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CRT (Makvision) image is a large bluish blob. Dead, or repairable?
Zebidee:
--- Quote from: jennifer on February 25, 2021, 03:21:41 pm ---Don't know what kind of sites you guys are hanging out on, but banging on it with a spoon or whatever kinda sounds like a bad idea, even if it works you still got the potential short floating around, and never did address the clean and balance...It's your tube man, Good luck.
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Might sound scary but unless he goes at it gangbusters he doesn't have much to lose. Only other practical alternative is to find someone generous and local that can help out with a rejuvenator - which would try to burn the short off, which honestly sounds even dodgier.
jennifer:
Ya what was I thinking, A rejuvinator that is just a stupid idea...Bang on it with your stick I guess.
Baldbull:
Grabbed my other meter as a sanity check... There is definitely a short between blue pin and heater.
Tapped on the tube 5-10 times.... short doesn't show up anymore???
Definitely something floating around in there it seems...
Zebidee:
--- Quote from: jennifer on February 25, 2021, 04:43:57 pm ---Ya what was I thinking, A rejuvinator that is just a stupid idea...Bang on it with your stick I guess.
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Be nice, I said gentle tapping not banging. If it works then it works, it has for others, not everybody has a rejuvenator in their workshop.
Anyway I don't want to "bang on" about it.
Baldbull:
IT WORKED!!!!!!!
Now I just have to find this damn transistor I broke... 2SA1371-E
if only I'd have started with the tube.