Thanks for the wisdom and hope my tube is still good, I sold off my larger tube tester and now I am regretting it ! Yea, Barstow is the pitts but yeck I love the room ( 4ea. 4 car garages) I have and lack of traffic so I must point out a couple good things
I'll test the tube out and then do the seperation deal if it is good. I've read that Curtis used better caps in their sets so I'll see if it was just advertising bull or the real deal ?? I do have some cap replacing in the audio amp right off. I have not tried to fire the TV up yet, I wanted read up and do it correctly instead of a Rambo approach. The chassis sure looks like a RCA so I'm thinking they had a deal with them. I'll post some pictures when it drops below 100 outside. I have not played with one of these sets since the 80's, I do remember they had a nice picture. The big deal is talking my wife into me bringing this monster into the house, she does like the cabinet, I think it would be cool to watch the good ole TV shows on it.
Eric..