WAYNE CHIRNSIDE wrote in a message to ROY J. TELLASON:

-=> ROY J. TELLASON wrote to PETER MAY <=-

 RJT> Peter May wrote in a message to All:

 PM> Maybe, why are these things so darned difficult to fix?

 RJT> Because the manufacturers have absolutely no incentive to make them any
 RJT> other way,  and lots of incentive to sell you a new one instead...
 RJT> :-(

 WC> I was working on a Japanese porta-pack early video camera recorder
 WC> and it was a bit of a bear to get going but get it going I did. 

 WC> On this newer stuff I entirely agree with you.

 WC> At least the Hitachi porta-pack video recorder was large
 WC> and though requiring extensive disassembly to repair it
 WC> was doable, this new stuff is disposable electronics :-(

I just hate it...

Worse yet,  you can't even find much in the way of salvageable parts in
much of it these days.  If I hadn't been scrapping stuff for years already,
 I'd be out of luck!

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