CurtPalme.com Home Theater Forum

[grae]

But it's broke. Heh.

Working as an installer can get you some pretty good deals from time to time. One of our old clients had a washing machine above the projector go bad. Water seeped through the floor and needless to say, fried the G90.

Originally we were supposed to take it to the dump. There was no way in hell I was going to do that, so I happily took it off his hands.

After removing the casing and inspecting it. It looks like a goner to me. In terms of me fixing it, that is. There's some hardware removed above the input boards and the tubes have a large black streak going down the center of the face, which I'm assuming is some type of spot burn.

Aside from the covers, lenses, and c-elements, is there anything else that I could possibly sell from this projector? I know spare parts for the G90 are highly sought after, but I'm not so sure what can be salvaged, and my knowledge of circuitry and electronics is next to nothing.

I'll throw up some pics soon when I get the time just for shits and giggles.

[kal]

Sell a bunch of the boards "as is" and untested with full disclaimer and pictures of them and where they came from. You'd be surprised what you'd get. I bet you could sell just about everything in that unit.

You may be able to sell the whole unit "as is" as well to someone who wants a parts machine whole.

Kal

[kal]

Sell a bunch of the boards "as is" and untested with full disclaimer and pictures of them and where they came from. You'd be surprised what you'd get. I bet you could sell just about everything in that unit.

You may be able to sell the whole unit "as is" as well to someone who wants a parts machine whole.

Kal

[Clarence]

Sweet!

Don't throw anything out. And don't part it out prematurely. I know Curt has been looking for a G90 mule... even the spot burn wouldn't bother him. I bet he could track down every scorch mark.

If you don't feel like messing with building a crate, PM Curt with a fair offer and I'll volunteer to ship it to him from my office's loading dock.

[Curt Palme]

I would be REALLY interested in the unit as a whole. I don't want to repair it to sell it, I only want it to test other boards in. I can repair the set so that it runs, but you're right, with H fail burn marks on all tubes, it's not worth it.

Email me and we can haggle. I'm sure I'd give you more than selling watered down boards out of the set..

[Curt Palme]

I would be REALLY interested in the unit as a whole. I don't want to repair it to sell it, I only want it to test other boards in. I can repair the set so that it runs, but you're right, with H fail burn marks on all tubes, it's not worth it.

Email me and we can haggle. I'm sure I'd give you more than selling watered down boards out of the set..

[CZ Eddie]

I'd say to blowdry all of the electronics, then wait a week and power it up.

But the spot burn is a definate killer.

[grae]

Oh, it's definetely dry by now. It's been sitting in the garage for probably a year or over now since it was taken down.

From what I was told it was taken to a Sony service center and they said that it was repairable, but the owner opted out of getting it fixed and under warranty got a Qualia projector instead.

I'll get those pictures up tomorrow most likely, and Curt I'll contact you shortly. I'd much rather place the projector in your hands knowing how much you've done for the crt community, but again I would like to make a bit of profit on it...

Right now, I must sleep. Hanging 100 lb TV's on 12' high vaulted ceilings and hauling that beast of a projector around all day can wipe anyone out.

[JustGreg]

Methinks if it was powered up whilst wet...it's a goner. I deal with cell phones every day that take a bath in one fasion or another and the blow dryer only works for hair.
When it comes to minute avenues we'll call them, from the component leads into the component core...a blow dryer just won't cut it. Not in a timely manner anyway. If it were left powered off, covers off, in a room with a dehumidfier for a month MAYBE it would survive.

One weird little trick I use (I didn't invent it...love to say I did but I didn't) for wet phones that the owner hasn't tried to "make work" is to open it up, seperate all the boards, and put the parts 'n pieces in a bowl of uncooked rice and oatmeal with a loose fitting lid. The rice and oatmeal are moisture junkies and will suck it out of the boards pretty fast.
If the customer doesn't just say f*ck it and buy another phone instead of giving me a chance to try this for a night or two (I offer loaner phones), about 80% of the time I can resurrect the unit and return it to them with full functionality. It also saves them from getting into a new 24 month contract if they just go ahead and buy a new one. What I do pisses off Sprint...but I have a legion of customers who wouldn't let anyone but me touch their phones.

