"Charles" wrote in message
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I have worked on many Sony receivers with Fluorescent displays..... I
am guessing that what you are thinking is a socket is really a spacer
and the display is soldered directly to the pcb. ....

Oooooh, I'll bet you're right.

simple enough, get your solder wick out and un-solder and remove the
display.

I had considered doing that. It wouldn't take me too long and there's a
much
lower probability of damaging the display even if that spacer was a
socket.



Yeah give that a shot, those Radio Shack desoldering irons work pretty well
for that sort of thing, one of the few worthwhile things they sell. Also if
it has pins on both sides you may find that desoldering one side is
sufficient to flip the display up and get to that cap.