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 Roy J. Tellason wrote in a message to Phil Marlowe
 
> >
 
 MR>> I use the sensitive tuner in an older broken
 MR>> vcr (never throw those out as they had the best
 MR>> tuners) which doesn't have a blue screen of death
 MR>> (argh!).
 
PM> Good tip, that. The newer ones are duds in that
PM> department. And I think I have one of those old
PM> ones around here somewhere.
 
 [...]
 
 PM> But I think what Mike is saying above is that
 PM> you can use a broken one as a tuner? At least one
 PM> in which the tuner is intact.
 
RJT> Yeah, that's what I was thinking about, yanking
RJT> the tuner portions out of one or more of the dead
RJT> ones I have in storage for parts.
 
 Do you have to go to the trouble of yanking
 the tuner portion from the VCR? Can't you rig it
 up by simply connecting the old VCR to your TV --
 using the TV as a monitor? You can't play tapes
 but you can then at least use the VCR's remote to
 switch channels.
 
 I'm assuming here that only the tape mechanism on
 the broken VCR is defective, and everything else
 works.
 
 How did you set yours up, Mike?
 
 Is what I suggest workable?
 
 

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