Color me clueless but...
 

What is this thing? It was in the HV area of a junked Hitachi console, attached to the flyback only by that short piece of wire as I recall. One hold-down point I had to break off as it had fused itself to the chassis. Taking the screw out did nothing to free it.

Looks like a flyback transformer to me.

Is this a trick question? I can tell you that without a doubt, a flyback transformer *is* indeed attached to the little short wire.
jr

No trick, I'm just not used to taking apart sets that old. What I believe was the flyback had a really odd-shaped housing. The 2nd anode lead was coming off that one. Were there ever two-piece flybacks?

I've seen two-piece jobbies in more recent (90s) colour monitors...

The second unit was likely a *tripler* module consisting of a potted assembly of HV diodes and capacitors that takes the AC output from the flyback transformer and produces stepped-up, filtered DC voltage for the second anode of the CRT.
jr

I'm guessing that such a tripler wouldn't be safe to use if the 2nd anode wire had been cut and spliced, as was the case with this set. The thing was in such sorry shape I decided to part it out when I found that. I didn't notice it for a while as the wire had some sort of black tape running most of its length aside from the electrical tape, the former looking like a factory job.

You could probably have coated the splice with a decent blob of silicon caulk and stopped all arcing/corona.

Thanks, I'll keep that in mind. It wasn't a desirable set to me anyway. If only I had a way to test the delta gun CRT I saved from it.

Sounds like he posted a picture of the wrong part.
That said, the lack of a filament winding on the xfmr suggests the "mystery part" was not a not a tube but a tripler.

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