Leaking DEC VR201 monochrome monitor?

[Ian Primus]

Yes. It's the PVA compound leaking out of the picture tube, from
between the faceplate and the tube itself. I see this on lots of
terminals and monitors. You need to remove the picture tube, heat the
faceplate and separate it from the tube, and clean up all the brown
goop, and put everything back together. It's corrosive, and it will
eat traces (this is a big problem on ADM3A terminals, since the goo
leaks onto the circuit board).

This is definitely fixable.

-Ian

On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 10:49 AM, william degnan <billdegnan at gmail.com> wrote:
> I picked up a DEC VR201 display today, it was leaking a highly corrosive
> brown liquid.  So corrosive it burned my skin painfully /  immediately and
> I had to wash hands thoroughly.  Anyone come across a display that leaked a
> corrosive liquid like that?  The display was stored in its original box, so
> I don't think the brown liquid was from something stored on top of it, but
> I don't know for sure.
>
> Bill
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