[pugs5061]

I'm really not expecting the CRT to be bad. I hope to find out this weekend. I bought a CRT tester last Tues on that marketplace everyone loves so much and it should be here tommorow (Hope its ready to go, it was supposed to be!). Once I know the CRT is good I can justify more $$ to complete the TV. If the CRT is not good it will probably slow me down to a crawl. The TV would go into a corner until I found a CRT and I would probably even wait to recap the set. If that is the case I'd be looking for something else, probably a little easier and this time I could check the tube immediatly. I would probably do a better job on the RCA if I had a little more experience anyways. I'm optimistic though! I have been reading and absorbing as much info from here and Antiqueradios.com as I possibly can. The Picto guides are helping a little to. The knowledge you guys posess and the old way of doing things are intriging as hell to me. Twenty or thirty years from now I think this knowledge may become even more scarce and hopefully highly coveted again. Wouldn't it be a shame if the next generation didn't have a choice and had to settle for modern guts in these old cabinets? I'm sure it wouldn't be a matter of understanding the design or TV theory but it is going to be a matter of not having hands on experience. As an example I know very few if any kids, even those studying electronics that can use a soldering iron. My Dad showed me how to use one well before my teens. I'm just hoping sometime soon to have another example of "old school" American Ingenuity to show people that we lost something when we sent so much of our manufacturing overseas and perhaps priorities and mindsets can be changed. I say that as a back handed way of getting my teenage son to understand that old addage "Carpe Diem". Enough of that, this is supposed to be a tech thread!