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Offline redrumloa

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Re: 1084S Question
« on: January 19, 2010, 04:59:12 PM »
Quote from: koaftder;539124
pop it open and blow out all the dust. Take a slightly damp rag and clean off the accumulated crap on the back of the tube where the wires harness it. Keep one hand in your back pocket when you're working on the thing.

 
noooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

do not do this unless you are an experienced technician!! There is potentially lethal voltage at the back of the tube!!!
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Re: 1084S Question
« Reply #1 on: January 19, 2010, 07:30:51 PM »
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Contact cleaner is probably a good idea though I never used it because I've seen contact cleaner degrade some kinds of plastic, probably would have helped a lot when working on sets folks have smoked around. All that greasy crap from cigarettes coats everything and the dust has a party in it.

Helping out is a good thing. IMHO you just have to be careful with advice on forums. There is a long history in the Amiga community of people with no electronics experience misunderstanding advice and toasting expensive hardware, so my first fear was someone putting a wet rag to an energized tube.
 
Us oldtimers remember thinsg like an AmigaOne user prying SMD chips off his board with a screw driver, or something along those lines. Voiding his warranty and toasting the $1000 board.
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