UPS stopped by about 6 hours ago, been recapping ever since. When I was done, I slid the chassis into the cabinet and held my breath....
3....2....1....
Liftoff!
At first I got nothing but the same horizontal line I had at the house in Skokie (no vertical deflection), but I found the wire feeding B+ to the vertical output had fallen off under the chassis. Tacked it back on, and away we go. Still a lot more to do at this point, but colors on the screen are very encouraging. It means 99% of the circuits are working, but the annoying stuff has yet to be done. All the pots are scratchy, and that means more endless hours with a can of Deoxit.
I'm learning to hate that.
Also, HV is pretty weak. I only get like 18kv, should be a solid 20. Gonna try tube rolling to see if there are any improvements to be had, and run the horizontal setup procedure. Following that, it needs an alignment. Color bars only come in at the far end of the fine tuning knob, which is the same point audio goes wonky. Think I'll tackle that last...I hate alignments. More tomorrow, I'm pretty beat.