[jeyurkon]

I was hoping to finish up the set tonight. That was too optimistic. There was way too much wrong with the HV section and I need to get some parts.

Originally I claimed there was almost no work done on this set. That was clearly wrong. As I dug into it I found a mixture of high quality repairs and some pretty ham fisted stuff.

The ceramic disc I showed in another thread actually tested good. I replaced it anyhow. The bumble bees were all toast. A 100 ohm wire-wound was open. A 56K 2 Watt reads 100K. The factory manual shows it as 56K, the markings are for 56K, but the Sam's shows it as 5.6K. I bet that might have confused a few people.

I cleaned up the oil that leaked from the 10KV 0.005uF cap.

I removed the HV section from the bridge to make it easier to work on and minimize physical risk to the HV transformer.

There was an incredible cold solder joint on the lead that goes to the feedback winding on the HV transformer. It was just flopping around in the solder around it. I don't know how they managed that because the lead was well tinned. They had a ball of solder about the size of a pea.

I'll post some more photos once I finish the HV and before I install it back into the bridge.

John