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Just replaced a bad fuse (it was testing as an intermittent) and found a cold solder joint on the main pc board. I did a slow power up on the variac and got great sound and a vertically squished picture with a very strong raster! Looks like it'll be a winner after a little tlc and recap.
There has been work done on this chassis before-a number of caps were replaced with orange drops and yellow polys. These were all done without removing the pc board so the work is a little rough. The audio output transformer has also been replaced, and that is very sloppily wired in-just some twist connectors to hook it back up to the speaker. I checked the flyback for melted wax, and found this one to have a hard red candy shell around the flyback donut. No wax to be found. I'm guessing this was also a replacement as well. The band around the crt has been replated, the other brass pieces have not been and are in just okay shape. The little brass end caps on the crt stand are also missing. The antenna and back are also absent, however, she gave me the little brass cup that held the antenna as well as a piece of angle iron with an HV warning on it-although I don't know where that would go...
Since this is such a common set amongst us AK tv folks, does anyone have a SAMS that I could use? I'll donate the money I would have spent on the SAMS to AK as a fair trade.
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