Philips Magnavox Cooling Fluid Headache

[John Marinello]

If you're lucky, the smoke came from a wet power resister, or another component that normally operates hot. I wash stuff regular with heavily-deluted dish soap, or Windex, but it has to be bone-dry before power is applied. I had to replace contaminated coolant in a Phillips set years ago.
Blue also. That was back when a local TV shop sold the coolant over the counter. They told me that the blue was the first to fail, and the theory was
that the blue CRT assembly area was closest to the cabinet assembly area.
Hence, more dust & contaminants in the air.
Freak accident years ago... A full can of beer was batted off of a counter, and landed upside-down inside of a computer, while the computer was in use.
You had to see it to believe it. What a shot! Entire mother board & every card in the expansion slots was frothing like a rabid dog. I immediately unplugged it and sprayed everything down in the kitchen sink. I blew as much water out that I could, put it on the heating register, covered it with a blanket, and let it sit for a few hours. The clock lost 15 minutes, but otherwise it worked fine.