I have been hustling to buy old TVs, salvaging, scrapping, wheeling & dealing, diagnosing, ordering parts, Frankenstein-ing & fixing
Tonight and this weekend is the culmination of months of work which will result in four saleable TVs for around $1,500. I pounded out two tonight, a 55-in 4k, and a 50-in Roku 4K. I work hard af, then there’s not a lot of meat on the bone… but it’s very rewarding as stressful as it can be to not necessarily know where your next fridge of food is coming from
Edit: When I say “pound out” I don’t want it to seem like I just magically made two TVs appear… Like I said this is months of hard work, scrapping and fixing to get to the point where they are working. Nothing is compatible with anything, and the amount of work a person has to put in can’t be appreciated by the consumer - People think you just buy a broken TV, slap a part in and then you’re done - yeah as if it’s that simple!
First of all, everybody thinks their broken piece of shit with a cracked screen is worth $10 less than retail… Because they paid that 2 years ago and I guess they don’t realize that TVs are at the point where they’re disposable like fucking socks.
Then, the right to repair movement would go fucking insane if there was an overall deeper understanding of how little is actually repairable. Every single inverter board, every single motherboard, every single panel, every single driver board, every single connector on every single machine, even if it’s the same manufacturer from the same year, is totally incompatible. Every connection is different, every pinout is randomly chosen, nothing works with anything. And it’s all arbitrary, done exclusively to fuck you out of the ability to repair them. Go buy another one on black Friday you dumbass, you bought a stupid piece of shit for El cheapo thinking you’re this savvy consumer… and it broke immediately because it’s engineered like dog shit… I guess you’re too dumb… go get another one Thank you for the money.
Survive our craz… interesting times one WE more. Enjoy quality time with my spouse. Pay a visit to my dentist, too :p
Plus reading, writing, studying. Like every single other day of the week, all year long.
Wear my other shoes through the upcoming rain, while I wait on car parts to come in and brainstorm how to bend some shit back in place to fit a new radiator.
Not my car, but it’s gonna be an interesting project. It won’t be happening this weekend though, I’m still brainstorming right now (and looking for a loaner ratchet strap)…
Meeting with a friend today then another friend tomorrow. I’ve also got to batch cook and clean up.
