What did you use to clean the messy compound from the bumpers? Dennis gulftech@xxxxxxxx wrote: > Friends, > > I haven't posted this as a problem before, because I couldn't identify > the problem well enough to ask for help. After many, many hours of work > and two failed attempts to return the light box to the customer, the set > is finally fixed and I hope this will help others in the future. > > The set came in with the complaint of instant shutdown. The green CRT > was arcing at the second anode. There appeared to be a contaminant > spilled in the area. Cleaning and RTV appeared to repair the set. > > Took lightbox back to customer. Found light horizontal lines, almost > like retrace on all three CRT's. Had not seen in shop. Also, appeared > to have a slight sync problem. For example, bring up convergence > crosshatch, vertical lines had slight "s" shape in middle. > > After many hours of troubleshooting and failed attempts, tried PIP pix. > PIP image was totally out of sync, like is typical of Mitsubishi. Pulled > the PIP module. It had three rubber bumpers to isolate the pcb from the > shield. These bumpers had melted like Hershey's Kisses. What a mess! > Also found seven bad caps. For the record: C424, C425, C426, C501 (all > 15ufd, 50V), C318/.47@50, C518/10@50, and C121/25@100. Most of these > caps check good with a normal cap meter, but high ESR. > > Set works fine now. > > Ken Smith > Gulf Technical Services > 3034 Gulf Breeze Parkway > Gulf Breeze, FL 32561 > 850-934-8324 (Voice) 850-932-0819 (Fax) > > ________________________________________________________________ > GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! > Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! > Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: > http://dl.www.juno.com/get/web/. > ------------------------------------------ > Help make your TechAssist database better! > Submit your fixes here: http://circuitwork.com/techassist/tip/#tips > ------------------------------------------ > To UNSUBSCRIBE your email address, click here: > mailto:techassist-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > Or send a BLANK email with unsubscribe in the > SUBJECT field to the address above. ------------------------------------------ Help make your TechAssist database better! Submit your fixes here: http://circuitwork.com/techassist/tip/#tips ------------------------------------------ To UNSUBSCRIBE your email address, click here: mailto:techassist-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe Or send a BLANK email with unsubscribe in the SUBJECT field to the address above.