ColorcodedResistor

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Cake day: July 10th, 2023

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  • As someone who used to run a louis rossman electronics repair business for a couple years before i burned out.

    LG G5 was and still is my point to for perfectly fixable devices.

    Motorola is trash because you have to dismantle the phone from the back layer by layer just to reach the front screen.

    HTC was even worse with two tier motherboards and octopuss ribbon cables were a nightmare to navigate.

    iPhone was/ is possibly the easiest fucking phone to fix, ironically…however by the iphone 8 and onwards apple found increasingly shitty ways to make 3rd party repairs nearly impossible.

    windows phones, nokia, and others were hit or miss. tablets were long winded affairs but generally easy due to their inherent size.

    ive been out of the game since 2019 when covid dropped. id really like to hear the inside baseball on any current operators running repair business.

    i used Repair Shopr software to manage my customers. idk if thats still the go to or if another has bested it.









  • I’ve had this same issue working as an independent electronic repair business. Literally no one in all of america sells 90% of the tools, parts or hardware needed. i have to constantly rail Amazon, Alibaba, eBay, Etsy…

    thank the gods for Klein tools still showing up every once in awhile with what i need.

    Radio Shack was a joke. it lacked the depth and scope required to supply the parts needed. it died because they tried to do cell phones and market Steel, vs Gold, vs Nickel plated parts which didn’t mean anything to anyone for almost anything except the one off chance that someone actually requires the benefits of those differing materials.

    my wish is that someone comes through and makes a Home Depot equivalent for electronic parts. but the scope of that fantasy is near impossible. My understanding of logistics and operations knows America won’t see anything like Japanese parts stores for a very very long time. if ever again.

    electronics is getting to be like hunting down parts for rare classic cars, you have to slough through hundreds of websites, find swap meets, check and check again for items out of stock to be in. or find that one person who chose today to sell you that one off capacitor or transistor.

    i hate how seemingly gate kept electronics is. its not, but damn its hard to get the things you need