hollym12•20d agoMost Upvoted

The guy at the repair shop laughed when I asked about fixing my old CRT monitor

I was dropping off a laptop at this shop in Akron last Tuesday and overheard the tech tell a customer that nobody even bothers with CRT repairs anymore. He said they just throw them in the dumpster because the parts are impossible to find and nobody pays for the labor. It got me thinking about how much stuff we used to fix that now gets trashed without a second thought. Has anyone here actually managed to keep an old CRT running past 2020?

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charles_green20d ago

Didn't a guy on YouTube fix one with parts from old VCRs?

eric_johnson20d ago

Hate to be that guy but YouTube fixes are hit or miss. That guy had a specific model with a simple mechanical failure. Most modern electronics have surface mount boards and custom chips. You're not pulling a voltage regulator from a 1992 VCR and soldering it into a 2023 smart display. That's just not how it works anymore. Plus those videos always cut out the part where they spent three hours troubleshooting. It's entertainment, not a repair manual.