullsize dodge truck of a similar vintage. It spun our truck around, knocked the back window out, but we were OK. The little TV flew out of the bed and landed face-down 50 feet away. I went to pick the TV up, expecting to see CRT McNuggets when I picked it up. Other than a scratch on the face of the TV tube, it was perfectly fine and still functioned.
@dwaynezilla2 жыл бұрын
Nice catch with that front port overriding the back port!
@doctirdaddy48762 жыл бұрын
this is literally the only channel i watch every single new episode on. david is a delightful person
@lharwest15712 жыл бұрын
I used to have this style of Samsung TV with literally the same buttons, but a bigger screen. Once it stopped working and my father made a weird custom mod to it since it was not working and that prolonged it's live by 10 years, but after it failed again we decided to get rid of it. I am kinda sad that we got rid of it since it is possible it could have been fixed..
@vap17772 жыл бұрын
8 bit guy upload makes my whole day! I watch these while I code every day.
@4KbShort2 жыл бұрын
Found a 48" flat screen in the dumpster in my apartment complex. Screen was fine, but backlight was toast. Used the flashblight test, looked up how to fix it. Soldered the two boards in it back together (common problem) and now have a 48" TV for free! Amazing stuff.
@CoolDudeClem2 жыл бұрын
Wait, something from 1997 can be considered as "vintage" now? Wow I feel so old!
@vineheart012 жыл бұрын
in college we had like 2 dozen of these TV's that were broken but kept that way for troubleshooting reasons. I can remember poking around 3 of them that i simply could not figure out and apparently those 3 were beyond even the teacher's skills so it was marked unknown/unrepairable. The others almost always boiled down to something incredibly stupid and easy to fix, such as this TV's broken solder joints.
@johndododoe14112 жыл бұрын
Your college had repair classes? Ours mostly focused on the design phase, such as "build a CPU with this instruction set", "Design a CRC calculation chip" or "build this barbeque design with your own hands"
@vineheart012 жыл бұрын
@@johndododoe1411 Sort of. The class wasnt technically a repair class but it was rather a "discrete components" type class. The instructor just had tons of these TVs and used them as teaching tools
@vineheart012 жыл бұрын
@@johndododoe1411 Its also worth noting that my degree is in a general electronics field, just a 2yr thing to basically say i know basic electronics and programming but im not specialized at all. Which is funny because now i work on testing multi-site radio software...something i dont know why they wanted that education for because i almost NEVER solder at work and i definitely dont do any programming.
@dwaynezilla2 жыл бұрын
Love the little shot of the board going in at 6:00. So quick but makes all the difference.
@PatriciaCross2 жыл бұрын
That was genius level troubleshooting. Not many people would figure out the front jack was the problem.
@Th3Pr0digalS0n2 жыл бұрын
This is the exact same tv we had in our living room for about 15 years. Our 1980s 20 inch console tv broke in about 1995, and my dad replaced it with this little guy. He bought it at a rite aid because it was a sale special one November. My father was cheap.
@turrican4d5992 жыл бұрын
A mini TV as a living room TV?
@stitchfinger76782 жыл бұрын
I know all tvs had to be smaller back then but having to SHARE something this small...that's real rough. And Im old enough to at least remember the last NEW CRT we had.
@truthdoesnotexist2 жыл бұрын
I still have a working console TV
@Pasi1232 жыл бұрын
My parents bought a new cheap 21" CRT TV back in 2005 because it was on sale and it was stereo unlike our old one. It was our main TV until 2010 when it was replaced with an older 29" Sony Trinitron
@turrican4d5992 жыл бұрын
@@Pasi123 Do you all watch TV with binoculars?
@GORF_EMPIRE2 жыл бұрын
Samsung has always been great quality in my experience. Not surprised that they still work and look great.
@henrykhenrykowski27452 жыл бұрын
When it comes to TVs - yes. When it comes to their other products - well, not exactly. (I'm talking here about their products from that era, not the modern ones).
@GORF_EMPIRE2 жыл бұрын
@@henrykhenrykowski2745 I've never had any bad experience with any samsung from today and yesterday.
