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Originally Posted by roundscreen
If i recall correctly. I put the chassis on it's side. The hi volt cage on the bottom. The yoke wires are short but you can turn the chassis so the wires reach. Please look out for the yoke socket. It moves when you plug the yoke in or out. {Not mounted to well} Convergence wires. hi volt and the crt wires should be long enough. {please be careful of the crt}. Also connect a ground wire to the ground tabs up front were the chassis slides in. For extra protection you can use rope or wire to hold the chassis in place. Tie one end to the chassis and the other to the cabinet. { like when you tie the christmas tree to the wall so the cat can not knock it over}
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I'm not really happy with this construction. The ctc-5-chassis is the heaviest tv-chassis I've seen in my life (and the sets I've seen are unnumbered in the last 30 years). It is still very strange for me. One moment of inattentiveness and the falling chassis hit the neck of the crt, and the game is over.
I see two solutions:
- First I construct a wooden frame for the chassis outside the cabinet, which holds it in a safe way.
- The second solution: I solder some wire at the measure points on the chassis and install a "soldering border" (= correct words? In German we say "Loetleiste") inside the cabinet for the wires. Every wire gets a paper mark with it's connection on the chassis. So I can put the chassis inside again and have measure points for future evaluations. I prefer this second solution.
With the test meters, there is no problem, I have enough, and I have enough connection wires too (in German we say "Krokodilsklemmen"). And if I haven't enough, I ask my 11 year old son... ;-)
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Originally Posted by roundscreen
... Look out for drift:{ big changes in current reading, b+ and hi voltage} I like watching the meters. How the readings change with the action of the picture or when the set warms up. Do this for a week or so . get a feel how the set runs.ED
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Yes, to get a feeling is the most important thing. For every vintage set which I have repaired I needed time to get a feeling for it. At first to understand the schematics, then to watch the set in operating modus. American and German tv sets are very different. The Germans are not so heavy and robust but seem to be more complicated, especially the color hybrid sets.