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Hi Ralph. If this were easy, it wouldn't be an accomplishment or as much fun. I eventually got my 325F completely working, as good as new. It was really frustrating for a long time but I stuck to it and learned a lot and eventually succeeded. It gave me the confidence to move forward on to other TVs.
Wa2ise, the Aquadag coating is intact and ohms out to all of the chassis sections correctly (it's grounded).
Eric, the focus-magnet ground wire is connected and ohms out correctly.
Wiseguy, you were prob'ly right. Spinning the CRT a few degrees might have worked, but it wasn't easy putting it in in the first place (mounted separately to the cabinet, not to the chassis, in an awkward and hard to reach cradle).
Jordan, I recapped my Beltron CRT restorer today. Very cool device. It had 2 bad electrolytics, 2 burned out bulbs, one bulb vibrated out of its socket, and the interrupt switch contacts were dirty. After taking care of those, I believe it's 100%.
I had a no-emission 12LP4 I tried on the "Admiral Roundie from Hell" last summer and it was just a black screen. I put it in the basement for "someday". I used it as the "guinea pig" for my first CRT restoration attempt. In phase one, it had a 0.1 emission and fell off immediately upon pressing the interrupt switch (no life test). I left it warm up for about 5 minutes and it eventually maxed out at about 2.8 and still dropped off way too fast. I went to phase two and it never lit up the cleaning lights. So I went to phase 3. Three cycles of 85 to 65 (as called for in the instructions). Back to phase two and then phase one. It now has 9.5+ emission and holds the life test for ten seconds. It tests as new. I'm excited about this and can't wait to see its bright picture.
So I tried the same operation on the "snapping" 10BP4 in my Capehart. It cleaned the shorts in phase 2, already had an 8.5+ emission reading on phase 1, so I didn't do step 3. I fired up the TV set. No more snapping, works great.
So my first 2 hookups to the Beltron were 2 resounding successes. Very nice.
Attached is 2 shots of the Capehart. Obviously some linearity issues, but nice to see most of the circuits are up and running.
Will recap the radio this week and get it back in the loop. This set should be a keeper. Eventually. Lots of cabinet refinishing work. But will be nice someday. More later...
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