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Old 02-18-2008, 04:34 AM
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And, no matter what you think, that would be all of them. All the symptoms you show would be caused by the faulty capacitors, and, such. And, those black beuty caps are just itching to blow.
I agree with reforming not being a good idea. It won't last. I have tried reforming caps in many sets. Every time they all failed within a short time.If you are not going to do it right, don't even bother. The only right thing to do is a total proper re build..I have been in repair business much of my life, and, made many mistakes. I have definately found the only way to do it is the right way....
See my post on my replacement for the family tv.
The original owner kept it going through the early 70's with one jury rig after another until enough parts failed that the tv just gave up the ghost.
I'm close to having it done, but, only after much very hard work.
I now have hv, a white line, was getting a popping under the chassis, and, reception.
I just found one reason for the popping, and, fixed that.....
When I got the set it had all bad caps, dead electrolytics, burned resistors, open vert. osc. transformer, bad flyback due to them putting in a 10A fuse in hv to try to stop fuse blowing caused by a shorted horizontal output tube.
I have also had to replace the deflection yoke,14 out of 21 tubes, and, their dead replacement picture tube. I tried proper rejuv. of that, but, it was just too far gone. I suspect the bad caps had something to do with that.
They did dammage the tone control.

Now, are you still sure it isn't so important to do a thoruough job??????
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