{"id":2858,"date":"2025-06-11T01:11:38","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T05:11:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/?p=2858"},"modified":"2025-06-11T01:17:18","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T05:17:18","slug":"i-could-watch-this-guy-for-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/?p=2858","title":{"rendered":"I Could Watch This Guy for Hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I first heard about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@MendItMark\">&#8220;Mend It Mark&#8221;<\/a> when there was an outcry from the Youtube community that he had received a take down notice from a &#8220;high end&#8221; audio manufacturer called Tom Evans. It became a right to repair issue and many Youtubers posted a copy of the video and dared Tom Evans to try and take them down. Anyway, Mend It Mark is a really good channel of a very competent electronics tech doing his job. Like furniture and tool restoration videos, it is soothing. Here Mark does a quick, but thorough repair on a 90&#8217;s Technics Amp. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Gzm3-_Fohkc?si=PXBlzMkdLjazApTP\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The Tom Evans thing is pretty neat. He basically reverse engineers a piece of audio kit that has every part &#8220;potted&#8221; (identifying numbers have been erased or covered on every component) and created his own repair manual. Amazing talent this guy has. The video was restored and is here&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-RJbpFSFziI\">The \u00a325,000 Pre-Amp that went Wrong &#8211; Tom Evans Mastergroove SR mkIII<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I first heard about &#8220;Mend It Mark&#8221; when there was an outcry from the Youtube community that he had received a take down notice from a &#8220;high end&#8221; audio manufacturer called Tom Evans. It became a right to repair issue &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/?p=2858\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-science","category-technology"],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/?author=1"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2858"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2864,"href":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2858\/revisions\/2864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}