Absolutely. My dad was very mechanical. Was a car mechanic before I was born, and would repair cars all my life (with very few specialized exceptions). I think that TVs are one thing that have gotten really disposable that used to be almost always repaired, and he's been buying broken TVs off craigslist, replacing some capacitors on the motherboard (the issue 99% of the time, few dollars in parts) and voila - new tv. Thankfully, I've picked up from my father in that regard, not my father-in-law.