Good morning!!!!

[Kyle_in_Tex]

I got the TV apart and checked the three boards. No visible sings of buldge in any of the capacitors. No burn no melts. Checked out a tv repair place near Georgetown. He gave me a hint of maybe a cracked solder. He also said he could check it out for $45 and if I decided the final repair was too much and wanted to buy a new TV the $45 would go to a new TV. I'll pack it up and take it to him Monday. he said the TV I have is a 2K and now the new TVs are 4K I'm only one generation old. My bedroom TV is four generations old.
Kyle I checked out the curved 4K TVs at Sam's, and also the 60" 4k Sony at the repairs shop. The sony had a better picture but I'm not quite ready to throw in the towel on the old set.
Thanks for the heads up on the monitors. That cut out about half of the selections.

LG's 218 OLED TVs rule, but the 217 models are much better deals - CNET

These are an order of magnitude better picture, but also price.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

I checked out the curved 4K TVs at Sam's, and also the 60" 4k Sony at the repairs shop.

The picture you see on the displays isn't the best picture you can get. Most TVs these days come with a built in display setting that stores use when they set them up to let people look at them. It usually over saturates the colors and is designed to make the crappy cable TV feed look good. If you really wanna get the skinny on how well (or how badly) a TV will work for you, spend some time on Amazon or the specialized video/home theater sites that do in depth ratings on the things. $.02...

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Oh, and my experience with the capacitors is that they LOOK just fine, but they don't work. Do a google search using the number printed onto the outside of the capacitor you want to replace, and you'll turn up not only places to buy a replacement, usually for less than a dollar, but lists of devices that they were used in and maybe even tutorials on how to replace them.

 

[txdon]

Oh, and my experience with the capacitors is that they LOOK just fine, but they don't work. Do a google search using the number printed onto the outside of the capacitor you want to replace, and you'll turn up not only places to buy a replacement, usually for less than a dollar, but lists of devices that they were used in and maybe even tutorials on how to replace them.

There are a lot more capacitors than I thought, probably about 20. Unlike the youtube tutorial these capacitors are mounted sideways.
I like the Mom and pop repair shop they seem to really know their TVs. They know all the "generic" brands and which companies still manufacture their own sets.
I have a few days to research Amazon, thanks.

Thanks for the link Kyle.

 

[Eric Salop]

I've been watching some youtubes on how to fix the TV. The TV just clicks and nothing happens and is most likely a capacitor. Has anyone replace a capacitor in a TV?

Don, to desolder a component like an electrolytic capacitor it's best to use either a small desolder pump or some desolder braid that you place on top of the joint and heat with a solder wetted iron, then all the solder wickes up the braid to leave a clean circuit board. It's easy, but perhaps best to practice on a scrap board first or else the pcb track may lift.

The tricky part is getting the correct replacement capacitor. Those most likely to fail are in the power supply and their replacement in an SMPS (switched mode power supply) needs to not only have the correct voltage rating and capacitance, it but it also needs to present a low impedance to repeated rapidly changing currents. Unless you can buy exactly the same component, you need to select one with an adequate "ESR" for that circuit, or else it will not perform as intended and may well overheat internally.

That repair shop will know from experience where best to look if it is not obvious where the failure is. I would be happy to support a local Mom & Pop shop that gave that sort of service.

 

[Eric Salop]

What's with all this wedding talk, did I miss something yesterday ? If only ...

I'll bet that epoxy was intended to be sprayed, not brushed, Eric.

Yes, you are right. When I ordered the epoxy I forgot the thinners and chanced brushing it. Never mind, it's just another one of those experiences that all go together to make life interesting.

Ron, that is a beautifully built dolly. Now what you need is some good tough paint on the steel - and I happen to know someone with a few spare pints of epoxy they will gladly give you

It looks like to be on the safe side, they ordered an additional day's good weather for the royal wedding, so I intend to make the most of that today and get started with the weeds emerging on the hay field. I get paid a small subsidy from the government for not boom spraying to preserve all the native plants that grow up with the grass. That necessitates a lot of walking to keep the invasive weeds down, though this still being May, I'm hoping it's too early for the horse flies to be out wanting me to make a blood donation.

