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Curt Palme
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Location: Langley, BC
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| ecrabb wrote: | | Curt Palme wrote: | | Again OT, I parted out a Barco 708 today, one of the 25 I got a couple of months ago. It set a new record for Barco longevity...59,700 hours. Not quite the 68,000 hours that a MArquee had run that I got in last year, but pretty close. |
OK, I have to laugh at this one, Curt. You're calling 59,700 "pretty close" to 68,000. That's an 8,300-hour difference, and it's "pretty close". Heh heh... That's nearly a YEAR of 24/7 operation. What's funny about that? I wonder how many digital projectors last the 8,300 hours - never mind the 60,000. 
SC |
It reminds me of a comment I heard at a restaurant the other day, two adults were talking about parent/teacher interviews.
The one parent was complaining about how the teacher told him that they didn't care as much about the right answer as they did that the children got the concept.
THe adult apparently fired back: How about you go to the doctor to get a splint for your finger, but instead he amputated it? Close enough, right? 
I didn't mention that other than toasted tubes, the set worked fine.
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kal
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| Curt Palme wrote: | Should I post a pix of my shop or storage or parts area for schmoe to show his wife, and say:
"SEE, I'M NOT THAT BAD!' 
(pix of my place have saved a couple of marriages from what I understand..) |
No, not pictuires of your shop or storage areas... pictures of your hallways, living room, kitchen, etc! 
Kal
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Heywood Jablome
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| kal wrote: | | Curt Palme wrote: | Should I post a pix of my shop or storage or parts area for schmoe to show his wife, and say:
"SEE, I'M NOT THAT BAD!'
(pix of my place have saved a couple of marriages from what I understand..) |
No, not pictuires of your shop or storage areas... pictures of your hallways, living room, kitchen, etc!
Kal |
Storage container, dog house, wood shed, driveway under the tarp...
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Nashou66
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| kal wrote: | | Curt Palme wrote: | Should I post a pix of my shop or storage or parts area for schmoe to show his wife, and say:
"SEE, I'M NOT THAT BAD!'
(pix of my place have saved a couple of marriages from what I understand..) |
No, not pictuires of your shop or storage areas... pictures of your hallways, living room, kitchen, etc!
Kal |
I think Sparky cleaned all that up . Right Curt?
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Curt Palme
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Just the kitchen. So far.
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drice1234
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| Quote: | Just the kitchen. So far.
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Thats the one place you would expect to find toasted tubes
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Heywood Jablome
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| drice1234 wrote: | | Quote: | Just the kitchen. So far.
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Thats the one place you would expect to find toasted tubes |
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Curt Palme
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Not really Heywood. If you had a picture of an 80 year old with saggy aggies, hanging into the frypan, now THAT would be toasted tubes!
The ones above... I'd just call those......ripe! 
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Nashou66
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AnalogRocks
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For her, I would put some wear on my tube.
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Graham Johnson
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I am happy to be a part of the site. I still get many referals for Setup and repair work via PM.
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Spanky Ham
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I think some of you have it a little wrong here. NEC used to regularly give out Doug's number whenever someone called about CRTs. While it is great that Nec is refering to Curt, it may indicate that Doug is out of the game either voluntarily or otherwise.
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CasetheCorvetteman
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| Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2009 5:36 am Post subject: Re: Gotta love emails that start like this: |
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| Curt Palme wrote: | I was given your web site by NEC. We have a Nec XG-1101 crt projector we suspect the red tube is gone...
Thanks NEC! |
Yep, i was also steered to you by alot of people, although i dont remember where i asked. As ive told you in emails, if everyone i had to deal with was as great with providing service as you are, everything would be simple!!
Thanks Curt
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AnalogRocks
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| CasetheCorvetteman wrote: | | Curt Palme wrote: | I was given your web site by NEC. We have a Nec XG-1101 crt projector we suspect the red tube is gone...
Thanks NEC! |
Yep, i was also steered to you by alot of people, although i dont remember where i asked. As ive told you in emails, if everyone i had to deal with was as great with providing service as you are, everything would be simple!!
Thanks Curt |
This whole dam forum is great at providing service ( pat's self on back )
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| AnalogRocks wrote: | | CasetheCorvetteman wrote: | | Curt Palme wrote: | I was given your web site by NEC. We have a Nec XG-1101 crt projector we suspect the red tube is gone...
Thanks NEC! |
Yep, i was also steered to you by alot of people, although i dont remember where i asked. As ive told you in emails, if everyone i had to deal with was as great with providing service as you are, everything would be simple!!
Thanks Curt |
This whole dam forum is great at providing service ( pat's self on back ) |
Yes, I feel as though I'm being "serviced" every time I visit this site.
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schmoe
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TMI
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Curt Palme
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| Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2009 2:53 pm Post subject: Re: Gotta love emails that start like this: |
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Yes, I feel as though I'm being "serviced" every time I visit this site. |
That's it! I'm signing you up for a 'platinum 'member' club'.
Fork over dough, we give you happy ending!
or, are you feeling 'f**ked over every time you visit? 
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CasetheCorvetteman
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| Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2009 11:30 pm Post subject: Re: Gotta love emails that start like this: |
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| AnalogRocks wrote: | | CasetheCorvetteman wrote: | | Curt Palme wrote: | I was given your web site by NEC. We have a Nec XG-1101 crt projector we suspect the red tube is gone...
Thanks NEC! |
Yep, i was also steered to you by alot of people, although i dont remember where i asked. As ive told you in emails, if everyone i had to deal with was as great with providing service as you are, everything would be simple!!
Thanks Curt |
This whole dam forum is great at providing service ( pat's self on back ) |
Tis true.
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schmoe
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I never would have had the courage to dabble with crt if it wasn't for this site. Thanks to all for the invaluable help!
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mistagreg
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I have sent several of those emails to Curt!
-Greg
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