Too bad about the 90 tho. One less higher end pj that somebody could have kept in the "system".

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[Curt Palme]

And then you leave a grain of rice in it, and tell the customer that you found maggots in the phone..LOL!

Grae, no question you need to make money off the unit, I completely understand. Think of your sale to me of benefit to all other g90 owners that I hope to save from getting raped by Sony..;D

[Curt Palme]

And then you leave a grain of rice in it, and tell the customer that you found maggots in the phone..LOL!

Grae, no question you need to make money off the unit, I completely understand. Think of your sale to me of benefit to all other g90 owners that I hope to save from getting raped by Sony..;D

[JustGreg]

[AnalogRocks]

I dropped my Motorola brick phone in the mud and water once. Took it home and washed it out in the sink. Hung it up with a clothes pin by the antenna to dry for a week or so ( my apartment is always at least 85 deg ) and threw the battery on and used it for antoher 10 years.

Finaly a G90 test machine. Things are looking up.

[AnalogRocks]

I dropped my Motorola brick phone in the mud and water once. Took it home and washed it out in the sink. Hung it up with a clothes pin by the antenna to dry for a week or so ( my apartment is always at least 85 deg ) and threw the battery on and used it for antoher 10 years.

Finaly a G90 test machine. Things are looking up.

[jask]

my old Nokia 6xxx phone was written off by the service center for liquid damage and sent back, I threw it in the trunk of the car-it was summer,low 90's and forgot it for a week.... after being forgotten in the car I pulled it out and was going to save the battery gave it one last push and it fired right up!!!
I will try the rice idea next time

[Tinman]

A food dehydrator at 140 degrees works wonders to dry out electronics.

You can bake old reel to reel tapes in it too. (Read up on tape baking.)

Marc

[Phil Smith]

[ecrabb]

Think about that one for a sec, though. If you gotta get raped, better to get raped by the little guy than the big guy.

SC

[madpoet]

I've seen pics of Curt. Are you sure you want to call him little?

[oliverg]

Don't laugh, but one of my clients dropped his laptop in a spa (jacuzi) (while on).

I honestly thought it would be a gonner - but my father (who's an engineer since valves were the thing) suggested something I never would have tried in a million years.

I took all the components out, seperated them - and put them in an oven at 50C (to all those in Australia, yeah - I put it outside on the veranda on a cold winter's day!) for 10 minutes - then took them out, cooled them - put them back and so forth.

With the exception of it needing a new LCD panel, it worked perfectly! I got a lot of kudos from that client.

The oven trick also works with hard discs that have IDL (intermittent drive lock), when the lubricants start to go viscos and the unit starts failing (spel?), heat the drive up in an oven, then copy all the data off quick smart. Not sure if it would work with the more modern drives, but back in the days of MFM, RLL and stepping motors, it worked well.

[Brian Hampton]

I'll pay to have it shipped to me and I'll fix it.

(But I guess that's not likely something you're interested in, eh?)

I would love to get a g90 that needed all three tubes for cheap. Even though the tube costs are so high.


-Brian

[ecrabb]

I've warmed boards in the oven to dry them before, but I never thought of heating a drive mechanism to thin the lubricant. Great idea.

I have used the "whack it on the corner with a screwdriver at power-up" trick a whole lot of times. Recovered a lot of data for grateful customers that way. Remember the old Quantum "stiction" issue? LOTS of Macs with those drives failing in them for a few years.

Can't wait to see the G90 pics. Almost makes me sick to think of a G90 with water running out of it. That reminds me... I need to get the theater and equipment on my insurance policy!

SC

[JustGreg]

[oliverg]