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Old 04-02-2013, 05:41 AM
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Thought I'd share this....

I replaced tubes in the one CTC-36 parts set that I got from Bryan (bgadow), and managed to get a faint picture with bad foldover at the bottom, and no sound. Okay, well, let's try and save this set....

Figuring that I could start with a recap of the set to see how far that'd take me, I pulled the chassis last night. When you know how, it's child's play to do, just remove the yoke and convergence board first, then unbolt the tuner, and everything kinda slides right out

Underneath, this is what I saw. Ugh. Note the jumper wire unceremoniously tucked under the chassis on the right hand side bypassing the circuit breaker

I was surprised that the jumpered caps didn't short something out on the underside. There's quite a bit of rust on the chassis, but I still think I can save this thing.
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