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From: paquette@cpsc.ucalgary.ca (Trevor Paquette)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: 1084s goes poof. Film at 11.
Summary: A possible fix
Message-ID: <106@cs-spool.calgary.UUCP>
Date: 28 Oct 88 17:27:34 GMT
References: <8097@gryphon.CTS.COM>
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In article <8097@gryphon.CTS.COM>, hrlaser@pnet02.cts.com (Harv Laser) writes:
> 
>  
> The 1080 lasted for 2.5 years, snapping and arcing, and occasionally going
> so far as to shut itself off (requiring a cycling of the power switch
> after a couple minutes' wait to get a picture back).  The hotter and
> more humid the weather, the worse the 1080 got.
> 
> Finally two weeks ago the 1080 arc'd and snapped for the last time, the
> screen went black and that was all she wrote.  I left it off half a day
> and upon applying power again, still black.
> 
  .....

> Harv Laser, Sysop, The People/Link AmigaZone.  Plink: CBM*HARV
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  I had the same problem with my 1080, though not a severe as yours. It
would pop about every 2 hours or so. What is did was this:
   1) Open it up.
   2) Get your handy dandy low power dirt sucker and try to get all the loose dust
   3) With a damp cloth start getting rid of as much dust and dirt as you can.
   4) close it.

 I did this and it has not popped since. This was about 5 months ago.
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