skier

yeah, another dead TV thread.

Alright. I have this 20 year old TV that's just gone quits on me. It's an RCA colortrak from '85... Holy crap, this thing's older than I am.

Anyways, it moved up with me from my parent's basement last year to my apartment. About 5 months back the screen began to flicker occasionally. I figured no problem, it's an old tv, things happen. But about 2 weeks ago the flickering got longer and longer until the crisis point yesterday. I had figured out that slapping the top of the TV restored the loose connection or whatever it was and it stopped the flickering for a while (20 minutes). But yeasterday I hit it and it just died. Totally.

What I want to do is take it apart and look for that loose connection so I can solder it back together- and maybe fix my TV.

I wanted to ask about what sort of things I should watch out for in this old TV. Capacitors, anything that could be holding a charge and zap me. Also, if I could ground them without damaging anything.

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