After looking at some other posts of the same problem, I also left the TV on for a few minutes and the picture comes up. BUT, the picture goes on then off and cycles like this every 2 seconds constantly.
On Nov 27, 3:23=A0am, mnpinball wrote:UT, the picture
This is the classic sign of a tired Sony tube. The AKB blanks out the picture if one of the 3 guns is not emitting well. There are a few 'bodges' such as changing the value of the heater feed series resistor to 0R5 instead of 1R, and/or raising the SCREEN preset on the line transformer, but these are short term fixes whose effectivenss can generally be measured in weeks or months, if that. I'd give it a try, but look around locally for another set. You can get decent used sets from the likes of Hitachi and Toshiba for next to nothing as people 'upgrade' to flat panels.
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