As I recall in the early 1970's Zenith had a HV problem with caps opening and HV would increase may arc thru yoke and CRT neck where you would replace a "S" cap with the 4 lead tubular design Remember those they were designed to short when failed and would usually take out the HOT Replaced a bunch in Magnavox and Zenith. Robert tvservice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx H & H Electronics Inc ----- Original Message ----- From: "Edward Gaidies" <teltek2@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 6:20 AM Subject: [TechAssist] Re: When do TVs implode? > Highly unlikely... > > -Ed- > Ed Gaidies > > Teltek2@xxxxxxxxxxxx > > Tel-Tek Electronics > Ontario-Canada > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Stefaan Van Slycken [SMTP:vanslycken@xxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: December 23, 2002 6:43 AM > To: techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [TechAssist] When do TVs implode? > > Hi group... > recently there was a fire in a retirement home around here, probably due to a TV implosion (that's what they said in the news). So every now and then i get asked "Why / When do TVs implode?" - i thought that could only happen if they fell over and the picture tube broke... can it happen "spontaneously"? > > Happy Holidays... > Stefaan Van Slycken > Van Slycken Elektro - Waasmunster, Belgium > ------------------------------------------ > Submit A Repair Tip For Everyone Here: > http://www.tech-assist.org/secure/tip/main.html > ------------------------------------------ > To REMOVE your email address, click here: > http://www.tech-assist.org/unsubb.html > To CHANGE your email address, click here: > http://www.techassist.net/forms/change.html > > > ------------------------------------------ > Submit A Repair Tip For Everyone Here: > http://www.tech-assist.org/secure/tip/main.html > ------------------------------------------ > To REMOVE your email address, click here: > http://www.tech-assist.org/unsubb.html > To CHANGE your email address, click here: > http://www.techassist.net/forms/change.html > > > ------------------------------------------ Submit A Repair Tip For Everyone Here: http://www.tech-assist.org/secure/tip/main.html ------------------------------------------ To REMOVE your email address, click here: http://www.tech-assist.org/unsubb.html To CHANGE your email address, click here: http://www.techassist.net/forms/change.html