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 <[email protected]> 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 > > -- > @ BillDeg: > Web: vintagecomputer.net > Twitter: @billdeg <https://twitter.com/billdeg> > Youtube: @billdeg <https://www.youtube.com/user/billdeg> > Unauthorized Bio <http://www.vintagecomputer.net/readme.cfm>
