Well I got the coils (all $10 of them) to replace the two ruined ones, and replaced the iffy caps (except for the cans), and the vertical is back to being good, but I'm having trouble getting the color to work.
The barber-poleing with the osc. out of sync is very weak, and with it in what I believe to be sync there is little basically no color. To make matters worse the current crop of tubes ESPECIALLY the 6GH8's in the stages giving me trouble were installed by me after I got the set (Arcanine pulled most of the tubes to try in his CTC-16) so I have another variable to worry about on top of the adjustments of those coils....
This set has been so re-gifted because somewhere along it's way here someone turned a decent roundy into a messed up piece of crap...
I hope I can find a way to sort this mess out...