01/21 lenses

 Today we took my new(used) projector to the LG repair service center near our home bc stupid me tried to polish the lens (gently) with an alcohol pad. Apparently, projector lenses are teetotalers. Who knew? You?

Well I learned the hard way: don’t do that. So off to the repair center. The guy immediately stated that he’ll have to replace all the guts of the thing to replace the front lens and it would be 390,000won ($265US). I knew this was horseshit bc I had looked it up. As soon as he sensed I wasn’t happy, he went straight online and a minute later said, oh here’s the part we need, I’ll replace just that for 78,000won ($53). That’s more like it. It’ll be ready in 5-6 days. Morals of the story: Don’t clean lenses with alcohol and always trust a fucking megacorporation to try to do you over in their first quote. Do your homework first.

Shaking off the ugly taste of bullyboy capitalism, we went to one of our cool coffeeshops g/b/d, before the noisy ajummas flock in. Yeah this is my typical ornery attitude before coffee. After coffee, I was back to being Dr. Jekyll and we decided to get Misun new reading glasses for her new eye situation.

Off to Emart for a thorough test of her eyesight and picking out sweet frames (she looks great in glasses, in my opinion). All good there. No gouging of eyes or bank accounts.

So today was all about lenses.

followup: it turned out they didn't want to charge me that low price and said they couldn't fix it, probably expecting me to give up and take it in the ass for 390,000won. We just came and collected the thing and left without making a fuss. Fuck LG and fuck proprietary design. Now I have 3 projectors. One new one that works like a charm, one that takes up to an hour to stop glitching and one that's permanently hazy. the busted ones will be used as lighting instruments in my future live projects!