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   Charles Lucas to All   
   Re: VCR plays color tapes in B&W only?   
   06 Aug 22 11:46:32   
   
   From: charlesandmilly@gmail.com   
      
   > > The article to which you repled was posted April 15, 2000.   
   > >   
   > With a problem like that, my first shot would be to sparingly,   
   > start hitting single parts in that area with cold spray, and see if the   
   > color came back.   
   > If not, then start troubleshooting. That even had success during the 1980s!   
   >   
      
   Another technique is to heat the IC up with a hot hair dryer to see if you can   
   get   
   it to act up that way. This worked during the 1980's also. Overheating   
   microprocessors   
   beyond their temperature coefficients can be dodgy... They can be tricky.   
      
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