Sufficently good insulator to nudge inside live monitor?

Hello Andy,

Try a piece of styrene tubing. works great. You can find this at your local hardware or hobbie store.

All of those sound okay except for possibly the paint on the wood dowl.

- Mike

If you were an engineer you would simply turn your screwdriver through

perpendicular to which plane?

Your problem is unlikely to be in the high tension unless you can hear it crackling so leave it alone. You can prod the rest of the components with a plastic chopstick or similar. The only problems I've seen in monitors is dry capacitors evidenced by leakage residue or bulging top, dry joint on a transformer and loose joint on the VGA connector.

Peter

An detuned plastic knitting needle of about 10" in length.

Smolley

Black paint can be a probablem, but stay away from wood.

greg

He is saying hold the metal end and poke with the plastic handle...

Simple enough.. Just don't over complicate things. Somehow I think you allready kenw what he meant though.

- Mike

Years ago, people used something called an orange stick, shorthand for the wood it was made from, Osage Orange, those ornamental trees with the ugly green brainlike fruits. We called them monkeyfruit when I was a kid. I don't know if any self-respecting monkey would eat them.

I see sticks now that some 'mature' people still call orange sticks, but don't know why...and they look like maybe basswood.

Murray