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Thanks to some Video karma members and Just Radios, i have started work on the Philco TV.
The first thing was to clean up the chassis, then insert all tubes except the 5U4 rectifier tube so could power up without the HV. So i ran up the variac up slowly over like 45 min just to see if the tubes lit and the power trans did ok without heating up.
After that went ok i inserted the 5U4 and did a slow power up over an hour and a half and was rewarded with a raster.
After that and getting schematics and a service manual I ordered replacement caps form Just Radios, they did not have all the cap values i needed but i decided to place the order to get started.
The caps came in on Thursday and i decided to take time this long weekend to start recapping in stages, replace 5 then power up to make sure no harm was done.
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