The gaskets, should be changed Part No, 223221 Gasket these are in the holes in the HV block. and guide the anode leads into the block. hth agower@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Cordova TV Adolph Gower 3415 Comet Court Sacramento, Ca. 95827-2924 Phone: (916) 698-6565 Fax: (916) 363-8359 ----- Original Message ----- From: "peggs" <peggs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: 2005Äê4ÔÂ6ÈÕ 13:20 Subject: [TechAssist] Re: RCA CTC169 proj. lense- is it algae or burn on CRT face? > "I've already told customer $250.00 to change the splitter'........ > Explain it to him,and let him make the decision. > He was watchin THAT picture before the Splitter went. > > I'd definitely charge more,and he needs to understand,that if you exchange > the Green Coolant, > the Blue (foggyness) may appear.....depends on how bad the Blue is and the > Red for that matter. > > Peggs > > At 08:56 AM 4/6/05, Gary McCartney wrote: >>I have a CTC169 projection in the shop that I replaced the HV splitter. >>Now I am cleaning the CRT lenses and I found the green one to have a >>smear look to it on the CRT face. The coolant does not seem to have >>bubbles or things floating around in it, but it looks like there is >>algae on the CRT face. Either that or the face is burned. I have >>included a link to a photo I took of the CRT so maybe someone will be >>able to tell. >> >>http://www.number63.ca/crt-lense.jpg >> >>I've only done a coolant job on one projection, that being an old >>Philips set, so I'm not real familar with the symptoms. I didn't notice >>any problem with the picture when looking into the lense before I >>removed it to clean. Is it worth ripping it apart to change the coolant, >>especially with RCA not providing new gaskets? Will I have to do it to >>all 3 CRT's to even up the brightness of the picture afterwards (red and >>blue don't have this problem but may look worse than a cleaned up green)? >> >>I've already told customer $250.00 to change the splitter. I'm afraid >>he'll want to cancel the whole job if I tell him more money to change >>coolant. How much should a job like this be worth, with new HDTV >>projections, plasma, etc entering the scene? >> >> >> >> >>Thanks for any replies. >>-- >> >> >> >> >>Gary McCartney >> >>McCartney Electronics >>Guelph Ontario Canada >>Est. 1984 >>email: gary (at) number63.ca >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >>----------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>This Email List is Public. Remove: http://www.tech-assist.org/remove.htm >>Lost Password: http://www.tech-assist.org and select "Login Problems?". >>Email Archives: //www.freelists.org/archives/techassist/ > > -- > This message has been scanned by the OMU Online postini filter. > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This Email List is Public. Remove: http://www.tech-assist.org/remove.htm > Lost Password: http://www.tech-assist.org and select "Login Problems?". > Email Archives: //www.freelists.org/archives/techassist/ > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- This Email List is Public. Remove: http://www.tech-assist.org/remove.htm Lost Password: http://www.tech-assist.org and select "Login Problems?". Email Archives: //www.freelists.org/archives/techassist/