eesakiwis adventures

Wow, I stayed up all of last night, got a hours sleep this morning.
I spent all last night on the internet (here & such) and scrapping down the very last hard drive I have.

So I now have a full sack of Ali hard drive chassis, dunno what it weighs, too heavy to pick up almost, drag it out the door..
Sorted out the fancy escrap jewellery anodised heatsinks and separated 'Cast Ali' from 'domestic Ali'.
Piled up my light gauge steel outside.
Had a 1 hr sleep.
Packed all my lightgauge sheet steel into my car & took it to the scrappers, unfortunitly the price dropped yesterday from $65 to $40, ouch.
. So I got just over $20 for near 1/2 ton... Brexit anyone? Golds gone up heaps though, $100 from normal average lately.
Wish I had near 1/2 ton of Gold.....

Found out my clothes driers not working, the other two I have, ones got a cut cord, the others got a 'no heat' note taped to it.
Its winter here, its not going to dry 100% on the clothes line (our NZ method of drying clothes, solar powered)
So after a shower where I had nothing to change into afterwards, I used the laundromat to mostly dry what was washed.
Like 95% dry, it cost me $3 for the 'silicon chipped' key, $9 for 3 x 20 minutes of drying.
That's $12 off my $22 scrap metal $$ already.
I'm not paying another $3 to dry the last 5% of the moisture out....

Put on almost dry but clean tee shirt & went home to wash the rest of my dirty clothes. Tomorrow I can dry the other almost dry stuff and then all of today's washing.
. Amazing how quickly it drys in just 20 minutes, that'd take me 90 minutes at home.
Feed cats, to McD's for a meal & newspaper, internet and home to watch video & sleep.

Tomorrow, make space for last lot of motherboards, maybe clean some (large sockets) down, alls left is large sockets & telecom heatsinks & some Ali sheet to clean. With any luck I could have some escrap weights for you.
I think I had 108 CPU, 40 of them purple ceramics of all sorts.
More hard drives than I thought because some computers had two of them.
Its raining tomorrow.

Last night I decided to use a heatgun to remove the Ali heatsinks that are glued onto some plastic chips on the telecom equipment.
It works really well, better than using hot water.
About 3-5 seconds with the heatgun and (dip fingers into cold water first!!) pick the heatsink off, there's a "sissss" as the heat boils the water on your fingers.....
I have 25Kg of Ali heatsinks, I hope to get a proper heatsink price. (NZ$2/Kg?)

I also removed x 2. i986 purple ceramic CPU. I thought it was a BGA chip soldered direct to the board, but it was pinned legs & I levered it out with a screwdriver using the heatgun.
On the second one, decided to be smart and upturn the board and smack it on the table to remove the hot chip....
Nah.... I got a hot chip, covered with chucks of molten solder, soldered to the Gold legs and plating underneath...

Tonight, on curbco, I found a fax machine, and Two very huge ribbon type printers. Old school printers, industrial.
I now know these are worth good money $100's... And to save and sell them.

I have sold off my light gauge sheet steel from the computers,, got about NZ$50 (US$35) for all of it plus some extra.
Petrol $ and maybe fix a flat tyre from driving on the Scrapyard's area.....

Our NZ$1 equals US$0.70cents at the moment.

Today I sold all of the Aluminium chassis cases from the Hard Drives & all the Cast Ali parts from the servers.
33Kg of HD chassis & 7Kg of cast Ali. = NZ$56.

Other weights I have figured out are. (From the 110 computers & server escrap I bought for NZ$180)
6Kg daughter (?) Boards from computers
3.5Kg DVD boards from Laser disc readers (there are about 12 CD writers not included)
4.5Kg Hard drive boards
2Kg RAM memory
20Kg of extruded Ali heatsinks. (Which they won't give me a special price for, just priced as 'Ali extruded'. This does not include all the power supply heatsinks)

106 CPU all up.
21 Purple Ceramic CPU, various inc 1 K5
4 Brown fibre
14 Green fibre
2 Intel thick Brown fibre
3 Pentium III Green fibre Copper top
9 AMD Athion64 Green fibre, large Copper top
36 small pinned CPU Copper top.
17 pinless CPU Copper top

In all, all of my Purple ceramic CPU Gold content adds up to over 16gms..... NZ$900 worth of Gold. I wish I could sell it like that......

