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Remember that in my original post that I mentioned mainly just questioning the blue gun being slightly weaker than the other two, which are about equal. I am glad to know that I can bump the filament voltage up without worry of having them go open, but I don't think that I will do it overnight. Sorry, I'm with ctc17 there; just too risky! With my luck I would wake up to a no glow situation and that would be really bad. I didn't really ever think that my tube was bad, but if several people chimed in and said that the blue gun being slightly weaker is the first sign of "roundie" death; then I might be a little worried. I'm saving up to get the necessary capacitors that I suspect are causing the HOT to have a red hot plate and smoke from underneath. That way I can follow Doggie's advice and hopefully take a look at the picture. I just hope that there aren't a bunch of other color related issues that will keep me from actually seeing a reasonable color picture. I guess if worse comes to worse I can look at each color individually for brightness in regards to any concerns with the guns. I think they will be fine and just get a little stronger with some use. Call it what you may, but I have seen B&W tubes get much better after several hours of use.
Anyway, I'm just not used to the many issues that come along with a color picture I guess. I used to own a couple of round tube color sets as a kid because they were pretty cheap and reliable. The situation is different trying to resurrect a set that hasn't been used since the late 70s
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