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03-28-2013, 12:34 PM
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About 25 years ago I found a little 12" B&W portable, can't even remember the brand, that had sat out in the rain somewhere for who knows long. I brought it home and let it dry out. It worked right away. I never opened it up. It had an intermittent that would cut it off every now and then (probably a tube heater) but if you waited a minute it would come back on for a long time.
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03-28-2013, 02:21 PM
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I have repaired several flat screen TVs that have caught themselves on fire. I know that's not terribly interesting. There is one model of Philips LCD that I have seen fire damaged several times (I actually witnessed one catch fire on my bench too). A cold solder joint on the inverter transformer arcs and lights the board on fire. It just burns up the top of the board and surrounding components and the fire goes out. It is a plastic-backed TV, so it could catch the back on fire and be disastrous, but I have never seen that happen yet.
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03-28-2013, 03:00 PM
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Not fire, but water...As a Kid, I had a 5-303W Sony. There was this girl I was friends with, we practically "Lived" at each others' houses. Her older sisters kinda "Babysat" us. Anyhow, there was a bathroom right by my room, & for some unfathomable reason, we thought it would be Big Fun to have the TV in the Can. Well, guess you can figger out where this is leading-The l'il Sony weny Kersplash ! into the Loo, fortunately, said Loo was flushed, & the TV was unplugged... Fished it out, dried it off & didn't plug it in/turn it on for a day or 2...Worked like a trooper. The luck of a 5 yr old...Amazingly, I DIDN'T some how manage to kill myself-Or anyone else...
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