Thanks for the explanation Bob!
I remember that Jr_tech wanted to know how the getthers looked. They look silver and dark gray to me....
I decided to pull the CRT yesterday here are some pictures.
I've also slowly been cleaning 57 years worth of grime off the chassis.
I've been recaping too. Here is the completed IF board.
The two ceramic cased ones I managed to restuff, but the rest had "bakelitized" paper tubes the ends of which my soldering iron could not melt or even soften! I had to double up to get two of the values....I replaced a .027 with a .022 and a .0047 in parallel, and I replaced a .056 with a .047 and a .01 in parallel ( I know this not wonderfully exact, but it is an improvement over the .068 maroon drop that was in there).
I also remounted the IF shield after the recap.
With luck in the next couple of days I'll have the recapping done good enough to do a test power up.
I have dug out of my stocks all the tubes this set needs except for the Damper, H output, HV rect., the 6CL6s, the 6AN8s, and the 6AZ8s (I managed to find a majority of RCA branded used and NOS tubes for this set
). I'm going to sift through my unboxed tubes and see if I have any. If not I'll see if nostalgiaair lists any sub types that I might have.