 

[wngsprd]

69 going to 87, maybe no rain until tonight, maybe.

Eric, hope you get a horsefly-less walk...the deer flies already started chasing me 3 days ago.

Standing water is starting to recede. May start a clean up of debris that washed up from the creek into one of my trails. Yesterday afternoon Coco found a long lost Frisbee that she had lost in the creek...it had washed downstream and up on the bank in a pile of sticks. Also need to do some shovel work where some of the crossing eroded.

RS, hope you are progressing well, and stating away from the smokes.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Morning all. Heard something about a wedding yesterday, but no one i knew.

Up for bathroom break. Doves are cooing. Birds chirping. Guess it is starting to get light out. Back to bed for me.

I bought 55" samsung tv recently to replace 50" sony projection tv. Such a huge difference in picture quality. Bought the vizio 65" display to use at church for a computer display. Good luck with the capacitor. Power supply is first place to look.

 

[Looking4new]

41 and going to a high of 63. Wind NNW 9 gusting to 17 mph. Mix of sun and cloud. It is going to be like this all week.

The rain wasn't too bad, so I threw some grass seed around on the bare spots left from the failed raised bed project.

Gardening is fun stuff, BUT ya gotta keep the weeds out. The D-I-L is the one with the green thumb and she isn't in good enough shape to do it anymore.

The only gardening I could ever do was to grow pot. Yes, I did grow some, once upon a time. Not no more, though. I will wait until it is legal, then watch the plantation grow.

Have a good day all

 

[RoyJackson]

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53 right now...high in the low 70's.
Main chore is to finish up assembling the chipper. The only thing left is the PTO shaft...oh yeah, and the skid shoes. We'd have had it done yesterday, but once the rain started, it was pretty miserable.
I'll need to get some screws for a replacement PC fan today too....looked high and low, but I have none long enough to mount this fan.


Ronhall, as far as the support bracket....I'll just see how well it does. If it doesn't work (as you'd written), I'll come up with something. I do want the support on the input chute when the chipper isn't rigged to the tractor.

 

[Ed of all trades]

Good morning all, 65 this morning going to 85 with a 20% chance of T-storms. Got the grass mowed yesterday even if it was a little damp. Places were getting way to tall. Couple of wife's nephews stopped in yesterday afternoon and we had a good visit. Will likely take it easy today.

Nice looking new equipment guys.

Prayers for healing and quitting. Have a great day. Ed

 

[daugen]

Good morning. Woke up to light drizzle, which when done seems to point to drier morning, then thunderstorms again this afternoon.

24 inches of rain so far this year here and I've missed the heaviest stuff which went North.
Unfortunately it always seems that one area gets too much rain and another just looks wistfully on while green turns brown.

Roy, what a nice rig. Surprising how far that thing sticks out in the back isn't it? I found I had to be very, very careful going into the woods with it, planning my turnaround spots carefully in dense woods.
Looks like Woodmaxx is doing ok, that's three of us right here who have bought their products in the last year. I liked the fact I could actually buy something from them made in New York.

 

[ronjhall]

Waiting on fist cup of coffee to cool down so it's drinkable. 57° with light rain this morning. Heading to 66° with cloudy skies. Little cool down for a few day. Neigbor is cleaning up a area of their yard. Going to go over there and see what I can clean up with FEL. If that does not work. I will put BH on tractor dig out a small old stump and some roots.

I would like to take credit for the dolly design and construction. What you are seeing is bottom of metal crate that Woodmaxx shipped Flail Mower in. I removed all the upper parts of crate and put 4 HD casters in 4 corners. They sure like to use the bolts and nylock nuts to assemble crate. I still have a one pound coffee can 1/2 filled with them. The crate must have weighed close to 150 lbs. Stored on a shelf in barn is about 100 lbs of galvanized steel angle iron.

Eric, not a lot of painting to do. Most of the iron is galvanized steel. I thought it was painted. Bare steel will probably not get painted. It will stay in barn out of the weather.

