Failed yoke on Xerox 6085 monitor

[JohnCT]

Originally Posted by compu_85

I've started carefully peeling the wire apart, and the bad enamel goes deep into the windings. I just don't think there'll be any fixing this

There might be. I've fixed a lot of yokes like this (Mitsubishi PTVs used to eat yokes like Doritos and then they became unavailable).

Keep separating the wires with a sharpened awl until you have them apart. I've had them go three layers deep but yours doesn't look that bad.

Even though there's several hundred volts on the windings there's very little between adjacent windings, so if you can get them separated, you can add a little liquid insulation. The arced winding don't need to be all that far apart because there's little voltage between adjacent windings, but you have to insulate your repair from the tube if the aquadag extends deep down the neck.

I used to use a very low viscosity cyanacrolate which would seep into the windings because of the low surface tension. Sometimes it took 10 or more coats to get it fully insulated and bonded, but I had great luck doing yokes this way.

John