Sony KP-7220 Tragedy

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Oh man, I didn't want to make this thread. I'm sorry.

This was seen on the Bellingham Craigslist last month for $60, sold as "working".
No remote or top glass but came with the base projection unit and the massive 72" silver screen with a few small nicks and bruises but still in great shape.
I managed to persuade a friend in the Everett area to pay and pick it up for me and hold onto it until I could collect it this past weekend. When I arrived he had already unbolted the legs from the screen and everything was waiting in the garage. The projection unit was loaded in the car and after verifying that the screen wouldn't scratch or mar up by being handled it was carefully wrapped in a tarp and strapped to the roof with the screen facing down.



The drive was relatively uneventful and the screen didn't make any attempts to make an escape from the roof rack. Unloaded it all late last night and this afternoon managed to unwrap the screen and better look over the projector.

Son of a.....




The silver coating is ruined! The tarp must of been way more abrasive than I expected it to be and simply wrecked the reflective surface. I knew I should of padded the face with sheets of foam before wrapping it up. No gouges however but no idea how to resurface that.




The projector from the outside showed signs of wear (and the above missing components) but all I was going to do was put my Pioneer VP-1000 on top and call it good so that was fine. Inside there was a little bit of dust but everything seemed okay.
Plugged it in and pushed the power button. Heard the high voltage come up, audio came up and saw red and green but the blue was stone dead. Was not able to see if the filament was lit because as I reached to toggle the NORMAL/TEST switch a small lytic cap on the rear board of the red gun puked its guts and I killed the power.
Add insult to injury I seem to of misplaced the four bolts that you used to attach the screen to the stand, so nothing in the set right now actually "works". Additionally, this is another one of those products where it seems you can find the service manual online in PDF form, but you gotta pay to download it. My usual sources of manuals do not seem to have it either. 1200km for another project.

Here's a photo of what the set and (smaller model) screen looked like when it WAS all together and working.