Well I replaced some caps and brought it up on a variac. Aside from pretty bad HOT redplating
that went unnoticed for a minute or two it seems to be doing okay. I'll try it with a signal source tomorrow, but I'm already pretty sure I'll get sound as the white noise from the speaker was definitely affected by changing channels on the VHF tuner.
Once that is done I'll try to figure out what is the deal in the horizontal section(maybe that roached VDR is the issue).
I should probably look into getting the sam's for it as I can only fly blind for so long.