Update....SUCCESS
Six Months of intensive training for a guy we employed here.
I said to the owner then that I need help and someone working next to me that I can teach. Someone that has the
basic skills like soldering neatly and not making a mess.....Someone that
wants to learn all about CRT repair and is genuinely interested.
So he found a 28 year old local who had done some hit and miss TV repairs on his own and employed him on a temporary basis to see how things go..
Remember: even the very basics like Resistor color codes are not known to the kind of individual employed......
First Week.....he without any training from me yet managed to fix a few sets on his own while I watched and analyzed him. Simply sat next to him and watched the way he did things.
Second Week.....Gently I started saying for example: "Why did you do that?". So he explained why......
And that is where I started training him to think differently to anything and everything he had taught himself or had been shown before.
I made a deal with him. I said I was prepared to share 25 Years of CRT repair experience with him and not hold
anything back provided he writes all I teach him down and asks questions if he is not quite sure about what he has just been taught...
And so he has picked up speed. Slowly at first but then it got quicker and quicker.
Still no Resistor color codes yet....obviously no scope knowledge about waveforms and any idea about how a TV really works...but yes..he is progressing nicely and at this stage I reckon I have done well with what I started out with.
He is not so much "monkey see, monkey do" anymore. He has gone way beyond that and I feel kinda proud that I was part of the journey and at last found a local who I can share my CRT stuff with. I have been blessed
Love you ETO,
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