[Tubejunke]

Did you replace all of the capacitors with equal or higher working voltage and similar/higher capacity? If you ran into any capacitors with color bands are you sure you got the decimal point in the right place when you identified them? This has often thrown me off. You have to watch out for mfd and mmf. or pico farad ratings here and take note that most schematics make some reference to the difference but it can be easily overlooked.

If I were in your situation I would go back through my work and make sure all of the values are correct. While your at it look at those resistors you say you replaced. A 4.7K and a 470K are only a color band apart. Also there is the chance of a new part being bad. You may want to measure the value of at least the components in the vertical section.

Last you are right, sometimes these sets will make you want to make you want to pull your hair out. I STILL have a 59 Zenith Space Command that I recapped and have had no luck whatsoever with. It should work like new since most of the parts are new. No dice!!

Part of the problem is that many of us are aproaching repair from the parts replacement standpoint as opposed to having a good understanding of exactly what should be going on in various circuits. Also we don't have a lot of the equipment that a professional would have had when techs actually worked on tube sets.

Now I am not being high and mighty here. I am definitly a parts replacer. Yes, I have been into vintage tv and radio for at least 25 years. I have learned a lot in that time about the thory of operation. However I never learned to use things like signal generators, oscilloscopes and the like. I think some of the things that us parts changers get stumped on could quickly and easily be sorted out by a person who can use the tools of the trade. For me its mostly a volt/ohm meter. You can do a WHOLE lot of repair work with just a meter but if it were that simple then a meter what be all that the pro's use.