[wa2ise]

I opened the back and pulled the circuit board. AFAICT, the HOT transistor isn't shorted, at least from emitter to collector. I measure 40 ohms both ways from emitter to base, after I pulled two wire jumpers that disconnect the emitter and the base from the rest of the circuit.. It's a 2SC5339 and I looked up the data sheet on line and it turns out it has a built in 45 ohm resistor between these points, so maybe it's not blown..

No cap looks by sight to be spilling its guts. And I tried resoldering the horiz output transformer terminals on the board, but the set still shuts down in a few seconds, as before.

A sticker on the HOT heatsink says: "serial number LE20210034 GP342". Other than that, I don't see any identifications.