@henrykhenrykowski27452 жыл бұрын
@@GORF_EMPIRE Well, I've both. TVs, monitors & VCRs worked pretty good through the years, but HDDs, optical drives & portables were not done properly & very often they went from 'solid' to 'trash' in months of normal use (the longest kept up to almost 2 years, the shortest... just 2 days :D for real.).
@GORF_EMPIRE2 жыл бұрын
@@henrykhenrykowski2745 I've never had a bad Samsung drive. I had one bad WD out a few... I've been pretty lucky with HD's
@mockier2 жыл бұрын
Nice little reminder that sometimes repairs can be quick and easy to do. So best to get on and try to fix stuff, or at least check the basics.
@SuhinaSeppo2 жыл бұрын
such an easy fix. My way of thinking has developed to this because of you. I've managed to fix my own electronics from the things i've learned from you, and i am very grateful.
@bleiglanz2 жыл бұрын
These CRT monitors will live long after all their flat fancy new ones are gone. I have one that was built in 1992. When it breaks, I'll buy a new one. Maybe 30 years from now...
@KofolaDealer2 жыл бұрын
CRTs are great I got one for free and it was wasn't turned on in at least 20 years, the only thing that it needed was a new fuse and it worked like new. Made in my country too
@jonathaningram81572 жыл бұрын
Well I prefer my hdr 4k oled TV dying early over any CRT that make my eyes hurt.
@Framed_Niner2 жыл бұрын
@@jonathaningram8157 Yeah. CRT TVs are reliable but they look horrible by todays standards.
@stitchfinger76782 жыл бұрын
I prefer having literal orders of magnitude more detail. Also I've literally only had one flatpanel monitor fail in 15 years of computing, and that was cuz I punched it accidentally while playing Pistol Whip
@turbinegraphics162 жыл бұрын
I hope so, I have some crt's that are showing signs of wear such as buzzing and a bit of a dim picture.
@LegoWormNoah1012 жыл бұрын
I got a video idea David: Digital mod. Try adding Digital tuners to various analog TVs of various screen sizes, from a 5" B&W portable, to a massive 40" Goliath
@johndododoe14112 жыл бұрын
They do (or did) sell settop boxes to do that.
@LegoWormNoah1012 жыл бұрын
@@johndododoe1411 that's not as fun or a challenge!
@johndododoe14112 жыл бұрын
@@LegoWormNoah101 Those settop boxes could donate the circuits for an easier mod. A harder challenge is to run the protocol decoder on a vintage computer while using the vintage screen output system. So the CPU needs to be fast enough to decompress the real time MPEG4 data, decompress the AAC audio, do the high speed ECC decoding, plus the splitting of the bit stream into channels. Maybe a coprocessor of some kind is needed to offload some of all this work, but it'll still take vintage skills to make it work.
@LegoWormNoah1012 жыл бұрын
@@johndododoe1411 both methods can be done, and would make for either two interesting videos, or one interesting long video
@DygDyg10002 жыл бұрын
In Russia, we have created a neural network that can recognize video and make a localized audio track. It works fantastically. Now I can watch 8-bit without KZbin subtitles! How glad I am that I can enjoy your videos!!!
@martinthompson25842 жыл бұрын
My dad was a broadcast technician and started his career in TV repair. He pretty much knew which parts failed in particular models, which was typically only one simple component. Our house ended up full of repaired CRTs in every room as he'd pick up TVs off the road side that people had put there for hard rubbish collection and then repair them using a few cents in components. He'd repair everything. Even our first PC was put together from parts others had thrown away.
@dreammfyre2 жыл бұрын
Can’t you mod one of these to have scart? It’s usually the easiest way to get RGB out of old consoles.
@herrbonk36352 жыл бұрын
Hmm? Old video games have scart contacts? Is that what you mean? However, there are simple converters between scart contacts and those coaxial RCA-plugs. You see them on flee markets everywhere here in scandinavia, and you can probably by them new as well.
@johndododoe14112 жыл бұрын
It's clear the PCB has no SCART provisions, so that must be on the foreign model PCB that uses the same plastic box.
