Once again, thanks for the replies about the cracked board on this CTC169. Al hit the nail on the head on this one: "Look in the front left corner by the audio board. If that's not it check the box capacitor towards the front of the board in the center for solder and internal break. " Al Marquardt ampm@xxxxxxx There was a crack at the very front corner of the board, where there is a half circle cut at the edge. There are 2 traces there that were cracked. Jumpered them and set starts up and runs fine now. Customer will call me if he wants the fluid in his CRT's changed. Gary My previous update: Thanks for everyone's time to reply. I put the lenses back on the CRTs and fired up the set. I can see the algae in the green CRT but the picture shines through it no problem. Red and blue are clear. I called the customer and explained the situation and the extra cost involved, but he said he was quite happy with the picture before he brought it in for repair and that he'll call me again if the picture becomes cloudy in the future. Unfortunately I now have another problem with this chassis. I believe there is a hairline crack in the circuit board somewhere because sometimes the set fires up without the CRT's lighting up. The filaments are lit and there is HV, and when I slide out the main board and twist it a bit, the CRT's come on. Have done a lot of soldering and I am now searching the board for cracks. I pushed once at the centre of the board and the CRT's came on but I can't get it to repeat, Arugggg. I did find the chocolate drop sydrome at the base of the vertically mounted board behind the tuner so I removed the board and cleaned it up- no change. Maybe the scope and schematic will find it. Will report back when I find the crack. Gary McCartney McCartney Electronics Guelph Ontario Canada Est. 1984 email: gary (at) number63.ca My original message: 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/