Singer TV6

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This is the first TV6 I have ever worked on.I had been putting it off for years
as I figured this set would be a bear to work on.This set showed some signs
of life upon first power up,a faint wiggly raster and some hum from the speaker.
I was surprised to find that this set was easier to work on than I thought.
I changed every electrolytic capacitor in this tv,some were so deteriorated
that they fell off the board after unsoldering only one lead.
I did eventually get a full raster,and a picture,although very faint.That lasted
about a 1/2 hour,and then the screen flickered,and no more signal,but a good raster.After trouble-shooting the video "IF" stage for an hour or so,no signal coming out of the 3rd if stage,I decided to tap into the video detector(and audio) Basically setting the tv up as a composite monitor.After all,there are no more analog braodcast's around here,so the tuner is no longer needed.
This particular set now has a razor sharp picture,with plenty of brightness and contrast.Like I said,this was my first shot at a tv 6,maybe on the next one I may get the tuner functional,as I have 17 of these tiny sets(crazy,I know)