Swapping CRT

[Outland]

Should I discharge the CRT?

[Electronic M]

Originally Posted by Outland

Should I discharge the CRT?

If it has been off for over a day or two you probably don't need to. Many SS sets have HV bleeders and don't hold a charge after a few mins but some don't. It is not like the charge its self will harm you (though what your reflexes do as a result might). Your call really.

[zeno]

Look up the yoke part ##'s if the same leave the yoke
& magnet assy on the neck. That will speed things up & you
will only have to adjust the grey scale, focus & G-2 at most.

73 Zeno
LFOD !

[wa2ise]

RCA sometimes glued the yoke to the CRT, but they usually had a sticker saying that that was done. RCA also used a magnetic strip wrapped around the CRT neck, between the yoke and the CRT neck pins. At the factory, the convergence is adjusted by a machine that, once convergence is good, will "record" the required magnetic polarity and strength into this strip, like if it was a piece of tape from say a cassette. If the yoke part numbers are the same, I'd just keep the yoke, CRT and convergence adjustments together when you transplant the CRT into the other set.