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VCRs are just about the worst video source-I had a tv set that was giving me vertical troubles last week, only to find that it was just the tape I was playing. Once I changed tapes, the problem stopped. VCRs can also create weird smearing effects at the top of the picture and all sorts of other fun things. Before you do anything else, get a DVD player or use your cablebox for a video source. Not sure what to tell you about the signal coming through on channel 6, though...
If your picture is locking on vertical that way, with a "stable" double image, something is making your oscillator run off frequency. It is a pretty common problem, so some voltage checks from the sync separator to yourt vertical output will hopefully find the problem.
The burnt output transformer might have been caused by running the set with bad caps, or maybe something got miswired-definitely check for that possiblity before putting a new one in.
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