Got a repair tip from a retired TV guy that totally backfired on me

An old timer at the shop told me to always replace the flyback transformer on any CRT that shows a dark picture, so I ordered a $35 part for a customer's Sony Trinitron last week. Turns out the problem was just a bad solder joint on the horizontal deflection coil, and I wasted 2 hours pulling the whole chassis apart for nothing. Has anyone else gotten bad advice from someone who "fixed these for 30 years" that steered you the wrong way?

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perez.mia13d agoTop Commenter

so you think a guy with decades of hands on experience doesn't know what he's talking about