"Nick Gorham" wrote in message
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I can't help but smile at this, one of the strongest memories I had as a
kid was the TV repair man coming to fix the ailing set, and he always
reminded me of a doctor, with a large leather case full of exotic secret
things. The family would await the result of a few minutes delving into
the back of the box with trepidation, hoping the problem would not mean
"it needs to go back to the shop".


I missed that, as my Dad (a radio engineer with the GPO) fixed our pre-war
Murphy A56V, and my grandmother's Pye V4, himself. The Pye I still have, the
Murphy, unfortunately, was scrapped sometime around 1960 (though I still
have the service manual)

And Pratical Television at about that time had a wonderfull (or so it
seemed) regular spot about a repair man and his young apprentice, each
month solving some electrical problem, and imparting a bit more theory.
Sort of a electronic "Mr Crabtree".

When was that?, I have most issues of PT from about 1964 onwards (and some
from 1959 on) and I don't recognise that. OTOH "Radio Constructor" magazine
had an occasional spot for "Smithy" the serviceman and "Dick", his
apprentice in the mid to late 1950s.

David.