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Click here to register now. How much do people make who repair electronics? Jun 23, Messages: I'm wondering if you can earn a decent living from repairing small electronics.

If so who would you work for? Would your work for a company such as sony? Fixing electronics are my favorite thing to do and I know a lot of the basics.

How can I learn to do this without college because I suck at book work and can't handle book work. Feb 14, Messages: The best thing is to go to an electronics shop and say you will work for free.

This way you cannot be refused. That's what one of my employees did. Because he had the right outlook in life. He is now a very successful CEO of his own company. Sometimes you can lose on a repair. Sometime you make money. That's the way it works. Nov 17, Messages: PIC programmer software, and PIC Tutorials at: Nigel GoodwinJun 27, Jan 12, Messages: DaveDec 11, Mar 27, Messages: Fun and games are over.

South African's have serious issues facing them. Instead of making jokes on OT to ease the worries I have chosen to do something about it.

I have a backbone. I just need to use it again. I have become slacker over the years Mar 28, Messages: I have a friend, huh! I call him a friend, anyway he is a DJ and I used to look after his equipment.

Glad I got out I now stick to new designs, MY designs I'd give my left arm to be ambidextrous Nigel's tutorials in asm Ian RogersJun 28, Mar 12, Messages: The real money was made back in the day.

When Tubes we're replaced and no one new what the electronics age was about. Repair people became salesmen and the time of "what's" new and "Hip" was a household word. Watch the moon landing and the Beatles, all those TV dinner's with the hole family gathering in their living rooms.

If it we'er back in the time of the Old Tube Radio it would have been the same. Unfortunately, we now have them in every room. The family has now distanced itself from one another, a common problem. Those day's are long gone. Big Box Business has taken over and we are subject to it's demands.

I'm a hobby thinker'er, I'm a bit slow. But, I hope to get their some day!!!!!!

Aug 11, Messages: I am not MD or professional in any trade, except Red Green. Feb 3, Messages: BrevorJun 30, Jul 24, Messages: Well, what I could say is that, I,m self employed and going on for twenty one year doing just about anything I could get my hands on.

From industrial, commercial, domestic down to automotive electronics. If it doesn,t fit, I will make it fit and work. I,m not saying it is easy, you really need to know your stuff. Oct 30, Messages: In my job, it wasn't full time and it was a University research setting. Many years ago there was "electronic PM" type work that had to be preformed on instruments and older computers pre IBM PC that were used to control experiments broke. Gauges and power supplies broke and we used a base of "spares" to keep the critical equipment running.

Pieces that we had a lot of, I learned to fix and I could do it quickly. Sorenson switching Power supplies and gauges would basically require recapping how to make money fixing electronics various minor problems. Computers were isolated to the module level and the module was sent for repair at a "fixed cost". I built and designed custom interfaces and automated measurement systems. I assembled "stand-alone" temperature controllers. I found easier way of doing things.

I designed safety shutdown systems. I even learned to fix an early "Scanning Electron Microscope" to the component level. The thing had lots of OP amps in it. I converted a microcomputer based card to operate stand-alone with a multi-channel analyizer. That crazy think kept blowing too and I called the manufacturer on it about the lack of "transient protection".

I learned to fix Mass Flow Controllers, because we had lots of them and they were easy. An upgrade to an 's X-ray diffraction set kept popping RS buy shares of iex, so I found a solution to that.

And then there was this thing CV-8 http: Plus W tube RF transmitters and kV 0. A lot of the stuff I did, tended to improve reliability and reduce operating costs, but it wasn't full time.

Paying for travel time or sending a piece of equipment out by truck to auto binary signals real review repaired wasn't tradestar stock price effective.

I don't think management realized what I really did. You can't see the effects of "equipment not breaking". Recently, nearly all the newer equipment was becoming very difficult to service on your own. There was no documentation and how to make money fixing electronics were non-existant.

KeepItSimpleStupidJul 1, Jul 23, Messages: Whatever you do to make money, try to make sure it is leveraged. You want to get paid over and over again for the same, single unit of time spent. Repairing electronics is not leveraged. RCinFLAJul 1, Mar 24, Messages: My comments are my own and don't represent the views of any company. In GOD we trust, all others we monitor.

Not even close, but it was still a FAB house. Just on a research scale. Mar 16, Messages: I went to the Sony head office in Canada for some parts. I noticed that everybody there was Japanese. I gave them a list of part numbers that were on the defective parts and on the schematic but they gave me completely different parts then they replaced them with the correct parts that they had in stock anyway.

I went to the Panasonic head office in Canada for a part for my wireless phone. Again, everybody there was Japanese. I worked at the Canadian head office for Philips. I am not Dutch. I worked at the Canadian head office of an American tele-conference bridge manufacturer and installed their bridges all over the USA.

I am not an American. I worked at the Canadian head office of a Japanese PRO Sound manufacturer. I am not Japanese. I didn't fix much because nearly nothing failed. But I was paid pretty well.

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The owner asked me why I wanted to enter a field that was "closing" down.

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He suggested that I could make twice the money by going to work in a semiconductor fab house. I would suggest thinking long term. Jan 15, Messages: Best paying job I ever had was as an electronics tech. On the other hand, it was working on VERY unforgiving industrial lasers powered by KV that had left one blind in one eye, given another a degenerative hip injury, chopped off a third's finger, and put a fourth guy on disability over a 25 year period.

He ended up with heart problems after being bit by 35KV a few times. Being on call sucked. I was careful enough to get by though. I was eventually "promoted" after I finished my degree.

I used to be self-employed as a contract technician too. Laser tuning and calibration chores at the local sensor manufacturer: Rework at the local contract manufacturing service: On-site connector hook-ups, assembly of furniture, and other odd jobs for a local retailer: Cleaning scales and troubleshooting lathes and end mills for a couple of machine shops: Repair and troubleshooting of personal computers: Wasn't it your 13 year old who put it in this state to begin with?

Look at the service life of what you intend to work on.

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You'd better be the one running the show because the people doing the work are considered one step above unskilled labor following a how-to document.

They'll pay well if you know your stuff and can troubleshoot and fix the out of the ordinary problems. I do well working on electronics but I'm now an engineer and I don't stop there. I also do mathematical modeling, programming, mechanical design, and am utterly unafraid to roll up my sleeves and do what most engineers have a technician for. I do as well but sitting in front of a computer gets old. Dec 28, Messages: Murfreesboro, TN USA. If you want to get into some FUN electronic repair that pays BIG MONEY go to college and learn to be a Biomed Technician.

Southern Illinois University at Carbondale Illinois has an excellent Biomed Technology Program. You must log in or sign up to reply here.

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