[Closed] Service Data: Donation

It's a sobering thought that when I first started collecting the youngest DAC90As were less than 25 years old and yet they seemed to be from another era...

The tip of the iceberg has started, the first 277 VCR service manuals have been uploaded, there are of course many more to come but for now I'm having a break from it. ?  

28 years (1971 - 1999), 850 manuals, 3.57GB of data of Sanyo/Fischer service data covering radio, cassette, boombox, CD player and Hifi, is currently uploading to the data library. Should be completed in 20 mins so at times like this I'm thankful for being on the end of a 80MBit down 35Mbit up fibre connection

Just bought a whole load more service data in the form of U-view Television & Video servicing. This further extends what I can offer to members via the "S.O.D. IT" service. I now have a complete run of books from, post war volumes thru to 1996. These latter books are much larger when compared to the earlier R&TS books. As time passes more folk will undoubtedly start to collect and repair these later models of TV and VCR's, that's assuming they survived the cull that happened with the advent of flat panels and DSO. 

Hi Chris I have quite a few of these CD-roms, sadly the Hitachi server for the ESTA disks is no more, so no further updates for either the database or for the program itself, IIRC you needed to update the program to run properly on W7 or later (may even have been XP SP3 or later), and a lot of the ESTA manuals/diagrams on the disk/s were in a propriety format with only some as pdfs, when the server was still available you could download the pdfs as well. Sadly I only discovered this after a hard drive failure a number of years ago and so lost  all the updates and pdfs I had and could no longer update as by then Hitachi had taken their server off-line and reverted to a dealer only intranet/network. ? 

I have some of the Aiwa, Sanyo, Tosh and JVC cds, as well as a couple of Grundig and Sharp ones too, not to mention a lot of Vestal, Panasonic, Philips and some Thomson and Sony stuff too, of course this all dates from the 90's onwards so I never thought you would have been that interested in this stuff.

Ps. I also have a couple of the 90's U-view books as well as a CD-rom from this series. You seem to have acquired duplicates of most what I still have left however ? 

Warm regards and thanks to Frank who kindly sent me by way of donation, a Thorn TX90 service manual which arrived yesterday. Being a Thorn "Fan-boy" I was absolutely delighted ? 

The Thorn section of the library is pretty comprehensive now. This will be scanned within the next few days and uploaded. Now I need to find myself a nice little 20E1. ? 

I have some U VIEW books here if anyone wants them, Malc.

Hi Malc, I could be interested in what you have. Could you elaborate on what years are available? Are there any blue books (video) as I only have the one at present ? 

@crustytv

Hi Chris, i will take a look and report back. These books are as good as new, Malc.

Hi Chris, a quick look in my central stores show there is Video servicing 91-92 (2 books)  93-94 (3 books)      CTV Servicing 87-88, 93-34, 95-96, + File index book. All of these books look unused, Malc.

Hi Malc,

If possible I would like to nab everything except CTV 87-88 as I already bought that .....DOH!

Ultimately everyone benefits as I can scan whatever is needed by anyone, whenever required. ? 

Call and collect, i will dig them out for you now, Malc.

Be over in an hour, about 12:00 is that OK?

No prob.

Thanks to Malc and what I bought yesterday, I can now offer Video service data through to 1994 and R&TS/U-view TV data through to 1996. I've also got the Video index folder which makes finding things a tad quicker. ?