"Sam Goldwasser" wrote in message
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"half_pint" writes:

"James Sweet" wrote in message
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There is like a big round 'sucker' (plunger shaped thing)
where it atttaches to the tube, this has a lot of (well a fair
bit
of)
black 'dust' on. I can see some blue 'arcing' on the 'sucker
type'
thing which the cable is attached too. this is where the niose
comes
from.


That's fairly common, you need to remove the anode cap

How do I do that? Just pull it off?
Is it rubber or metal, I thought it was metal, maybe it
is rubber, (rubber sounds more sensible.

It's rubber,

So it *should* be safe to touch???????

In principle the rubber cap should be safe to touch but as you have
observed, with all the dust, there is high voltage on it!

The 'light show' is on the outside of this rubber cap (iits all covered
in black dust though).

That should not be there.

I am a little puzzeled, if the tube is earthed, and the outside of the
cap is high tension.........if the two meet.....boom..(or zap).
Is this the final arc zap mentioned earlier in the thread?

Yes.

And why is the outside of the cap high tension, is it because of the
black stuff or is the cap perished?

Because it is contaminated underneath as well.


I am not too sure where the ht on the cap comes from.


I think I assumed (wrongly) the outside of the cap was ment to be HT.

Nope.

I am a little more worried now.

No need to be worried, but you should do as has been suggested here
and not use the TV until then.

What no TV!!!!


If you have any doubts about your ability to do it, then have a repair
shop clean it. Shouldn't be expensive now. Only if you wait for the
final ZAP!


I had been meaning to replace the TV with a bigger one and use it
as a spare portable.

If it does go pop I would perfer to spend any repair money on a
new portable (I can get one for less than £60) and buy a new main
set too. This set also has a few other niggling problems.
It sometimes needs tuning adjusting when I switch channels, particularly
when its temperature is changing, and the remote has a dodgy button
plus the battery connections are dodgy, great picture apart from that
though. Although the black bar at the top on pseudo widescreen
broadcasts does appear slightly larger on one side. I believe
twisting some coils somewhere might fix that but I am not sure
if I am up to doing that.

I will not leave it on unattended though.

Mind you, I can only put it on standby, unless I unplug it and
lose all the stations. The on-off switch on the main set doesnt
appear to work! (nasty combination eh?). I think standby
switches off the HT though so I should be ok.

thanks anyway.


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