Hi Mark, i'm afraid it's a total loss, that is: this version is the worst one they ever made: because of aging the conductive layer comes off. i've seen many of them 'fixed' with silver paint but also that comes off after some time, makes a shortcut, so the thing won't work again and drain the battery. The nicest version is the

Hi, i'm afraid 'in your dreams' is the answer to a replacement belt: enough broken ones out there (it's some kind of plastic unfortunately) and as far as i know none available. i'm thinking along the lines of a 'tractor-belt' like they use in printers etc and use it inside out but these are usually too thick...anyone who

Als jij die bieder bent, het 'kavel' loopt pas over 1 dag + 13 uur af dus ik neem aan dat de verkopen daar op wacht... Ik heb die set weken geleden op MP gezien: zouden professioneel gerepareerd zijn (lijkt nu rubber randjes te hebben ipv foam randjes). Zien er op het zicht goed uit, ik heb altijd mijn twijfels bij het vervangen van die randjes

So i'm correct if it's a 'bar' kind of thing running from top to bottom of the screen... Well, it's no magnetism problem and no tube problem also. What doe sit do on normal tv reception ?? It sounds like a 'hum' caused by the (type of) video cable you use. Try another source (tv or the dvd with a good scart cable or so) to

Well....a small correction here: every colour tv has a built in degaussing (otherwise in a few weeks the picture would look like one piece of colourfull art / mess) and what you did (with the on/off) is actually correct. What's not clear is what is the 'fade' you describe ? A tube influenced by mangetism gives coloured spots, usually at

Yeah, i think i can give it a try with a normal power supply to try the 'heather' trick on the broken T8111 and see.... Don't exactly know when i have time (and a power supply) for this but will surely post my findings :), it's very interesting though reading your experience and the way you deal with it, especially overhere the Avant

Thanks Marc for the clear explanation. What it also needs to find an affordable replacement tube is specs of the original and replacement and the thing is: (well, at least with the TVs overhere) up 'till the Philips widescreen tube with it's troubles we never ever experience broken tubes, the 4:3 ones, i fixed all kinds of tv's over the

Marc, if the only 'trick' here is overheating wouldn't just putting AC of about 9v on the filament be sufficient ? Where does the analyzer come in and does it have to be this model ? I'm asking out of interest, i fix tv sets for a long time and nowadays Avants with tube problems are common and the same problem for everyone: useless the

Alex, i'm afraid you're very right: tube going down...and unfortunately officially unrepairable. I say officially because i while ago i saw ads of companies fixing them with tapping on it while using a tube regenerator but recently i haven't heard anymore of this and i think if it works at all it's probably a temp solution. Now depending

....That is, if it's a 100 Hz (type 83XX), a 50 Hz (T81XX) becomes even more expensive because they put a different type of tube in which requires an adapted deflection board. Now to my knowledge Philips lowered the price of new tubes to about 200 euro but B&O increased the prices....but so far i didn't find an alternative source to buy