Wow, eesakiwi, your posts about your scrapping life are always so detailed!! I can't remember if I've said this before or not but I think you should take this thread, maybe add a bit about your daily life outside of scrapping, and get it published as a book. I think there would be a market for it. You could call it it something like, 21st Century Metals Man or a Diary of a Scrapper in Kiwi Land or ....?

I do a lot or reading.... And I was born on the cusp of Imperial to Metric in NZ.

That ment, from there on when we were taught in school, everything changed for our year, we didn't learn fractions, but learnt percentages, next year it was 'zero point ?' decimals.

I remember being sent to the local fruit shop to 'Buy 2 Lbs of bananas'. (In 1978) As in "Buy 2 pounds of bananas".
I converted 2 pounds, English £, as $6 and got a huge box of bananas...... Defiantly not 900 grams of bananas.

While everything has two meanings, I have to try harder to make sure to 'box it', make sure that from every direction the info is solid and contained.
We had to describe a metal object at school metalwork class as a assignment once.
Within a few minutes the next day, 1/2 the class were ruled out, soon we narrowed it down to 4 & I pointed out problems with their descriptions, in the end, only my description stood.
('Boxed', no way to get out of it, no freedom in any direction and it stood unsupported on three pillars of substance, 'Stood')


Hey something I have been thinking about a bit lately.
Where I did my apprenticeship in Fitting/turning ('Machine shop' in American).
The owners were American, from Los Angeles, the owner came over in, I think 1954. I think he had served in the Pacific during the war.
I think he had a 'South Pacific' like romance in the Pacific islands.
They had a machine shop in Los Angeles that made parts for the air force, High pressure oxygen tanks etc.

Now the engineering workshop they bought in NZ made lots of small items, parts for fridgeration units which were rare in NZ prewar, you actually had to build them into the house. Machined grenades for the war effort.
In their early days they had a coal fired steam engine which drove a shaft thru the roof, which drove all the machines by belt. Remnants of it were still there, the paint bay was the steam engine room and the office backed onto it because it made it warm....

But, one day I was asked to 'Get up into the roof of the house' beside the workshops to check for a roof leak.
I found there had been a fire in the attic, and a small pile of Popular Mechanics magazines.
I brought a few down and the boss was amused, he looked for the date on them and mentioned that "The guy my Father bought this workshop off in 1954 ( date ?) was shifting overseas.

He had been writing articals for Popular Mechanics for years and was offered the job as Editor for Popular Mechanics.
They joked together when the workshop was being sold that "They were pretty much swapping homes, lifestyles and firms".

If anybody can help with some info about this it would help me out a lot, one of the bosses sons lives not far from here.

But one thing surprised me a while ago when I opened a old PopularMechanics book in a second hand shop.
It was a advertisement for either car bearings or oil. It mentioned "From Hudson bay to Gummies bush, you can rely on us to get you there"
Gummies bush, is a small locality on the south coast of the NZ's south island. Its almost unknown anywhere else. There's no town or such, just a few farms. How would anybody in America know of it?

Its named, its funny, in the early days a Scottish land survyer surveyed the areas around the bottom south island, he gave them Maori names describing the areas.
He got a letter back from London saying they 'Wanted more English sounding names to build a connection for the English emigrants arriving there and setting up farms".
So, being Scottish .... And not happy at all, sat down and went thru the names with a few wiskeys and a quill pen....
Gummies bush, Centre bush, Heddon bush, Fairfax, Riles bush, Wrights bush,
Southillend, Winton, Queenstown, Kingstown, Arrow town, Riverton....
and a bunch of Scottish names, Glenorchy, Invercargill, lawerance town,
and Catholic names too, Mitre peak, Coronet peak.... All done one drunken night on a whim.

'Gummie' was a older toothless Maori who lived there in a small hut. Otherwise it was empty land.

The other Popular Mechanics connection. They followed a Kiwi called Burt Monroe, he's 'famous in NZ' for his world record motorbike. He lived a short distance from Gummies Bush.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burt_Munro
They even made a film about him starring Anthony Hopkins.

This sort of remote innovation was a necessity back then, we call it "Number 8 wire" after a #8 fencing wire which could be used to make and fix almost anything.

We also invented the airplane.... ;-). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Pearse. down there in the deep south too.
(Ah we love needling the Yanks about that one) In reality, The Wrights got there first, proper documenataion & results.

