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Yeah, Laura was the Zenith roundie. I saw her running when I went to pick up Troy.
Troy had a long service history: before I got him, he had already been worked over, and among other issues, I found a miswired electrolytic cap and a backwards video detector diode. He also had a shorted yoke and a bad flyback. Replaced those, and he ran better, but horizontal hold wouldn't lock. Eventually replaced everything in the horizontal circuit, and since vertical was a bit twitchy, did that too. This got it to a point that it would run, but with the still occasional loss of horizontal lock. It would also occasionally lose hv, and dim down to nothing after running for a half hour or so. Never found the problem before the fly just went snap! and died. This was only the 3rd tv I had ever worked on, and I learned A LOT tearing Troy apart and putting him back together again. Given that the crt looked and tested new, but was still the original Olympic branded one, I'm gonna guess this set didn't run so hot when it was new.
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