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Originally Posted by jr_tech
Another possibility would be that the focus coil could have shorted to ground.
jr
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I don't remember seeing any wires for the focus coil seperate from the yoke. Should I?
Also I am curious. one of two things was happening. Either the rectifier tube was getting shorted or a ten watt 2500 ohm resistor was arcing to the chassis. It is one of those long metal resistors that is mounted onto the chassis and has a flat piece of metal that is folded over to cover it. If the rectifier tube did not short the resistor started arcing to the chassis itself from the wires inside of it. It had two leads so it was not grounded per se. Could this be the culprit?
I did take my electolytic caps out and test them at fair radio. I could not find a heathkit cap checker which I am used to. I had to use a sprague but I am not sure if it is functioning perfectly. That being said two of the 100mf caps seemed to not form right. On the 6ma. setting they held 150 volts instead of dropping to zero as they charged up. I grabbed 2 more and they did the same. I went to the bin and opened a new bag and they dropped down to about 5 volts or so. Plus after they were charged they had a loud snap if I shorted them on some metal and the first set really did not snap very loud. I am hoping this is the problem ......Really wish I had the heathkit checker because I know how to "read"it.