Ford does tend to have some of the crappiest electronics unfortunately, only recently did they make some noticeable improvements IMO.
As for your color purity issue, try rearranging your gear a bit, sounds like a magnet is spoiling it for you somewhere. There is also a chance that the built-in degausser is not doing it's job. If you dont hear a nnoticeable 'oomp' as you turn the set on, there's a chance it's dead. It's usually an easy fix, a simple varistor burns out over time. If you have a tape head demagnetizer or bulk tape eraser, hover it over the screen in a spiral motion and slowly move in a corkscrew motion away from the screen till you are about 4 feet away before shutting off the coil. If that clears up your purity problem, it's definitely a bad degaussing circuit.
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Date: 2006-12-04 04:32 am (UTC)As for your color purity issue, try rearranging your gear a bit, sounds like a magnet is spoiling it for you somewhere. There is also a chance that the built-in degausser is not doing it's job. If you dont hear a nnoticeable 'oomp' as you turn the set on, there's a chance it's dead. It's usually an easy fix, a simple varistor burns out over time. If you have a tape head demagnetizer or bulk tape eraser, hover it over the screen in a spiral motion and slowly move in a corkscrew motion away from the screen till you are about 4 feet away before shutting off the coil. If that clears up your purity problem, it's definitely a bad degaussing circuit.