Sam,
Your whacking solution worked great. I took the set outside and blew 8 or 9
years of dirt out of the inside, but now the picture is whiter. It's far
from unwatchable, but I found the difference interesting. Any ideas what
happened? Thanks.

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"Samuel M. Goldwasser" wrote in message
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"J Wald" writes:

Hello. My television began shutting itself off. I could turn it back on,
but
then it shut down again a short time later. After about 3 or 4 days of
that,
it quit working at all. After about a week of no tv, I pushed the on
button
and
shazam, it worked again. I've been watching it for about a week now, but
it
just went out again. Any idea's about what's going on? The set was
manufactured in Feb of '98. Thanks.

Problems like this tend to be caused by bad solder joints or other
bad connections. They are affected by environmental conditions like
temperature so tend to come and go. Gently whacking the TV would
probably make it come or go as well.

It's repairable but continuing to use it in this state may result
in more serious and expensive problems.

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