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Hi everybody!
I'm sorry to hear about this mishap with the flyback transformer, I think it's one of the worst "oh no!" moments.
I don't know the color flybacks, but I rewound some B&W ones without problems, and from what I saw, they are less critical than one may be led to believe. I even rewound a couple that were wave-wound in a more conventional "layer" winding, these still work flawlessly. In my Bush TV22 I rewound both the primary (bad enamel on the magnet wire crumbling away, so I decided to fix it) and the EHT winding (this one was wave wound and covered in tar, but the acid in the tar corroded the copper). As a result the TV works very good, I'm 600-700 volts short on the EHT, unfortunately I ran out of wire while rewinding. Using a test pattern, I cannot detect image distortion or ringing, so I'm really happy with the results!
A question for John Folsom, if I may ask: what kind of substance do you use to keep together the winding when you pi-wind? Now I have a wave winding machine too and experimented with some shellac, it works, but it's quite slow to set.
Thanks
Giulio Maiocco
P.S.: Sorry about my so-so English...
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