I did a little more tinkering with the set this morning and found that I could get a surprisingly stable picture despite the overlapping image which I'm still looking into. The contrast and brightness isn't too impressive, either. Turning the contrast, brightest, and screen register all seem to do the same thing. They just wash out the image. In any case, I only ordered two resistors that I was pretty sure needed to be replaced from looking over it before, but these were mainly in the horizontal section. There appears to be a couple of 10% resistors that are out of spec, especially a 680k that measures more like 40k if even that. Unfortunately, I ordered only what I thought I needed and I have no replacements on hand. If "Sync Clip" and "sync separator" mean the same thing, I think I'm looking in the right places.
I've been meaning to take some voltage readings in this area, but I wanted to ask about leaving the high voltage out of it. I don't think I need to run the CRT at HV to take those measurements, and I was hoping it would be safe to pull the 1B3 or something to that affect. I just wanted to make sure first. Discharging the CRT seems to be no challenge at least. It doesn't spark near as much as I'd feared.
Now here's something I found:
On the left, the original audio output transformer and to the right is one I pulled from a derelict RCA radio chassis ( Model 8R74 ). The schematics for my set say that the AOT should measure 580 ohms across the "in" side, and .5 ohms on the "out" side. The one I pulled out measures (?) million ohms across the "in" and .8 across the "out" and is clearly burnt. I can't find any faults in the wiring. It was burnt when I got it, judging by pictures I took then, so I'd say it was the bad capacitors.
Now this other AOT worked in the other radio and measures .5 "out" and has 3 wires on the "in" side. There's a green, a striped red and white, and a red. Green to striped, it's 582, green to red it's 595, striped to red is 14. As best I can tell, that striped wire went to the rectifier of the radio. What I'm wondering is since the resistances seem to coincide closely enough. could I use this transformer and omit the extra wire somehow or another?