e to buy a silicone solution to refill the eject pistons in cassette player s. You can also use Vaseline. To do so though means taking the control ou t, taking it apart, and lightly covering all moving surfaces.
r - zip. I got out the old Sams and traced the lost chroma to the color con trol. It was arranged like a volume control. No matter how the control wa s manipulated, there was no sign of color. Throwing a jumper across it res tored the chroma. For Shits & Giggles, I flushed the control with Tun'O Lub e (a clear, oiless cleaner for degreasing tuners without pissing off the ne utralizing trim in RCA mechanical tuners). To my surprise, the color poppe d back and adjusted normally throughout the range. The only problem was th at I had washed out the spooze that Sony filled their controls with to make them feel like they were of high quality and had a heft and weight to them . The customer returned the TV a couple of days later because he didn't li ke how the control had craploads of endplay and almost no drag as it was ro tated. We ordered a new control from Sony to make the guy happy.
Rubber belts tends to have disintegrated, less often rubber pulleys too. Ch eap stationery rubber bands are often good enough, but not always.
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