Electronics Forum / Repair / April 2007

Does anyone know where I can buy a replacement screen for a 50 inch
rear-projection television?
it's a year 2000 mitsubishi
the entire tv is only worth a few hundred dollars, so that's my budget

A few years ago my Sony Trinitron stopped receiving broadcast whenever
i had an antenna hooked up to it, the speakers would play a tv shows
sound for 2 seconds and then go out with sound of snow and the picture
would go fuzzy.Now I just use it for movies and gaming because the

I'm trying to replace the optical pickup in a Bose CD wave radio, but
I'm having trouble finding the correct part.  It's labeled Sanyo
SF-P100 and I've tried two SF-P100 pickups from two sources, but both
have had a different electrical connector with a different number of

Looking for a service manual ( paper, CD or electronic) for a Harman
Kardon TA7000 receiver. In particular the section(s) dealing with the
bias settings for the amplifier and the alignment of the tuner
sections. SAM's has nothing listed and HK can't help either.

my sony dvp-ns41p dvd player from costco stopped working after about 1
months with a "can't read this disc" type of message and after takin
the top of I could see the disc was not turning. I gave the disc
little push and off it went but only for a minute or so, then when

Looking for Philips KR3684 34cm tv (circa 1980's) service manual, especially now it switched itself off (fuse OK, degausser sounds like it comes on, +300vdc present on filter cap, standby light off).
Anyone know where I can source old Philips' tv schematics, even just it's startup ...

"Something" is interfering with my cable modem and causing it to reboot.
All the wire to the telephone pole has been replaced. The modem has been
replaced. I had cable service here with no trouble. A month ago, 15
cable trucks descended upon my neighborhood, they said to "Clean ...

I have salvaged DC Motor (Copal) from and old floppy disc drive.
However I don't have any information on them.  It is an LC-177B.  
also need a control circuit for it. I am building an inductor winde
for guitar pickups.

Has anyone seen problems using common hardware store gloss enamel to
touch up a microwave oven interior?
Someone emailed me all in a huff that they followed this advise and it now
smells "funky" and smokes.  They said the paint color was white and they

Looking for a new / repro (very good repro) of the excitebike marquee..

I am looking for International capacitors info,
On the cap is written: Japan,  International, C.
They might be vintage
They came with a Fenter amp from the USA

I was sitting around thinking the other day. (I sometimes do this when
I have a few extra minutes), and it occurred to me that there is a
very powerful source of RF energy sitting in most of our kitchens. Our
microwave oven. Now theororetically speaking (of course), if the

No problem with my computer.  I just want to play.
Power Judge by PowMax:
http://www.amazon.com/Pin-ATX-Power-Supply-Tester/dp/B000CP4RRA
Or

I have this Sony KP46WT500,Projection  in the service mode with the remote,
I get to where I want, for example green lin or size, I have no response
with the adjustment. Any ideas.
               Thanks

I have an old Canon A70 that no longer works. I'd love to take the LCD
screen and repurpose it into some sort of mobile picture frame. The
LCD screen is a Sony AM309-3 A, and it's roughly 1-1.5". I've been
searching Google with no success... Has anybody done this before, or