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Originally posted by H2s04
If you've seen my past posts about my Magnavox score a few weeks ago, you've seen that awesome one with the vertical controls.
I want to begin cleaning the chassis soon, and I need to disconnect the the picture tube, and OFCOURSE I've run into another one of my Jeff-like problems. I tried approaching this in as gentile a manner as possible, having experienced a similar problem like this about a year ago. When I tried to remove the picture tube socket, I quickyly realized that it was not going to budge, espcially once the bakelite base of the tube began to loosen 
So I have two questions:
1. Whats the best way to re-secure the bakelite base? I'm planing on filling the whole thing up with some sort of silicone goop, but im really not sure what to use or how to apply it.
2. How can I remove the socket without breaking any of the pins? I'm guessing I'll have to use some harsh chemical to seperate the pins from the socket. Are there any suggestions about removing it?
Heres a pic of the chassis:
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Reminds me of when the CRT socket came off the tube in an old Philco I had in the '70s. The cement just crystallized, and the base came off in my hand while I was trying to disconnect the socket from the tube.
I mentioned in a previous post how I was able to get the set going again by soldering the leads from the chassis to the wire leads extending from the CRT neck. However, the repair lasted only a couple weeks or so, until one day one of the wires broke off at the CRT neck, the lead fell across a couple other connections (yes, there were sparks--I think one of the leads it shorted to may have been the focus pin since the spark, IIRC, was rather large and healthy, though I wasn't sure then and will never know now, over thirty years later), and of course that put the set out of commission for good.
Just as well, I guess, since we moved a short time later and the Philco, along with about 20 or 30
other old sets I had in the basement (Doug, I thought of you and all those sets you had to move when you moved to your new home, as I was writing this), went out with the trash. I wish there would have been such a thing as AK back in the '70s--if there were, I certainly would have tried to find those sets better homes than the landfill in Cleveland.
Jeff S