Need help turning old tv on

Ghostsanonymous · May 5

I have an old RCA tv with no remote, and the power button is broken. It was working fine, although always on, before we plugged in a tv box and turned the tv off. We recently got a new tv and paired the tv box to the new one before turning the RCA on again. So now I have no way I know to turn it on. I really don't want to throw away a perfectly fine tv. Any help would be appreciated.

Godlygamer23 · May 5

How was it turned on before?

da na · May 5

Looks like if you found something small and wide enough and also conductive, you could jam it down in that power button hole to bridge the contacts. Those two sets of gold pins would need to be connected in some way - paperclip, tweezers, etc...

Ghostsanonymous · May 5

2 minutes ago, da na said:

Looks like if you found something small and wide enough and also conductive, you could jam it down in that power button hole to bridge the contacts. Those two sets of gold pins would need to be connected in some way - paperclip, tweezers, etc...

I did it with my ltt screw driver. I also found a new button strip for it on amazon I'm gonna buy. Thank you for your suggestion.