Have an early 70s 13" Sony TV. Now and then all of the red "flickers" in and
out of the picture. Is it a possible bad picture tube or ?

Thanks
AJ

Hello, danyexp!
You wrote on Sun, 21 Aug 2005 21:44:43 -0500:

d Have an early 70s 13" Sony TV. Now and then all of the red "flickers" in
d and out of the picture. Is it a possible bad picture tube or ?

d Thanks
d AJ

Yes that's possible, but it could be just a bad solder joint, the most
likely place to look is on the small circuit board on the CRT pins. check
the pins themselves and also the video drive transistors.
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"danyexp" wrote in message
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Have an early 70s 13" Sony TV. Now and then all of the red "flickers" in
and
out of the picture. Is it a possible bad picture tube or ?

Thanks
AJ


Swap over the drives to the crt. This will give you some weird colours, but
it will also tell you if the problem is with the tube. If the picture still
flickers all red then the tube is faulty, if it is either geen or blue then
it is a drive fault.

"danyexp" wrote in message
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Have an early 70s 13" Sony TV. Now and then all of the red "flickers" in
and
out of the picture. Is it a possible bad picture tube or ?

Thanks
AJ



Theoretically possible, but very unlikely. You probably have a cracked
solder joint on the neck board, pretty quick fix normally.