My first TV repair shop in photographs from 1985.

Thank for Trip down memory lane Michael

thankyou for sharing and nice to see a trip down memory lane please keep the videos coming

Great memories for you Micheal ! Enjoyed 😊

Interesting times! Thanks for the upload.

Old photos aside... that's a "ferocious" wall of component drawers you've got there!

Great. Loved the tri cleaner. Still have 2 cans left. Only smell it on birthdays!

You are among the richest people in the world, as you have been able to do what you like most all your life long! I wish I could work in electronics!

What a class shop you had, in many ways similar to the one I spent my youth in (although yours is much neater!) Thanks for sharing Micheal 👍

Totally agree with previous comments, great memories, I remember doing all of them. Wow. Thanks michael. A trip down memory lane.👍

Wow that was a blast from the past brings back memories when i was a tv engineer in the 70s and 80s I was into grundig 5010 and philips g8 g11 back then now retired in the land of the smiles

Exactly the sort of place I used to visit when I became a TLO for JVC in 1988. I miss those those days.

Excellent

Like you I cannot bear to throw away any of my old test equipment even when it has been superseded by newer and better gear. I still have my first multimeter, a Heathkit MM-1U (poor man's AVO!) and a transistor tester I made when I was 18 (in the early 60s).

One of the most popular (early) TV was the 9" Bush. Dad was a TV Repair Technician, so we always had a working TV. Back in '62, I remember the very first TV Ad was for "STAG" Cooking Salt. Another early TV was the first Projection TV by Phillips. I was the 'mug' that removed the TV Chassis (at age 13 years), to 'blow down' the TV with the blow-end of a Cylinder Vacuum Cleaner. I used to polish these special concave mirrors of the Phillips Projection TVs with the finest Egyptian Cotton. I think (from memory) that the Projection CRT was only about 4" square. How times have changed! In today's throw-away world, not many persons would reach the heights of your success in repairing almost anything electrical. I am always fascinated by the complexities of PCBs and their functions. You are a rarity, a real wizard.

Wow..That wall of parts drawers ! 👌

Thank you some great memories there remember all those TVs and some great prices on your sets think i've still got a adaptor board for the fidelity 2000 lopt to fit a 3000 memories great days🙂

Although I never got chance to pop in, I remember the shop well. I used to work as a signalling fault technician for British Rail but repaired TVs and pretty much anything else as a hobby. Our patch covered Buxton so I would pass regularly down the hill from Fairfield. The thing that stood out the most was the TV on the little bit of flat roof, I don't know of any other TV shop that had anything like that

You mentioned 'trichloroethylene' as a switch cleaner, but also a solvent for 'liquid paper' correction fluid. The standard solvent for dry cleaners is 'perchloroethylene', which has one less chlorine atom in its molecule. They are both very effective for their purpose, but vapours as well as skin contact is toxic. The next solvent with much less toxicity is iso-propyl alcohol, and combined with aliphatic hydrocarbons, used today...

Thanks so much for sharing these images, they remind me so much of my first TV shop which I opened in 1986 with the help of Maggie's government's "Enterprise Allowance Scheme". Philips G8s, Bush 2-chips & ITT CVC30s were the order of the day, along with Sony C7 & Sanyo VTC5000 Betamaxes. Occasionally I'd get a hold of ex-rental Ferguson 3V23 VHS macines with those notorious rollers that never seemed able to push out a greasy old cassette! I preferred repairing videos, they didn't have the same urgency as TV's. Happy days.

Antex soldering iron at 03:45 gave me a smile. I'm still using Antex and have an old 25W the red handled one, though I also have an 18W and 25W versions with new yellow handles.