Doblo owner Courtesy of "Fido"

[murphyv310]

Hi.
Well its time for some intro's! I am a vintage radio & TV collector, and am on another forum to do with that.
Recently I was made redundant, from a company that repaires and services industrial pressure washers, before that I was a TV engineer from the time I left school. The last five years have been very hard with more problems than you would believe, not only that, I now have debts that simply cant be paid off due to being out of work.
Anyway I was running an Audi 80 Avant '94 model although only 70,000 miles a good few things were looming up to be done including tax, I simply couldn't afford to fix it and tax it too so it was heading for a Sorn.
Fido, seeing my plight (He is on the other forum too) offered me his Doblo to make some money on or keep, I drove up for it last Saturday and brought it down, I drove it back and OK there are/were some faults but I really liked it, a very practical vehicle to boot. So I decided to sell the Audi and have some cash to fix it. mot it & tax it. So that is what happened, I sold the Audi on E-bay within 20 minutes and have now got the Doblo Mot'd Taxed and is now in use.
I am aware that it has quite a bit of bad history with faults etc but myself like Fido will do the necessary work.
So I want to say to Fido through the medium of this forum thanks very much yet again for the Doblo.

 

[dave]

welcome to the forum a free doblo is good you can be a taxi driver now and get your depts paid off

 

[T14086]

Fido from the classic bike forums?

Good luck with the doblo

 

[murphyv310]

Fido from the classic bike forums?

Fido from this forum, I believe he is a bike man too as he is Fidobsa on the Vintage radio forum!

 

[T14086]

Thats the chap

I take it there is not much call for TV/audio repairs these days in this throw away society?

 

[murphyv310]

Hi
Indeed the TV trade as I knew it is to be honest finished, it was a great trade in it's day, but late in the 90's we could see the writing was on the wall, by the mid 2000's so many independant's were closing, myself included. I started repairing industral cleaning equipment (pressure washers, floor scrubbers etc) with a friend that had his own company, but landed with heart trouble in 2007 which took nearly a year and a half to get the medication correct.
I went back doing 4 days then moved back to 5 days this March, but due to the Recession was made redundant in July.

 

[dave]

lots of people need stuff like this https://www.fiatforum.com/punto-guides/101234-punto-mk2-blue-dash-lights.html

if you are good with a Soldering iron there may be a business opportunity there

 

[T14086]

Hi
Indeed the TV trade as I knew it is to be honest finished, it was a great trade in it's day, but late in the 90's we could see the writing was on the wall, by the mid 2000's so many independant's were closing, myself included.

I done a diploma in TV stuff but by time I finished it was apparent it was becoming cheaper to buy new units as the spares were becoming hard to obtain or extremely expensive especially for the big name makes. There was (is?) a place in Bentinck street that still does it from memory.

 

[dave]

I done a diploma in TV stuff but by time I finished it was apparent it was becoming cheaper to buy new units as the spares were becoming hard to obtain or extremely expensive especially for the big name makes. There was (is?) a place in Bentinck street that still does it from memory.

all valves then wasn't it?

 

[T14086]

my guitar amp uses valves...wouldn't have anything else

 

[dave]

my guitar amp uses valves...wouldn't have anything else

do you get a good picture on it?

 

[murphyv310]

There was (is?) a place in Bentinck street that still does it from memory.

You wouldn't be talking about Kilmarnock would you? As my place was there! Shut though in 2005.
My old collection of Radio's & TV's date from the early 30's to 1969, All valve except one transistor set and they all work! The TV's are fed from a 405 line standards converter that gets its signal from a freeview box!

 

[T14086]

do you get a good picture on it?

You wouldn't be talking about Kilmarnock would you? As my place was there! Shut though in 2005.

I have been to smilie & cuthbertson engineers many times to get work done, I believe from memory there was a repair place opposite in the industrial units.

 

[murphyv310]

Yes That's the place, although it is in Bentink Street the Postal address was Unit 2 James Little Street, I was a partner between 2000-2005 and then worked from home for a little while.

 

[T14086]

I get around (probably how I caught that disease )

Quite a few doblos in that area.