@ballyastrocade56722 жыл бұрын
SCART was never really used here in the USA, so it would probably be far more effort than it's worth to modify a US-market TV set to have a SCART port (just finding the connector would be a challenge; he'd probably have to find a European parts shop to mail-order it from), and there's almost nothing over here that would have a matching SCART output port to connect to it anyway.
@K-o-R2 жыл бұрын
Three identical RGB-modded TVs? Sounds like a great plan!
@LohTec2 жыл бұрын
PETSCII LAN party?
@Funlu2 жыл бұрын
I had one of these as a kid, this takes me back! Played everything from ps1 to Xbox 360 and wii on it.
@MAGNETICDOGZ2 жыл бұрын
Nice repair 👏 I used to have what I think is that exact Samsung TV model in my room when I was a kid. I don't know what ended up happening to it after I got a new TV from my parents, but I miss it. Seeing the model in this video and that menu for changing the TV's settings took me back.
@drowningin2 жыл бұрын
It's definitely good to own a CRT. Even if you don't always keep it plugged in. I was upset they made all the signals digital. I live in Houston, and I had 2 hand held TV/Radio combo. It was great to have TV during hurricane power outages to get information. When it froze last year & had no power for a week, no cell service I tested my hand tv's & nope no tv channels anymore. Such a horrible idea to make them all digital
@stitchfinger76782 жыл бұрын
There's lots of very real and very complicated reasosn the digital switch was made. But as I understand, some local low-power stations still operate analog TV (usually for suuuuuuper remote areas with literally no useful TV infrastructure)
@emmatitova21542 жыл бұрын
In my area we got digital to a station, then analog sent to all the homes. Works okay-ish. Quality is shit and they need to increase funding to keep it this way. Doubt they will get approved funding for that. Think it will be shut down entirely and use fiber for tv
@Roxor1282 жыл бұрын
Making them digital isn't the problem, it's not making replacement devices to fill the same niche.
@drowningin2 жыл бұрын
@@Roxor128 it is a problem. How would the signal work without power?
@Roxor1282 жыл бұрын
@@drowningin If the issue is no power, why bring up making the signals digital?
@GabMacedoo2 жыл бұрын
This is very nice, but please be careful when handling with CRTs. The voltage and current levels of the tube are very high, so it is very dangerous to work near the actual cathode tube. Just be mindful of that.
@stitchfinger76782 жыл бұрын
He's been doing this for years, he knows. That's a useful message for everyone watching tho
@martindejong39742 жыл бұрын
@@stitchfinger7678 Yeah, but perhaps he should have shown how to discharge the CRT, especially as he opened it just after it was turned on, it can take days for the CRT to fully discharge, and it can be very painful to be shocked with 10.000 Volt from a charged CRT tube. Just take an end of solder wire wrap one side of it under the strap that holds the CRT in place, and wrap the other end around the metal of a flat screwdriver, (one that has a plastic handle) and stick the flat part of the screwdriver under the rubber cap that sits to the side of the CRT. If you hear sparks fly then you did just discharge the CRT, and its now safe to stick your hand in there.
@DemonApple19822 жыл бұрын
That's how I got a 52 inch HDTV that was left by the dumpster. All it needed were the capacitors to be replaced which was only $5 total!
@marklane53722 жыл бұрын
Totally agree about binning serviceable equipment, I had a Samsung 40” LCD that kept going into ‘shop’ mode I chucked it in the shed for a year and bought a new set. The new set developed panel issues within less than a year and a half, funny how it started just out of warranty. Anyway, frustrated I searched the net and found some tips on the exact problem I had with my old lcd. I dragged it out of the shed and basically had to cut the wires to the front touch controls and low and behold it worked again. Granted only by RC but still I had my old tv back, I am still using that tv now and the pictures quality is spot on, so I am 100% for resurrecting old tech where possible :)
@fkthewhat2 жыл бұрын
I think I’d just be too scared to open a CRT! But the picture does look great on them! If it were a scart port would that mean it was rgb? Or was scart composite also?
