Can anyone mend my telly?

Join your local freecycle group on yahoo groups or click on the link to find your nearest group:

You can not request help in fixing yours by the way

James

That sounds familiar thinking back several years to what he said had been wrong.

Due to the high frequencies used in these

He certainly wouldn't have had any test rig either so I'm guessing it was a fairly simple thing to spot. As you say it might well not be the same thing again though.

Sounds like a plan. If a capacitor stands out as being duff and changing it cures the problem all well and good and if not and it looks more complex I'll bin it. No point wasting hours on the thing. Anything you want done on the engine equipment? Head skim etc, brake disks or flywheel refaced? Honing?

Talking of audio my venerable old Panasonic cassette deck has lost some output on one track. It plays back ok but doesn't record properly anymore on either the right or left speaker side. Or was it vice versa? Drat. I haven't used it for so many years I've forgotten but does that sound like something obvious?

Bah. It's not even a Panasonic. It's a Technics although that's the same company as I recall.

Here's the one.

Corrosion of a contact or switch?

Dunno. But it's reminded me that my Quad preamp (33-303) started smoking on Christmas Day! Time to take a look...

It'll be a component on a circuit board somewhere. Probably just a resistor or capacitor on one side of the record circuit. It can't be the record head because it's a 2 head deck so one head does both playback and record and the other does erase. If it was the record head then both playback and record wouldn't work rather than just one of them. That's about as far as logic alone can take me. Someone who actually knows what they're doing will probably find it in five minutes.

I seem to have lost your email address and I assume the one here is a spam trap? Could you mail me?

In message , Dave Baker writes

CRT - chuck it, they're lethal

They are - like for like. It's just that 40" plus CRT ones were very rare. I have a pal with a 36" one which need a crane to lift it. ;-)