"Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing." (granfury)
10/04/2015 at 20:42 • Filed to: None
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"Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing." (granfury)
10/04/2015 at 20:42 • Filed to: None | 0
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I’m finally getting around to disassembling this fine piece of German engineering in an effort to free up a little extra space in my living room. $7,500 and 55” worth of HD beauty is now scrap due to high parts costs and technological progress; last year the color wheel shattered leaving this thing semi-functional but only in B&W - no thanks.
I’ve started the gutting process, removing most of the optics and audio parts, but I can’t quite figure out how to break it down further. I’m not sure how much of the original 176 lbs have been removed, but probably not enough to make this an easy carry out to the dumpster. Probably the heaviest part would be the glass on the front. I’ve looked at the service manuals and they really don’t say, for obvious reasons, how to completely deconstruct this machine.
So, does anyone have experience taking these things apart? Any suggestions on how to break it down further?
CB
> Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
10/04/2015 at 20:45 |
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If you don’t need it working, may I suggest the Peter Gabriel Method?
Birddog
> Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
10/04/2015 at 20:50 |
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Sorry for your loss.
I have a nice but ancient Plasma in storage that might be in for the same fate.
Sam
> Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
10/04/2015 at 20:52 |
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Get a trash bag large enough to put the TV in, put the TV inside, then go at the glass with a hammer. Then carefully extract all but the glass.
LongbowMkII
> Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
10/04/2015 at 20:53 |
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Do not take a hammer to it without a plan. There’s possibly a charged capacitor that will at the very least make you shit your pants when you hit it.
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Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
> LongbowMkII
10/04/2015 at 21:03 |
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I did come close to electrocuting myself on this project. I thought that I had unplugged it (I must have unplugged something else), but as I snipped through the power cable the sparks and darkness caused by tripped circuit breakers told me otherwise. Thankfully the big-ass wire cutters I used were very well insulated.
I’m not normally that careless, but sometimes I can astound myself...
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Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
> Birddog
10/04/2015 at 21:06 |
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Well, I only paid $100 for it and got a year and a half of usage before it self-destructed, so I guess I did OK overall.
The speakers seem pretty decent, and there are some interesting optical widgets that can be pulled, so it will have a little longer life in pieces.
Manwich - now Keto-Friendly
> Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
10/04/2015 at 22:59 |
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As I understand it, you just keep removing screws.
And you can use one of the lenses as a solar cooker:
You can also make money from the scrap metals inside:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fnzy60…
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Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
> Manwich - now Keto-Friendly
10/04/2015 at 23:20 |
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Well, I’ve run out of screws to remove. Now it’s just a lot of particle board dividers that seem to be providing the internal support structure.
I wanted to just bash a hole in the back of it to look inside but I have been unable to find a hammer, and that’s probably a good thing. Not a lot of metal to recycle unfortunately; I’m down to pretty much wood, plastic and a humongous sheet of very thick (and heavy) glass.
I did separate out the optics and there are some pretty spiffy prisms and such that came out of it. The most amazing part is the little chip, like a CPU, that actually generated the image. It’s only about 1.5 inches square, with a small opening where the entire HD image was created. That small little area blown up to a nice and clear 55 inches - pretty amazing.
My autopsy did confirm the cause of death. As I disassembled the optical tray (all Zeiss stuff, naturally), lots of shards and chunks of the color wheel fell out. Yup, that would do it...
Tohru
> Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
10/05/2015 at 08:41 |
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I have taken apart TV’s before and repaired them. I have not taken apart that brand of TV.