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This was quite frightening ! Not because the set caught fire but because it happened after the set was switched off!
I watched a couple of episodes of Dr Who on the set and then switched off. About 10 minutes later while luckily I was still in the room just as I thought i could smell 'something' the smoke alarm in the workshop went off...
Peering into the back of the set I was horrified to see flames! I spun it around, wrenched the back off and blew the flames out. At that point it stank and smoked. Before there had been no visible smoke when the back was on and there had been no signs of picture disturbance when the set was on.
Panic over, it was only a small burn up but it could have quickly got worse! The set spent the night in the carport!
After a few days against the workshop radiator today I put it on the bench and had a look.
One of the mounting brackets on the tripler had burned up, this in turn had set fire to the rubber grommet and burning plastic had dripped onto the Boost capacitor.
I would have expected some arcing to have taken place if it was the EHT spraying that had caused the ignition but there wasn't any noise, Nothing!
Also I was watching the set it's not as if it was running in the workshop unattended .
This could have been nasty! I have a scrap timebase chassis that came with the set so a replacement tripler is no problem but I think once it is repaired I will buy a second smoke alarm which will be mounted directly above the set!