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Originally Posted by Lord Nikon
If it's within the year, send it in for repair, complain that it emits a high pitched whistle.
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Unfortunately it's not a "fault" as such, it's just the sound of the video heads spinning and can be dealt with by re-siting it to direct the sound elsewhere (and it doesn't affect most people)
I actually bought it because it was a Which? Magazine "Best Buy" and, apart from the whistle from the heads it's a damn good piece of kit.
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(electrical appliances are run on smoke, when you see it escape from the appliance, the chances are it won't work so well)
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ITYM "Magic blue smoke". If it gets out, you have to take it to the engineer so they can put some new smoke in
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As a matter of thought though, what make and model is your old TV?
[edit] looking at the picture, it looks like a Ferguson TX series, or the ITT version of it...
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Nope that's the one that I inherited from the previous owners that I'm using as a substitute (it's actually branded as a Matsui, but having looked at a whole bunch of TVs today, I'm pretty damn sure that most of them would have exactly the same innards and just a slightly different styling/ badge on the outside)
The TV that's gone on the blink is a Ferguson 36k2. I actually inherited it from my grandmother and it's at least 15 years old!!
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usually there are a couple of variable resistors on the board inside it, one marked VERT and one marked HORIZ which govern picture size, if the vert one fails the picture drops to about 1 pixel high, and they are easy to replace
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What actually seemed to happen was that there was a duff connection, the first few times it happened I managed to get it to work by giving it a thump (ah, percussive maintainance!) but then even that wouldn't work.
I did take a look inside, but I'm not very familiar with the innards of TVs and didn't want to start buggering around with potentially dangerous bits!
I may have another look and see if I can find those resistors tomorrow.