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Old 05-23-2017, 03:22 PM
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Just as I was about to give up, I found one mixed in with my octal tubes

It certainly draws more current, but no HV at first then it suddenly sprang to life and I got a nice, bright image back. At least until I turned it off and back on. No HV, drawing 200mA and starting to red plate!


I popped it back in the tester and found it has a short. I was able to tap the side a few times and clear it out.
Put it back in the set and it has been been working without trouble for a couple hours.

Even so I'm not crazy about leaving it in the set so took a chance and bought a NOS tube on ebay for $14. I got lucky and it works great!

The image now fills the screen, vertical linearity is pretty good and no more streaking.

I do still need to cleanout the HV cage and fabricate a shield for the HV shunt regulator. Eventually, I'll pull the chassis and go over it too.

Even though it's working pretty well, it's got issues. Like I sporadically loose vertical sync, and focus control is at one extreme, occasional arcing and dirty controls.
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