@hexagonist232 жыл бұрын
Ofcourse big tech scared you into never even thinking about fixing your electronics because they want you to buy a new one, not fix it
@SamplersAndThings2 жыл бұрын
@@hexagonist23 the tube can explode if you take it apart wrong
@DaedalusYoung2 жыл бұрын
Yeah, the high voltage in them freaks me out. Same with microwaves, some things I won't be messing with.
@fkthewhat2 жыл бұрын
@@hexagonist23 not quite! I work on electronics for repair and diy projects. I pick my battles, and CRTs aren’t one of them due to the potentially lethal shock they can give you. You have to be very confident in what you’re doing when working on them or else it may cost you your life!
@ballyastrocade56722 жыл бұрын
@@hexagonist23 Yeah, no. "Big Tech" didn't scare me into being wary of working on CRT monitors; seeing the lovely plasma arcs that result when 20,000 volts escapes confinement due to a crack in the insulation and arcs towards the nearest path to ground is what made me wary of working on CRT monitors. :-P
@tarstarkusz2 жыл бұрын
Someone who doesn't know what they are doing should NOT just open a TV and start guessing, especially plugged in and running. The danger of high voltage is often overstated, but it's not like there is NO risk. This TV in particular probably has 20 thousand plus volts for high voltage. Depending on the TV, B plus voltage could be pretty high (though well under a kilo volt.. IMHO, when you deal with TVs or other corded appliances in unknown condition, ALWAYS ALWAYS plug them into an inverter hooked to a FUSED DC power supply or hell, plugged into your cigarette adapter in your car. You fuse or circuit breaker panel should be tested by a qualified electrician, NOT a shorted corded appliance. The WORST case scenario is serious bodily injury or death and or severe property damage. Don't tempt fate.
@tarstarkusz2 жыл бұрын
@@pedrocx486 I never said anything about "David" (we're not on first name basis with him) or his abilities. He was encouraging people to open TVs because it might be a simple fix. Now putting aside I never said what you claimed I said, what in my comment do you have a problem with.? What is wrong?
@tarstarkusz2 жыл бұрын
@Les You can't point to what is in other videos. If someone searches vintage tv repair and gets this video, you cannot reasonably expect him to know what is in every other video by him. Besides, the average person is just as likely, probably more likely to create new problems without even fixing the old problem.
@DashPadGames2 жыл бұрын
Ohh man I loved these TVs!! This one in particular was my childhood TV! I played so much Nintendo 64 and Dreamcast on that TV.
@ronsku572 жыл бұрын
18 hours and 140k views already! Love the videos always so fun to a watch when bored. Keep it up!
@DaedalusYoung2 жыл бұрын
I think you need to add a disclaimer to say that CRTs can hold very high voltages, even if not plugged in. Don't open them up yourself, unless you know what the dangers are.
@DaedalusYoung2 жыл бұрын
@Les Still, all it takes is for one guy to disregard the warnings and get himself hurt. Then sue David for telling them they should fix their own CRTs, without telling them it could be dangerous. When I wrote the comment, I did not see any others saying the same thing, so it didn't seem like it was such common knowledge.
@martindejong39742 жыл бұрын
Yeah, perhaps David should have shown how to discharge the CRT, especially as he opened it just after it was turned on, it can take days for the CRT to fully discharge, and it can be very painful to be shocked with 20.000 Volt from a charged CRT tube. Just take an end of solder wire wrap one side of it under the strap that holds the CRT in place, and wrap the other end around the metal of a flat screwdriver, (one that has a plastic handle) and stick the flat part of the screwdriver under the rubber cap that sits to the side of the CRT. If you hear sparks fly then you did just discharge the CRT, and its now safe to stick your hand in there.
@quadruple_negative2 жыл бұрын
I'm pretty sure that my high school had a bunch of bigger versions of these except they all had blown out speakers from playing educational videos at full blast.
@UltimateTechHub2 жыл бұрын
Nice Repair! I love these types of videos!
