Larry, Would the CTC187AJ Chassis be of help to you? This question is also a test to see if my posts are getting trough now. For the past couple of days I was: Persistent Transient Failure: Delivery time expired. In other words, nothing got trough. Ty Tiberius Kraemer Blue Star Electronics 3312 Silverton Rd. NE Salem, Oregon, 97303-2753 Phone: 503 391 1491 ty1k@xxxxxxxxxxx ----- Original Message ----- From: "Larry E." <videotech@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "tech-assist" <techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 8:30 AM Subject: [TechAssist] RCA F32672SB CTC187CL3 eats the HOT Hi Guys, I don`t have the manual and didn`t see it downloaded in the members area, This set was butchered by another "shop", seems the HOT runs very hot so he decided to mount the HOT on a large heatsink with a computer fan attatched to the heatsink and used speaker wire to get the AC to the transformer he glued onto the board tray!! He has replaced the fly with an oem, needless to say the HOT is dead shorted and now he isn`t returning the customers calls. Customer says after the fly and HOT were changed together the set ran for 3 weeks. I have of course removed the fan, heatsink, wiring etc. etc. I will resolder the hdt, the coil on the base of the HOT, install a new oem HOT, but obviously this will just get me back to the original problem of the HOT running so hot it destroys itself, if someone could download the print to the members area or tell me if a 188 print is the same I would greatly appreciate it, as always Thanks in advance, Larry E Larry Eastman American TV & Electronics Crystal River, Fl. 34428 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Jokes, complaints, off topics, general chat. Everything other than repair help problems can be found at this new list. No archives and posts will not be found on Google or any other engine!To remove or join, click: mailto:ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=subscribe%20chat Send to the list at chat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx once subscribed. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Lost Password: http://www.tech-assist.org and select "Login Problems?". Email Archives: //www.freelists.org/archives/techassist/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jokes, complaints, off topics, general chat. Everything other than repair help problems can be found at this new list. No archives and posts will not be found on Google or any other engine!To remove or join, click: mailto:ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=subscribe%20chat Send to the list at chat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx once subscribed. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lost Password: http://www.tech-assist.org and select "Login Problems?". Email Archives: //www.freelists.org/archives/techassist/