Everything appears to be sound except for convergence, the only reason he was selling it was that he just upgraded to a big LCD flat panel.
The convergence on the TV is screwed up, so first I went into the menu's convergence setting's which were minimal and didn't help me much. Then I downloaded the service manual for it and found where the convergence controls were.
Convergence control board->

At first I was terrible at convergence, my picture got worse and worse...But then I got better and slowly but surely the image started to become converged.
One problem though, something about the convergence is really screwed up, sometimes the screen will flicker and the image will become much darker, and then all the colors will be mis-aligned. But it will pop back in a bit to the original convergence.
As of now convergence is a slow process because the screen keeps "popping" back and forth between the dark screen and light screen. I'm unsure as to whether this problem will persist once the convergence is fixed and nothing touches the board.
When I put pressure on the convergence board, or parts of it, this problem seems to occur.
Does anyone have any knowledge about fixing this sort of thing? Would a heat gun maybe loosen up some solder joints? And the internals of the actual RPTV are really dusty, do you cleaning the dust out might help?
I'm thinking it might be better to just salvage any parts and put a DIY in there like SPK did. But that is a lot of work, and money.