Its a early night for me tonight, spotayh/e

Thin servers.

I bought 4 of them, with power supply's, for $5, just to get them and find out a little more about them.

At some time in the past I scrapped about 12 of them, but with no power supply's.

The guy who sold me the 4 said that
"You'd make money just by selling those power supply's at some point if you wanted to, & scrap the thin servers if you want".

Now a few days ago I got about 100 of them, no power supply's either, and a bunch of monitors.
There's not much to them, but hey, it's escrap to go with the other escrap & the more I have the better.

What I have noticed is...
My bank, which used them, has upgraded, since these machines are now 10 years old, not suprised.
(but they still have some real old noisy dot matrix printers for statements and...a 1980's setup for putting the PIN # onto bank cards, weird.)
And, of the thin clients I have, there's two sorts, a HP T5300 533mhz, I am scrapping these right now.
And a HP T5520 800mhz, its got extra connections on the rear panel, I put these aside.

They stack really nice into old 'banana boxes', after a short time I found if I stack them connections up, I can unscrew the hex Brass nuts on the interconnections and the two little screws holding the plastic case on, without them moving around all the time.
Then as I pull them out, I snap off the plastic case & stack them on edge so I can get to one of the two screws holding the metal case on.
When you do hundreds of something, a few seconds saved on each helps a lot.
Nothing worse than having to go right back thru the lot to fix or do something that didn't work 100% the first time.

While the units are in 4 banana boxes, I think all of the boards will fit into just one..... The sheet metal fits nicely into old microwaves cases, I have got about 4 or 5 of them lately.

And, since its pretty anonymous here and you can have a laugh at my expense, and I just have to tell somebody.
I gave a ride home to a drunk female a few nights ago, as a nondrinker I do a lot of 'sober driving' for drunks....
I get there and she talks a bit and drifts off, as I'm trying to find out her actual house # since I'm on the right street.
I notice a dripping sound and think 'its that **** leak in the door seal I am trying to find and fix', then relise its not raining.....
Ouch.....

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I notice a dripping sound and think 'its that **** leak in the door seal I am trying to find and fix', then relise its not raining.....
Ouch.....

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LOL. Reminds me of a time, many years ago, where I helped lift a drunk old guy into a Taxi. I quickly realized my hand was wet. My first instinct was to drop him - I didn't, I got him in the Taxi OK. I was then standing there on the street with a pee soaked hand, disgusted, wondering what to do next. I got over it quick enough, but being a smoker at the time, I had to fight the urge for a cigarette until I got home and washed my hands. Hats off to health care workers who deal with bodily fluids all the time.

Thanks, in my own way I'm glad it didn't happen in a taxi, that$ expensive and a pain for the driver.
She's actually quite nice and I will catch up with her at some point soonish.

Was fixing the house today, putting in a rain guttering and was washing clothes at the same time, in a Haier washing machine...

It takes hours to do a single wash, design faults galore, Chinese, even the dashboards made to be read from right to left, takes ages to fill, water just dribbles in, 1/2 the time even when actually washing, it just sits there going 'wrr wirr' with no action at all.
I end up filling it with buckets of water as well as the plumbed water supply.
So its almost finished, filling last tub, and I tip the ladder I'm using over and dump it on the ground near the house.
Next thing, huge geyser of water, I broke the outside tap, where its connected to the underground hose at a plastic tee joint, alkathene piping....
****!, turn water supply off, washing mc stops, dig out plastic water pipe from underground, just as its going dark, cannot remove fitting, mess around on my knees in mud, dig out small pit beside to get rid of excess water, figure out I can cut plastic pipe with some Copper wire loppers, find some fittings & get propane torch, get rid of water in the top of the pipe, slide on tapered nut thing, heat up pipe, screw in tapered threaded fitting to open up pipe, undo and heat and lever it open more, heat and force in tapered fitting, remove and heat and push in the proper hose barb fitting with tap on end, screw up nut with undersized monkey wrench, one flat at a time till its tight, in full dark with flickery LED torch, on knees, down wet muddy hole.
Finally finished. Washing mc gets tubs of water dumped in it to fill it up, goes thru wash cycle as excuse for 'final rinse', then coffee!!!
Set spin dry (why does that have to be done manually? Its the only function I like on the machine, if it did it at the end of the whole cycle to extra spin dry the clothes it would be useful, but I have to wait till its done its thing, then start it up again to extra spin dry)

Once done, to laundromat to pay NZ$6 (US$4.50) to dry 2 loads in 40 minutes, buy hot chips to eat, get given wrong sort, not my day..

