Been back on it for a bit, and here is what has been happening.
After my last post I scrounged a replacement slug from the width coil of my 9-T-246 that seems to be the best thing I have on hand. pictures below.
The HV was (and is still) at 20 KV. The dead IF intermitant that was bugging me devolved into a completely dead IF.
I then got too busy to touch the thing for several weeks.
I got back to it over the week end.
The IF has gone back to intermitantly not working from being dead merely by sitting around. I'm fairly sure this set will need an alignment at some point to work right as color sound and monochrome don't seem to lineup as well as they should.
I did not feel like messing with the IF and HV issues, and instead began tweaking the color circuits. It was hard at first because I did not have a nonmetalic alignment screw driver that was long and slender enough for the dual-core transformer let alone two to tweak both slugs at once. So I went to Radio Shack to see if they had those tools available, and let me tell you that I felt like I was in a grocery store that doesn't stock bread when I was told that those tools haven't been on the shelves for a long time! I ended up making my own alignment tools from some used up mechanical pencils I had laying around from the previous quarter of college which were waiting to be thrown out (good thing I didn't get to that). Shown below are my home made alignment tools.
I have the color adjustments a good deal better than before, but there is still much room for improvement.
Think I'll go at it some more tomorrow......I should really get to bed now.