A question for TV experts

[Bugman]

The only problem I've ever had with that TV is we had a lightening strike nearby and I guess it made the color go crazy in one spot. I took a speaker magnet and waved it over the bad area and gradually dragged the messed up color spot out of the picture. You know noe that I'm writing all this the thing is going to blow up!!

[Ron61]

Yes, that is a definite possibility. Every time I talk about how well something is lasting or doing, it normally falls apart within a month. I do love the way you fixed your color problem. Did you patent it?
by the way, the magnets out of microwave ovens are much stronger as they run the magnetron tube. I have a couple stuck on my toolbox and have to slide them to get them loose.

Ron

[Wes Tausend]

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Bugman,

The TV might already be broke if the shadow mask is magnetic.
You probably know this ...but the thermistor on the degaussing coil is probably fried open.

For those that don't know, the degaussing coil is a coil of wire around the front perimeter of any colored CRT picture tube that momentarily produces a strong, but quickly fading magnetic field, to demagnetize the metal in the tube so that the correct electrons hit the right color phosphors without being bent by a stray magnetic field. A loud 60 cycle hum is momentarily heard when the coil first energizes until the inline thermistor gets hot and cuts off current. Unless it is already fried and never passes any current.

Ron,

I suppose you can tell which screwdrivers and wrenches are yours by the way they all swivel to point north when layed down?


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