Re: K6100 Focus

Hi Chuck,

Post a picture somewhere of your socket - I'm sure someone here has one
in a junk box they can dig out for you.

John :-#)#

Chuck wrote:
> Well I guess I should update this thread since so many of you have
> helped out. I desoldered the socket from the neck board and found that
> the wire that was soldered to the tab went into the socket and did not
> have good continuity to the flexible contact that touches the pin on
> the tube. Upon my attempt to solder the wire straight through to the
> contact, I seemed to have dripped solder into the socket where the
> contact would seat, causing it to not have enough room for the contact
> to go in far enough to close the socket and reinstall it. Removing the
> solder from the hole where the contact seats ended up causing damage
> to the socket. On top of that, the flexible metal contact snapped in
> two and is now useless. I have been hunting for a socket for the neck
> board, but have not found one yet. I did get a list of tubes that have
> the CR24 socket on them, but have not found a TV old enough to have
> one. The search continues.....
>
> Chuck
>
>
> On Jul 6, 2012, at 11:39 PM, Rodger Boots wrote:
>
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 7:19 PM, John Robertson <pinball@telus.net
>> <mailto:pinball@telus.net>> wrote:
>>
>> Rodger Boots wrote:
>>>
>>> Seeing that it worked before you overhauled it (didn't it?)
>>> check that you put all electrolytic capacitors in correctly. A
>>> reversed one could cause this.
>>>
>>
>> Most of us here are way to polite to mention this (ducking- ouch!)...
>>
>> John ;-#)#
>>
>>
>>
>> Before retirement from Rockwell Collins, with highly trained repair
>> operators, you would NOT believed how many reversed capacitors
>> occured. And they would work fine for a few minutes until they got
>> hot enough to leak enough to blow a fuse or trip out a power supply
>> or just cause general mayhem. Sometimes it would require the 95
>> degrees Celcius of a burn-in chamber to kill them.
>>
>> I never was accused of being polite or diplomatic but was damn good
>> at finding mistakes (you would be surprised at the simple problems
>> most techs miss---reversed parts, ICs put in incorrectly, cracked
>> solder joints, etc.)
>>
>> Yup, sometimes I made mistakes, too. Wasn't afraid of admitting my
>> own mistakes.
>>
>> Still have nightmares of working there.
>>
>>
>> So my real point is that a "works for 15 minutes" problem just
>> SCREAMS reversed capacitor. Easy enough to check for. (And DON'T
>> reused a reversed capacitor).
>

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