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I know there are a number of you who are pros repairing games as a regular job (and also a few who claim amateur status but are absolute monsters at repair) and the more I read Randy Fromm's Big Blue and Green books the more it seems to me that there COULD be a fairly (although maybe pretty broad) universal list of components to have on hand while working on monitors.
I would like to assemble that kind of assortment in my shop.

It was an eye-opener to learn that you can actually substitute for exact model transistors in the same vein that you can with capacitors to some degree and it dawned on me that since we wind up using so many of the same package components with only slight variations that a universal set could be a thing.
Things like voltage regulators, HOTs, ICs and any of the other transistors and caps sprinkled around chassis boards for example.

Of course it may wind up that you have a WG set, a Hantarex set, Sharp Image set, Nanao set, etc. just to keep things manageable but I thought it would be cool to fill my parts bins with known good components that could be used on any number of chassis (since I have SO many different ones in my games here now and I'm over the fear of trying to work on some of them myself.)

Any thoughts from those of you who know a lot more than I?
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