@CallousCoder2 жыл бұрын
I recently got an East German Chess Computer of which were only a 1000 were made. (Video on my channel). It said it was in working order, well sorta it turned on but didn’t reset. One of the buttons didn’t work. I spend one evening fixing two buttons and replaced a D103 with a 7403 and its working again. It’s always worth a try to fix something. And often you don’t need to be a true electronics wizard.
@Frog-ko6uu2 жыл бұрын
I have an old Sony Discman CD player that my family thought was done for, it would play a disc but sped up and slowed down randomly. I opened it up and found four unlabeled potentiometers on the main board, and just started fiddling with them. The second one I tried fixed the issue, and it still works fine four years later. Always worth giving repair a shot.
@pauliebb2 жыл бұрын
Nothing better than a new 8 bit guy video to watch on the train to work!!
@justin819812 жыл бұрын
They are multiplying, lol! Gremlins!! Another great piece of electronics saved from the dump. Right to Repair!! Great content as always. Thank you.
@FatLingon2 жыл бұрын
Just wanted to say that I apprechiate your videos. You are one of the few youtubers I have stuck with for over a decade.
@Watcher32234 ай бұрын
Good deductive logic in troubleshooting that TV having composite inputs that didn't work.
@CaptainDangeax2 жыл бұрын
A good and simple repair, well done Dave. Same repair I did on my mother's SABA radio tuner and amplifier from 1974, and still works like a charm. Hope one day you'll put your hands on a European TV set with a scart and enjoy the pleasure of easy RGB connection.
@tburda8232 жыл бұрын
There was a LOT of super mario, sonic the hedgehog, need for speed and twisted metal played over the years on my little 13" tv through my childhood. This video gave me some real way back nostalgia.
@marcberm2 жыл бұрын
Still have this TV from 1999, and there are still faint remnants of the screenprinted symbol on the power button. 🤣
@mikefr242 жыл бұрын
nice work. Like you I try to fix everything before tossing it in the scrap. I have repaired numerous CRT's and stereos for friends and family. Fixed my first C64 just a few weeks back too. Lots of fun.
@toecutterjenkins2 жыл бұрын
Had a check engine light on in my car, turned out it was an electric pollution pump, pretty expensive. I took it apart and found a wire had come off the electric motor. Fixed it and that pump lasted the life of the car . Saved me 600 dollars just for the part .
@xx_nixiecore_xx1442 Жыл бұрын
i kinda have grown up on this channel, and it has taught me to not be afraid of recycling old tech :) thank u
@RestorationRelaxation2 жыл бұрын
It’s a good day when you upload a video. Thanks for inspiring my own restoration channel and for your awesome content.
@f.herumusu83412 жыл бұрын
That's a great example of story telling ;) In other videos this would be just half a scentence "... which had a broken connector when I got it". You made a decent entertaining 8 minute video out of that.
@thewaywelive27752 жыл бұрын
More often than not I give that intro of yours a second spin. Best on youtube.
@marcberm2 жыл бұрын
One of these sets was the first TV I had in my bedroom growing up in the late 90's. Bought at the department store I worked at with my own earnings. As luck would have it, the out-of-stock off-brand sale TV I was going to buy was being substituted with something even lesser, but I was told that if I asked for the A/V jacks in the front, they'd honor the sale price on the better Samsung TV (because the original sale TV had front A/V inputs).
@jimbos-sen10772 жыл бұрын
I love this kind of stuff, so much that I don’t stop trying when I really should stop.
@audiogarden212 жыл бұрын
I had that same TV as a teenager. I think it was also the TV I had when I got my N64. Talk about the good ole days.
@GodSponge2 жыл бұрын
I found out many years after I had thrown away my original NES that the problem it was having was easily fixable. I wish I knew then what I know now. I never throw away without seeing if I can fix it first now. This channel is one of the reasons I know how to fix a lot of things. Thanks for all the great content!
@josericardogs14352 жыл бұрын
That era of CRT tv's from 1995 to 2002, those tv's they are indestructible! They are built cheap but with good quality parts. Still have my 1999 20' Philco working great till this day, and I'm not gonna get rid of it anytime soon, or never!
@ataribowlingcgc44652 жыл бұрын
It is so nice when the fix is simple and obvious like that!