Tomorrow, cat to the vet and replace two broken window panes, fit guttering in two places and downpipes in three.
More $ from bank too.
Oh, got rid of some microwave cases to clean up outside today, 100kgs, worth NZ$4 (US$3.00) and its clean lighgauge, no plastic at all, sucks.
Get into car to find out some SOAB has stolen all my parking meter change $3+ in small coins......I left the car unlocked last night with a dehumidifier running inside it to soak up some of the 'water' in the car before it gets funky....
In a day or two I will remove seat and carpet and get them washed and wet vacuumed. She better he worth it..... I think so.

Oh, I can fit exactly 50 Thin client motherboards into a Banana box. Neat fact, perfect fit 100%.

A nice find last night, curbco.

Invertor Heatpump, both the inside & outside units. Nice Ali/Copper radiator, Copper tubes, some Copper wire, fridge compressor (sell as is, not worth scrapping for Cu, too heavy, not enough Cu)

60 inch Plasma flat screen. Samsung? PS 60C91 HX. Its not turning on at all, there's a yellow LED on inside it, makes 'clicks' & then nothing. Screens intact. The little control panel is making something happen inside it having something to do with its 'startup' .

Maybe power supply?.Or a bad relay? I think relay or something close to it.
I will take a better look at it tomorrow. Maybe a bad capacitor if I have any luck.

I cannot find any info at all about it, on the net. Or 'badcaps.net' either.

Haha, last night I had another very drunk girl jump into my car....
She wanted me to "light her cigarette" for her, she was with friends at that time, then sorta ditched them by standing outside untiill they left. Telling them to leave anyway, I think she was peeved at them for some reason.
So as I am still using free WiFi, she falls asleep and then wakes up and says "I'm gonna spew", uh oh...
So I hand her my work safety helmet, she spits into it a bit, then farts, well after last time, I hope its a fart....
Boy did it linger, even a day later its still lingering...

Now she looked no more than 19, 18 is legal age to get drunk here, and a real honey, the spanish/Maori style, she is actually 27......
Still find that hard to believe, but its on her driving license. I found her 'similar looking' sister, (actually the whole family is) on facebook, turns out both know a lot of the same people in this town.
So she got back to her familys home safe and was deeply sorry about vomiting into my helmet, her brother thought it was really funny too. :-)

And the Plasma screen?.
Yep a Samsung, 2007 model, I opened it today and in 4 seconds found a blown capacitor on the power board, and two more, one on each board going to the screens edges, must be a weak point since they were both the same cap in the same circuit.
Easy to fix/replace. Went for ten years, might still do it again.

There's some smaller Ali can caps, medicine tablet size, with a square plastic base, that seem a little 'expanded', not leaking though, across a board on the bottom of the screen.
I will not change them, there's about 15 of them and the boards under other metal parts & not easy to get to like the other boards.

I wish I could have the remote control for these TV's. I have some 'programmable remote controls' but have had no luck getting them to work on my current plasma flat screen. Most CRT's have the remote with them when I find one.
Its not that a big of a problem as since these flat screens are not digital, they need a 'set top box' and almost everything can be done off that anyway.

The heatpump got fully scrapped out today too, it will get weighed up tomorrow.
There's a leaky guttering on the house to be fixed,, its too long and the end droops and leaks. Important job, the other part of the guttering didn't have enough 'drop' and was filling up & overflowing off its edge when it really poured down.

Oh, found a ''night store heater'. They were popular years ago, used cheaper night time power to heat a bunch of bricks and then release the heat during the day.

They have some paving stone size bricks in them, (16?) And a slab of cast Aluminium with a heater element cast into it, a inch thick and 2 x 1 1/2 feet in size, weighs enough to make it worth pulling apart.
The bricks make great pavers, I make two layers of them, staggered, and they stay in place and look good, while the holes in them let the rain water drain right thru.

I'm getting the capacitors tomorrow (Monday) & finishing off the guttering, and maybe do a messy sweaty job digging garden or such before a shower.

