Set came in with the usual complaints: "goes snowy, and sometimes a vertical problem". Customer said that the set was never worked on so I figured I would do the tuner sheild and that would be it. I found that the soldering had in fact been done at some point and it actually looked pretty good. I have seen this repair done before on a symptomatic set and after re soldering the problem was resolved. I understand that there is a "template" for this repair, but I have never used it and have not had any problems with returns. I redid all the points on this set and reinstalled the chassis. I noted that tapping on the top of the tuner causies an intermittent loss of RF. I opened it back up and re did the sheilds as well as all the points on the board within the tuner area. I must be missing something but I can't for the life of me see what it is. I still have intermittent RF. Has anyone seen this before? Thanks, Lenny Stein, Barlen Electronics.
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18 years ago