TV is fixed.
You remember weeks ago, the capacitor in my aircraft-carrier-sized TV cracked, leaking electrolytes into my powerpack, & shorting out three components. There were no such components available locally and none in our city of Tagbilaran. We tried to buy an entire new powerpack, but none was available locally, none in Tag, and none in Germany because they had been discontinued.
Then we found this scrawny little man in Tag working out of an actual hovel. I think he might be a wizard because in a few days he was able to gather the components and fix the powerpack. Cost = P2,500 [~$50].
I don't think I'd mentioned earlier that when we'd wrestled the TV off the wall, we'd damaged the wall. We'd patched the damage, but could find no store which had the right color paint to redo the wall. Yesterday when we picked up powerpack, we once again made the rounds of the paint stores, and the
last one had some.
So we repainted the wall, installed the powerpack into the TV, wrestled the TV up onto its wall bracket, hooked up the sound system & everything works.
So much better than having to buy a new TV.