Sounds like that might have been more than a fart. You might want to get some absorbent pads for your travel companions to sit on and a plastic bucket or some barf bags probably wouldn't hurt either.

We have successfully used vinegar in a spray bottle to treat dog "spots" it should work well with drunk chick "spots". 73, Mike

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Haha, last night I had another very drunk girl jump into my car....
She wanted me to "light her cigarette" for her,

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Mine was a Scandavaian beauty 49 years old, she stayed with me for a couple of weeks.

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Mine was a Scandavaian beauty 49 years old, she stayed with me for a couple of weeks.

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She must have known a good thing when she saw it, (to take some time out from a overseas tour to experience some of the 'Real America'). Good man.

I went to a electronics store here to get the capacitors, a 35v 1500uf & two 25v 680uf, they didn't have any..... Weird.
They can be bought off TradeMe (our eBay) , it works out to be $4 each with postage.... And two sales..

There's another shop I will try tomorrow, or its a search thru my old CRT boards etc to find some, its a good time to scrap some of them down anyway.


The Invertor heatpump gave up...
750 gms of Brass. NZ$2.75
3000gms of Copper domestic. NZ$14.50
9000gms of Ali/Copper radiators == NZ$24.50
And a 20kg fridge compressor. & a fan motor encased in resin. NZ$11.50

A grand total of NZ$53.25. Not bad for free $$$

The light gauge sheet metal will pay for dumping the plastic....
There was a small circuit board and no heatsink at all. Most of them have a 1kg+ heatsink, which can be sold on 'TradeMe' for good $$
I was quite surprised to find there was not one at all. It was a bigger unit than normal and a Fujitsu brand name.

eesakiwi one stop shopping for all your electronic parts, DigiKey Electronics - Electronic Components Distributor

Digikey is a global company with an outlet in Nz, no fuss with money exchange or getting ripped off with excessive postage.

You can get the 25v 680uf caps in tantalum. http://www.digikey.co.nz/product-search/en/capacitors/tantalum-capacitors/131082?k=25v%20680uf

This one 35v 1500uf in premium has a life span of 15,000 hours at 105 degrees "c".

Wow, thanks for that Alloy. I honestly learn something from every post you make, and this websites on my own backdoor..!

I tried another two shops here today, they didn't have any either and then searched a CRT TV board & got a 700uf 25volt, and 4 'paintdrop Tantis' (0.6gms..).
I have ordered the capacitors and with any luck its all that the flat screen needs.

If it does fix it, it will be my first ever 'fixed appliance by way of a bad capactor' and a new string to my bow.

Its really got to the point that I need to sell stuff, my bedrooms full of flat screens & I cannot get around it now...
There's at least 4 that actually work, and a lot of broken screen units, and one that needs a slight fix & reassembled.
I guess I could get a average of $80 each for them, maybe $100 if its a large screen. No remotes though.

Thanks again/e

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Wow, thanks for that Alloy. I honestly learn something from every post you make, and this websites on my own backdoor..!

I tried another two shops here today, they didn't have any either and then searched a CRT TV board & got a 700uf 25volt, and 4 'paintdrop Tantis' (0.6gms..).
I have ordered the capacitors and with any luck its all that the flat screen needs.

If it does fix it, it will be my first ever 'fixed appliance by way of a bad capactor' and a new string to my bow.

Its really got to the point that I need to sell stuff, my bedrooms full of flat screens & I cannot get around it now...
There's at least 4 that actually work, and a lot of broken screen units, and one that needs a slight fix & reassembled.
I guess I could get a average of $80 each for them, maybe $100 if its a large screen. No remotes though.

Thanks again/e

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A lot of flatscreen TV's have been showing up, brought one home and found that the problem was an easy fix, same problem your having no remotes. If your house is an older one you should check to see that the power outlet in the wall is grounded if not you cvould be energising the metal chassis of any appliance your working on.

I've currently upgraded our service panel from 100 to a 200 amp and purchased a tic tracer which helps me indentify a live wire in a circuit amoung other faults it's a handy tool. The one I purchased is made by GB it;s a tad too sensitive picking up transiant voltages in the milliamps.

This sensitivity could have uses, for instance if I pass the tic tracer over each earphone pod it lights up and beeps indicating a complete circuit is present in the pod if one had been burnt out I would not get have gotten a positive reading.

