To all: That's what I was leaning towards, and swear to god I saw it change to a perfect picture by its self. Then inverted set and beat it senseless and could not change it one bit. You are proudly right and the way this week is going that is proudly what's wrong with it. Bad crt and a bad vert out Ic with those bad surface mount chips. Just another set for the landfill. Thanks for the responses. Mitch ----- Original Message ----- From: "peggs" <peggs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, October 24, 2003 2:57 PM Subject: [TechAssist] Re: Phillips 27PS50B121 ch 27L800 vert tearing/poor color Purity is changing with Degaussing Coil disconnected ??? Sounds like a loose shadow mask. Does wrapping the side of the set make purity change ??? Vert. Tearing, I would look at the Yoke Peggs At 10:23 AM 10/24/03, Mitchs Electronics wrote: >Thought I have seen everything. This set Intermentely has vertical tearing >/ bands and degaussing will change even with the auto degasser >disconnected. Looks like poor purity at times. Cant manually degauss the >crt, but can change the purity. Any one have any clues? I'm stumped. >Mr. R. L. Mitchell >Mitch's Electronics >Lincoln, NE 68502 >Mitchstv@xxxxxxxxxx >*************************************************************************** ** >Classifieds! Buy or Sell! >http://sell.tech-assist.org >The Tech Address Book: >http://www.tech-assist.org/secure/tip/contact.htm >Add a Repair Tip Here, or Change/Remove your Email Address: >http://www.tech-assist.org/secure/tip/main.htm >Lost Password: >http://www.tech-assist.org and select "Lost your Login Info?". >Email Archives: >//www.freelists.org/archives/techassist/ **************************************************************************** * Classifieds! Buy or Sell! http://sell.tech-assist.org The Tech Address Book: http://www.tech-assist.org/secure/tip/contact.htm Add a Repair Tip Here, or Change/Remove your Email Address: http://www.tech-assist.org/secure/tip/main.htm Lost Password: http://www.tech-assist.org and select "Lost your Login Info?". Email Archives: //www.freelists.org/archives/techassist/ ***************************************************************************** Classifieds! Buy or Sell! http://sell.tech-assist.org The Tech Address Book: http://www.tech-assist.org/secure/tip/contact.htm Add a Repair Tip Here, or Change/Remove your Email Address: http://www.tech-assist.org/secure/tip/main.htm Lost Password: http://www.tech-assist.org and select "Lost your Login Info?". Email Archives: //www.freelists.org/archives/techassist/