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Framer Dave · 26th Feb 2007, 7:58 pm

I have a Pye B16T and have just acquired a D16T. Both are fitted with liquid filled magnifiers of the familiar kind. Both magnifiers have lost some fluid through leakage from the filler hole, and I need to top them up. When I was a schoolboy solder-monkey in a TV repair shop in the late fifties, I seem to rember being told that they were filled with Liquid Paraffin (the kind used as a laxative)!

Can anybody please confirm this? The last thing I want to do is use an incompatible fluid, let alone anything which would attack the Perspex(?) casing.

26th Feb 2007, 7:58 pm	#1
Framer Dave Rest in Peace Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Near Wrecsam, North Wales Posts: 356	Screen magnifiers - 40s/50s TVs I have a Pye B16T and have just acquired a D16T. Both are fitted with liquid filled magnifiers of the familiar kind. Both magnifiers have lost some fluid through leakage from the filler hole, and I need to top them up. When I was a schoolboy solder-monkey in a TV repair shop in the late fifties, I seem to rember being told that they were filled with Liquid Paraffin (the kind used as a laxative)! Can anybody please confirm this? The last thing I want to do is use an incompatible fluid, let alone anything which would attack the Perspex(?) casing.