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⌈ Secret Post #2575 ⌋

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[Sleepy Hollow]

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[Aneurin Barnard]

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[Trailer Park Boys]

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[Orphan Black]

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[Sherlock (BBC)]

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[Agents of SHIELD, Torchwood]

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[Saiyuki]

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[Blake's 7]

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[The L Word]

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I got cable TV service again a little under two weeks ago. A week later, the bulb in my very old used TV burned out. (I think I posted here griping about that.) So I got cable just in time to pay for it for a week that I couldn't really use it...

Today, the replacement bulb arrived via UPS, and although it had taken me all of about five minutes to open up the back and see how it all worked yesterday in anticipation of the arrival, and I figured all I'd need to do is slide the old cartridge out and slide the new one in...

HOUR AND A HALF LATER, I figured out why it wasn't working. Basically there were two problems. 1, the cartridge (being a knockoff) didn't fit in the slot as easily as the official lamp (which cost about $100 more, so NOPE). 2, the "captive thumbscrews" in the new cartridge were, unlike the captive thumbscrews in the old lamp, neither captive or thumbscrews, and also the holes they fit into were too large and they themselves were short.

I figured out #2 almost immediately, but didn't realize that #1 was also a factor until after about an hour and fifteen minutes, when I got frustrated and took the old cartridge and tried putting it back in to see if there was something I was missing, and realized it went about a centimeter further in than I'd managed to get the new cartridge in. So ten minutes of shoving and wiggling and pushing later, I finally got it in as far... and the screws STILL didn't fit and wouldn't go in.

TV turns on anyway, and an hour and a half of basically hanging upside down behind a huge TV with my head squashed against the wall trying to get a clear view of the interior made my head and stomach hate me, so I'm calling it a victory. But ugh, I was planning on going out to run errands afterwards but felt too awful.

(Now I'm starting to feel better, and debating going out vs. actually watching Sleepy Hollow, since I never have had the chance before, and stuff I've seen about it here makes me think I might like it.)

O.O I am just amazed you were able to fix your own TV. I would have been stumped.

Eh, it's not that big a deal - it's an ANCIENT television, but the owner kept the original manual, which had instructions in the back for switching out the lamp, and the same instructions were even etched on the back of the TV. This kind of TV apparently isn't exactly popular anymore because the bulbs burn out every few years (or months if you're unlucky), and then it costs like $150-250 to get a replacement from the manufacturer. Unless you cheap out and get the $30-50 generics from Amazon like me. XD

Either way, all it is is opening the back panel with a screwdriver, unscrewing a box that holds a light bulb and a filter, pulling it straight out, then putting a new box/light bulb/filter straight in, tightening screws (apparently optional, since I couldn't do it), and putting the panel back on. The only reason it was difficult in this case was because the cheap replacement didn't fit as well as the manufacturer's brand, and I didn't realize for awhile that the fit was as poor as it really was.

Well also it was difficult because it's a 60 inch TV on a narrow entertainment center up against a wall, and I had to get behind it. :P

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