Weird picture issue GE 805

[jr_tech]

Originally Posted by Chris K

I cleaned the cabinet as best I could last night. The cigarette tar that came off of it was insane! I thoroughly went through it inside and out. When I did it a second time, there was still brown residue coming off it. I remember those days of smoke filled rooms and offices. It wasn't unusual to view an evening news broadcast with the anchor having a burning cigarette in an ashtray on the anchor podium. My neighbor, a chain smoker, used to walk around her house with a cigarette in one hand and an ashtray in the other all day long. The TV didn't smell when I got it but I could smell the tar as I was cleaning it. Amazing and a bit disgusting.

Perhaps you could also be scrubbing off a surface layer of degraded (oxidized?) bakelite?

http://www.retrofixes.com/2013/08/re...-bakelite.html

jr