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Originally Posted by Phil Nelson
The fact that a vintage TV worked until recently is no guarantee of future performance. Old capacitors degrade with age whether a set was used daily or it was sitting unused in a showroom from day one.
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+1. But now you know that the important parts that are hard to find replacements for are in good condition (flyback, yoke, CRT, power transformer), so you know that doing a recap is worth it. Replace one cap at a time, that way you are much less likely to forget where the replacement connects to. The wax caps and electrolytic (big aluminum cans) caps should be replaced, for reliability, to avoid damage to the above important parts. The audio amp is similar to that found in a radio, though the FM detector is likely a quadrature detector. Should be fixable without a lot of effort.
11-03-2013, 01:53 PM
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