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Originally Posted by bgadow
I am proud of you, Veg, you're doing well!
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Let me change your mind about that!
Not willing to leave well enough alone, I pulled a 6JU6 out of Anthony and tried plugging it into one of the funky sockets in Woody (henceforth, the Sylvania's official name.) Naturally, the fit was less than ideal, so I was wiggling it around a little to see what would happen. Not much as it turns out.
Sorta.
While jiggling the tube, it came right off in my hand. No change in the picture, oddly. So there I was, holding the tube when there was a small puff of smoke. It came from between the chroma board and the bigass transformer that's to the left of it. I'm pretty sure it didn't come from the transformer itself. Nothing seemed unduly hot. And it was a small puff. Didn't look like anything was smoldering or anything.
There's a red circle on the picture over where the smoke came from. Whoa! Kindly pardon
that syntax!
I'm not sure what those three little spiky things are by C145. Spark gap? The puff might have come from there. There's still a significant amount of dust down there. C145 was nice and cool. The green resistors next to it were hot, but I think they always were.
Oh, and now there's no picture at all. I'm not even sure if anything on the chroma board still lights up. At that point, I put everything down, turned it off, and walked away before I made it even worse. Smart boy, sometimes. Usually too late, though.
All righty. Since I have to pull the chassis anyway to replace the tube sockets, could someone remind me of the easy way to discharge that anode thingie without killing myself? Never pulled a chassis before, but the instructions in the SAMS look pretty easy. And it's not attached to anything right now anyway.
Got my new camera last night, so I'll try to take a picture of the busted-up tube sockets.
Yeah, when I started making progress the very first night, I figured I was going to do something to use up my good karma...
veg