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Originally Posted by Kevin Kuehn
This is my favorite hack repair so far - Looks like someone snapped off a section of a couplate to replace a 5000pf capacitor in the sync separator circuit. It has .003 penciled in the upper left hand corner. At least they put some corona dope on the edge for insulation.

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The original owner of the set must've quit using the set, years ago. There's a lot of nasty capacitors that need replacing. It looks like a ratty junk was used for replacement parts, which you were referring to.
What EIA code is on the CRT? I don't think it's a RCA sourced tube.