Sony HMD A220 17" CRT Monitor "pasty" Questions

...viewing numerous posts in various TV forums, I ran across a post in this forum by someone named "pasty" who advised the following: "common for the horizontal output to short in these models is a ...

...above referenced set. It was dead except for a faint "ticking". I found a post in this forum by "pasty" who advises the following: "Common for the horizontal output to short in these models is a ...