Popular Mechanics article "How To Repair Telephones", Oct 1987

[George Knighton]

After reading it, I find really nothing that is at all helpful....

It's still kind of neat, though, in a hobby that never gets any good attention anywhere.  :-)

[McHeath]

How times have changed.  Pretty sure there won't be an article in Pop Mechanics today with the topic of "How to repair your cell phone". 

[twocvbloke]

Pretty sure there won't be an article in Pop Mechanics today with the topic of "How to repair your cell phone". 

Nope, the internet does that already, though most of the time it's just replacing parts like screens, keypads digitisers and cases, not actual right down to the circuit repairs, cos they're just too complex for the home DIYer...