[sdiy] My frustration as a technician..

[gordonjcp at gjcp.net]

On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 04:42:53PM +0100, rob hukin wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> My impression is that a lot of manufacturers only see their product at the board level - they simply never have the components themselves, even if they would be willing to distribute them...
> 

Motorola are a bit like that, for radios.  You can get housings and odd bits and pieces like volume controls and channel selectors but that's *it* - the rest goes back to the factory.

The Chinese manufacturers are only happy to give out full circuit diagrams with proper diagnosis charts and board layouts, much like the old Kenwood and Motorola manuals of the 1980s.

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