scart leads

[rich.]

our telly is only 5 years old & the scart connections in the back are loose, has anyone any ideas apart from a new tv? ive changed the leads etc but im coming to the end of my tether

[Aar0sc]

As in the actual plug in the back of the tv?
If it's still there but loose I'd plug in the scart lead and them have a clip/cable-tie/gaffer tape holding the cable's weight.

[M Paul Lloyd]

I have noticed that they seem to be manufactured to a rather 'open' tolerance and end up either a bid of a floppy fit or tighter than a rounded sump plug.

If it aint broke don't fix it.

[rich.]

i think its the connection on the back of the tv..

[JPB]

I had a neighbour's much-loved (she has a name for the thing FFS! )11 year old Toshiba 28" pro-logic set, all 50Kg of it, brought around to my house last December with loose connections on one of its scarts, it had to be the one that's RGB compatible too, and my suggestion to the owner that she should change it and switch the input device to CVBS didn't go down too well.


Longer story marginally less long: Wretched edge-mounted joints at the back of the socket were causing that to flap about so I remade every bloody one (and didn't my poor fingers know it) with braid then used some epoxy to glue the socket to the bared edge of the board where the socket's connections used to be. Works well now, no picture noise as is usually the case with a failing scart socket and my neighbour won't have to p*ss £300 up the wall on an LCD set to "replace" her beloved.

[rich.]

how do you fancy a holiday, bring your own soldering iron...

[JPB]

Rich, honestly, it's a piece of cake to do, fiddly and tiring on the fingertips but no harder than, say, changing seven UK mains plugs in quick succession!

Having a TV repairer out to do this for you should cost no more than an Hour's labour if you don't fancy giving it a go.
I'd come to France with my soldering irons, sure they'd enjoy the break. *visits Eurostar site to check train times....*