[AiboPet]

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I'd love to see a donor set for this TV6U. I did this same thing with Kamakiri for his Sony 8-301 set...which HE got from Sandy. Nice that these "parts" sets can sorta make the rounds to make other sets "happy" again.

This TV6U set sorta scares me to get into it....because I actually LOVE how it looks even as just a "shelf queen"....so It'll be nice to still have one I can "look at" on a shelf..even as I have the "best parts" of both sets coming together to hopefully get one to go again.

From what I see of these, this "tuner gone" problem is actually the MOST common issue with this set. If I REALLY luck out...maybe I can get BOTH the IF boards to go again and be able to offer one up to someone. I really suspect one of the silicon parts on the IF board is gone on these. I remember having to clean the tuner with deoxit and "electronics cleaner" quite a bit to get the tuner to stop showing a short somewhere on ONE channel that would make parts on the IF board get REAL hot. I suspect whatever THAT problem is.....likely burnt up some silicon on these.

I don't suspect the tuners are dead...because the "raster only" shows up even with the UHF module switched in. I think this is after the tuners, and before the rest of the set...because I CAN get a very crude picture and sound by using the IF output pins and one leg of the volume pot.

The vertical size problem is some more pedestrian thing a recap should solve. I have about 1/2 of the vertical...NOT folded over or anything, just can't get much size.

Also, if you have that odd "bright on the right and darker on the left" raster....THAT problem seems to go away the second there is a video signal present.