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Phil,, I am going to take your advice and not work on this myself. I did put together a light bulb type variac and do an initial powerup with a 25 watt bulb. Watched real close and did not smell anything or see any smoke. Could not see any tubes glowing though. Stepped up to a 40 watt bulb. After a little bit I saw tubes glowing, I continued to watch it closely. Turned the channel selector to local station and I had sound. Thought I would go for a picture and turned brightness up for the screen. No antenna but there is a picture which I have attached. Feeling good about it and detecting no real heat, nor smoke, or bad smells, I think this set is ready to go to a local shop. They will fix old sets, but they dont like completely dead ones. So I will let them recap it. My wife can now have the kitchen back,, I was doing all this while watching the Indy 500 and wanted to be in the house to watch it on the widescreen.
Dan
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