On Mon, 17 Jan 2011 09:35:25 -0500, "Nancy Young"
wrote:

aemeijers wrote:
On 1/17/2011 1:32 AM, wrote:

Probably a tube is getting weak. Remove the back, label all the
tubes for location on the chassis, so you can put them back in the
same socket. Pull out all tubes and take them to your local
drugstore or hardware store and test them in their tube tester.
Replace any bad ones and you should have a good working tv for
several more years.

I haven't seen a tube tester in any local retail stores in at least 20
years. Or were you pulling our chain?

I think he was kidding around.

But having said that- unless OP wants to fix it just to know he can
(which I understand and is perfectly valid), the cheapest solution is
to cruise by the local thrift stores (Goodwill, Salvation Army, etc.)
and check out their stock. 27" glass TVs go for about 30 bucks. Most
of those paces have a cable feed, or at least a converter box, and
you can light it up and verify picture quality. The ones around here
have a good stock right now- Santa musta brought lots of flat screens
for Xmas.

I'd like to replace at least my larger TVs with flat panels, but these
damn Sony Trinitrons just will not die. Being a cheap SOB, I can't
justify junking working hardware, especially when the old stuff has
close to zero resale value at this point.

I have my old tv, a Sony, I'm thinking I'll take it to Goodwill. I don't
know what else to do with it. I feel (a little) bad about replacing a
working tv, but I needed a flat tv. I don't want to junk my old tv to
boot.

nancy
Around here Goodwill will not take a TV over 5 years old. I tried
last week - ended up taking it to the dump.