Re: Bodges
I remember back in the early 70s an old EKCO coming into the workshop for repair, looking at the chassis there was the largest Christmas tree dropper I have ever seen not only every section was o/c but had been linked out with RS dropper sections when a couple of these had failed these had been linked with 3 5 watt resistors in parallel and a couple of 7 watts in parallel.
9 resistors in total.
The ironical thing was at the time a replacement dropper was available and was replaced,along with several capacitors and rectifier Valve.never saw the customer again until years later he came and purchased a TV from us and said that because the radio was still working fine after years of problems he had decided to give us his custom, Ironic that that bodge finished up gaining us a returning customer.
John
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