jango2 wrote in message
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Got this Philips 14" B&W tv ages ago.
Symptom : Video muted with no sound.
So where would one start? I was thinking maybe tuner section or IF.
Turned out the speaker was shorted, the volume was set to high, hence
supplies were dropping due to an unnatural load. Disconnected speaker
wire and voila, picture was restored. Recoiled the speaker and
everything worked fine.
Jango.


An insect cocoon between laser and lens of a CD

When I used to repair car cassette players,
note, not recorders. All tapes put into this one would come
out with the repeated click noise of a vinyl record recorded
on them, write-protected cassettes or not.
Tiny piece of magnetic material embedded in the pinch wheel

Switch Mode PS of a scope failing to fully power up.
Due to spots of mold that had grown on the
transparent light path between LED and opto
receiver of an encapsulated opto-coupler between control
and HV side of the ps

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