Don, good luck with TV repair/buying. 2 of my TV's are Vizio along with the 3 I had in motorhome. Like them a lot. I figure if they can stand up to vibrations in a motorhome. There must be something good about them. The other is a Volare. Supposedly made for Samsung. 39" bought at Walmart Black Friday Sale. OTA tuner died. That's why I bought the adapter linked above.

RS, Buppies, LS and others. Best wishes for continued recovery.

Payers for all those in need.

Good Morning All.

 

[RoyJackson]

Good morning. Woke up to light drizzle, which when done seems to point to drier morning, then thunderstorms again this afternoon.

24 inches of rain so far this year here and I've missed the heaviest stuff which went North.
Unfortunately it always seems that one area gets too much rain and another just looks wistfully on while green turns brown.

Roy, what a nice rig. Surprising how far that thing sticks out in the back isn't it? I found I had to be very, very careful going into the woods with it, planning my turnaround spots carefully in dense woods.
Looks like Woodmaxx is doing ok, that's three of us right here who have bought their products in the last year. I liked the fact I could actually buy something from them made in New York.

Well, assembled in NY.
Most of it is made in China and Woodmaxx does the assembly. IIRC, you have an 8800 or 9900. Those, I believe, are fully assembled upon delivery...except, I suppose, for the PTO shaft fitting. The 8H requires some assembly....wasn't too bad with two guys. I think my neighbor got a bit frustrated with me...I go step by step per the manual...he's a bit more mechanically inclined and moves quite a bit faster then I do.

I hope I can figure out a way to store this inside during the winter months. Due to the weight, I'm going to have to give it some thought. I hate leaving equipment outside, but my tractor is too tall to back all the way in the garage. My outbuilding's garage door is also too low for the tractor and has a dirt floor.

 

[ronjhall]

Looks like Woodmaxx is doing ok, that's three of us right here who have bought their products in the last year. I liked the fact I could actually buy something from them made in New York.

Some of their stuff is made in China. Then shipped to New York for final assembly and inspection. Your MX8800 was made in USA.

 

[toppop52]

Good morning, Ellen says hi, more rain overnight. 9.06” of rain this week.
Going to a gospel concert later, need to mow, guess I’ll install the floats on the mower.
Hope you all have a good day.
Prayers for all, Buppies, get well fast.

 

[ronjhall]

I hope I can figure out a way to store this inside during the winter months. Due to the weight, I'm going to have to give it some thought. I hate leaving equipment outside, but my tractor is too tall to back all the way in the garage. My outbuilding's garage door is also too low for the tractor and has a dirt floor.

Check out my dolly for the 8H.
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OPP's missed dirt floor.

 

[RoyJackson]

Check out my dolly for the 8H.
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OPP's missed dirt floor.

Thanks for the picture!
I see you remove the hydraulic controller to reduce overhang weight. That's a good idea. Do you support the input chute in any way? A side view would be appreciated.
Never mind...I see you remove the chute completely


I don't mind leaving the chipper out during the warmer weather (covered with a trap when not in use), but I'd like to get it inside during the winter.
My 3PH snow blower is out all year long...sometimes covered with a tarp. The flail mower is in the outbuilding (on a pallet) I had described previously (dirt floor building)

 

[ronjhall]

Thanks for the picture!
I see you remove the hydraulic controller to reduce overhang weight. That's a good idea. Do you support the input chute in any way? A side view would be appreciated.
Never mind...I see you remove the chute completely

Picture shows chipper before I installed valves. In my pole barn there is 10' clearance. But other 2 building have 7' ceilings. I take chute off for storage there. Not likely to store it in those 2 buildings. But Flail Mower and rototiller may go in there this winter. Need person that purchased my old Bearcat to come and pick it up.
I will take a side picture while I am getting tiller out today.

 

[Thomas]

55F cloudy low 70's for high... couple AM showers PM sun.

Plans for today....might take trimmer for walk side field this morning and mow this afternoon,or cut stack wood this afternoon should be dryer to handle.
Setting in chair just inside wood shed last evening little chipmunk decided we should be friends,he/she sat on my knee wash its face than strength out close its eyes...my new buddy.
Time to get the feet moving so grab E-muffin feed the little critters.

Enjoy the day all.