On a side note have begun repairing refridgerators, most only need the defrost timer replaced, have the course material to get my freon certification the course is $180.00 and $25.00 a year to keep it current. Still thinking weither or not to get certified then yesterday found a pair of large R134 and an R12 reciever tanks at Jacks, maybe these are indicators that I should take the course.

On the flip side being certified woulld officially in the eyes of the law be recognised as professional where the rules have now changed I would have a morel obligation to report infractions of which every landfill would be guilty of, I do not have any desire to be an enviromental cop for the province.



http://media.fluke.com/images/1aca-ii-03a-600x402.jpg

For whatever it's worth i've had good luck ordering complete capacitor kits from these guys:LCDalternatives

There was a thing years back where one of the major capacitor manufacturers messed up. A large number of bad caps entered the market and messed up a number of major brands. That's pretty much blown over now.

The bad caps you see now have more to do with line voltage spikes. A lot harder to repair cause they chase through to a number of boards beyond the power supply. To be honest ... i haven't had any luck repairing the flat screen tv's.

Definitely worth a try though.

ETA: If you Google the make & model that you're working on that can be a big help. Certain problems are common certain models. Chances are ... if you're having a problem, somebody else has already run into it. They might have even done a youtube video on how to fix it. :)

Agreed, youtube can be very helpful with lcd tv's. Mike

I found some more info by just googleing the board #.
. This makes sense as from what I read somewhere else, the board makers and the screen makers are two completely different manufacturers, there's no connection between them at all.

Its only the assembler who decides what to buy, pick n mix, and assembles it for their buyer, so the name on the TV might mean something, and it may not, quality wise.

The board is a S50HW YB02. (PDP module?)

From that I find out that the boards working even when its on 'standby'. So switching the things off while you are not using it is a good idea.....
And, they 'cheap out' the board by using capacitors with too low a voltage. Between the two, they fail.

I have found a electronics place in Christchurch who sell the capacitors. Postage/courier here in NZ absolutely kills the potential of buying parts. Ie, the postage is 2 - 20 times the value of the parts...
I can send them cash in a envelope & they send the parts in a pretty much standard plastic envelope for a few $.

I have never had much, actually, never had any luck with buying stuff over the net using a credit card.

Spent days trying to buy something and get it sent to somebody in America, it would work, then reverses.
. In the end I used some international payment system thru a shop here in town, it cost me a fantastic amount to do it.
Our NZ$ was bad at the time, worth US0.40 cents.... And it cost $50 for the paperwork, that's NZ$120.....

In the end it cost me over $550 and its something you would not even blink a eye at as you scrapped it down for its PCB board....

The other time, cost me NZ$200, for some books that never got delivered, later I found a PDF of them on the net. For free, nah, well it cost me $200 to start with.
I tried a MasterCard buy for some of the caps for the flat screen a couple of days ago, everything went well until I hit the 'buy' button.
At that point it stopped working.

So I have paid NZ$6.50 for one 1500uf capacitor.
And the seller of the other two 680uf caps, sends me a email saying he's 'Out of stock'.... "Don't deposit the money!!". haha!

Oh well.... The guy in Chch... I can get them off him now, and a higher voltage value now too. For like $2 each.

I do have a 'Fluke' brand pencil sized tester, it buzzes on no resistance and picks up stray power on live cables, its got a digital readout too.

I'm using this experience to find a good component seller, because if this works, I can start looking into my other flat screens and maybe start advertising and paying for broken units. Even obtaining working remote controls for them.

They all need a 'box top' control unit to pick up digital reception now, anything over 4 yes old only picks up the normal UHF/VHF signal, which stopped transmitting 3 years ago.

My satellite dish has shifted a bit, so its not picking up a signal either.
I have about 6 digital decoders for the sat dish.
To get it sorted... Oh no..... here we go... Reroute the sat cable to where its needed (get up into the roof etc..ouch). reroute cable down walls...
Connect up sat box, climb up onto roof, connect cable to power thingy to see what's picked up & going thru the cable, shift dish, & I don't know if the testing power thingy actually works yet.
Connect to TV & Pick up transmission.

Its a LOT of work, and its winter here now. Though there is only one way forward & that's to get off my rrrrrr's & do it.

I'm off to McDonalfs now, triple cheeseburger meal deal, swap coke for milkshake & a mcfloat as well, NZ$10.40 (US$7.20)
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