Steve Hill TV and Audio Services

Steve Hill TV and Audio Services Aerial and Satellite installations, Television & Hi-Fi repairs and set ups. www.stevehilltelevisionservices.co.uk
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Out in the countryside installing Freesat today…between the showers! A nice comfortable bungalow this time, unlike last ...
21/10/2025

Out in the countryside installing Freesat today…between the showers! A nice comfortable bungalow this time, unlike last week’s acrobatics on a high roofing ladder 😧

I certainly end up in some interesting places...someone's basement on this occasion!
16/10/2025

I certainly end up in some interesting places...someone's basement on this occasion!

Completing the repair on the Panasonic AG4700 today. The sleeve for the loading motor took two days to arrive from Holla...
15/10/2025

Completing the repair on the Panasonic AG4700 today. The sleeve for the loading motor took two days to arrive from Holland. Once fitted I found loads of hardened grease throughout the mechanism, all this had to be removed and fresh grease applied. After a few minutes of running the loading arms up and down on an external power supply I deemed the mechanism ready to be reinstalled. The tape path was also a bit grubby so I cleaned the heads and guides with some isopropyl alcohol. First attempt at playing a tape and it worked perfectly, a bit of a result considering this machine had been stored away in a box for several years.

Not my favourite kind of job! The dish was on a pole at the back of the building but was looking into a steep bank and s...
15/10/2025

Not my favourite kind of job! The dish was on a pole at the back of the building but was looking into a steep bank and some trees, it couldn't go any higher where it was so it had to be moved to the location in the photo, sounds simple enough but I ended up hanging upside down off my roofing ladder and drilling holes one handed, not a pleasant experience!

Next up this afternoon is what would have been a high end and very expensive Panasonic VCR, a model I’ve never seen befo...
08/10/2025

Next up this afternoon is what would have been a high end and very expensive Panasonic VCR, a model I’ve never seen before but I certainly recognise the mechanism it uses. Coupling the shaft of the loading motor to the worm gear in the picture is a plastic sleeve which splits and no longer has a tight fit to the motor spindle, this means it can’t transfer the torque of the motor to the loading mechanism. A fiddly but simple repair, a new coupling sleeve is on its was from Holland, and would you believe I used to have a drawer full of them…but that was probably 20 years ago and at some point they were thrown out!
It’s now been put to one side until the part arrives

Well that’s the VZ3000 up together and working well, what a mission it was, it’s never easy putting someone else’s work ...
08/10/2025

Well that’s the VZ3000 up together and working well, what a mission it was, it’s never easy putting someone else’s work right but after a thorough clean of the phono control and preamp board, replacement of the phono relay and the side A cartridge / stylus, plus a service on the tape deck all is working as it should.

06/10/2025

Can’t beat a bit of Black Sabbath on a Monday morning 🤘

Tidying up some speaker leads this morning, someone hadn’t done a great job of soldering these ends together!
06/10/2025

Tidying up some speaker leads this morning, someone hadn’t done a great job of soldering these ends together!

Well this one worked out quite well in the end, I warned the customer that the damaged light guide would have a negative...
01/10/2025

Well this one worked out quite well in the end, I warned the customer that the damaged light guide would have a negative effect on the picture but he asked me to go ahead anyway. In the end I was pleasantly surprised, the only effect seen on the screen is a small patch of light (where it says phone lines in the picture) and this is invisible on most scenes anyway. Removing and refitting a 55” screen was very stressful as they’re so easily damaged, not sure I’d want to do anything bigger! Anyway, its owner was happy to save himself a load of money over the price of a new tv!

The flagship of Panasonic's DVD / VCR combos, this one also has a hard drive, very nice units that are getting rare and ...
26/09/2025

The flagship of Panasonic's DVD / VCR combos, this one also has a hard drive, very nice units that are getting rare and very sought after now...and the advice of a (local) aerial rigger? "Put a hammer through it mate"!!
Luckily the owner didn't listen and went to Minehead Radio for advice, they put him on to me and now he has a working machine back in his home. It looked bad when it arrived with me, the display was saying there was a hard drive error, the cd drawer was permanently open and the vhs had a tape stuck, in this state nothing would function but a couple of hours and a few components later it was perfect.

I've got this 55" Samsung on the bench, the fault is obvious from the first photo, the screen is bottom lit, there are t...
25/09/2025

I've got this 55" Samsung on the bench, the fault is obvious from the first photo, the screen is bottom lit, there are two led strips and the one on the left has failed. It seems a simple matter of replacing the failed led strip, or both, which is what I would always do, but before these strips fail they can melt the bottom edge of the light guide sheet, the other photos show the right hand side of the light guide, the bottom edge looks perfect but the one showing the left hand side shows some damage where the leds have melted the edge of the sheet. This means that once repaired the left hand side of the picture will be less than perfect and it's probably not going to be worth doing. On the other hand I've seen a few where the light guide is unaffected and some where the damage is much worse with a distorted and cracked light guide.

This is an old Bush radio, not sure of it's age but probably sixty or more years old, there was barely a peep coming out...
25/09/2025

This is an old Bush radio, not sure of it's age but probably sixty or more years old, there was barely a peep coming out of it, not even static, and it was being caused by badly tarnished contacts on the waveband switch, they cleaned up nicely and although it's a bit limited for what it can receive these days, it sounds great.

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