"Vintage Mitsubishi"

[Eric H]

Just picked up a 1990 Mitsu 27" from the Salavation Army for $15.

Not something I would usually bother with but this was one of their better ones with Stereo and multiple inputs including S Video.

It has a classic woodgrain cabinet but the difference is that this one uses real wood:D

The Vertical was partly collapsed to about 8" across the center, I figured this is a bad cap, well, more like a dozen bad caps!

You can see little stains under about a dozen small lytics that have oozed their liquid onto the chassis.
I found one of the culprits in the vertical section by touching a sub to the board underneath. Replaced that one cap and now I have a full screen but the linearity is way off on the top half of the screen.

Think I should just shotgun in a dozen caps and see what happens or toss it now? :eek:

[THOR]

When I bought my 51" HDTV I was little surprised to see it was mostly made outta wood (I assume particle board) painted black, weird after hefting so many plastic TV's over the years.

[Eric H]

Mitsu seems to be partial to wood.
I remember their sets from the late 70's early 80's were made out of wood too.

Come to think of it so were some of their Airplanes :D

[kc8adu]

you have more bad caps to find.
also clean off any brown glue that may be on the foil side or on component leads.
that is still a decent set if the crt is good.
bet it looks a funny blue/purple when it is off.
some weird antiglare treatment.