True, but they are heavy! I had a bad resistor in the power supply too. Can you remove the internal antenna so the CRT will come out without hitting it ?
Here's my recapping progress so far. I've focused mainly on the vertical and horizontal circuits. Still a few caps left and lots of out of spec resistors.
Here's my homebrew shorting bar made from octal tube pins and a scrap of wire. This is needed to operate the TV without the radio.
Similar to the Dumont RA-113, this set leaves almost all the TVs tubes running while in radio and phono mode. The filament juice is only cut to the 6X5 LV rectifier, 6AU6 AGC and 6BG6 HOT.
I found my problem quickly with a basic voltage check on the 6K6 output tubes. I had 67 volts on the cathode because I hooked up the new 270 ohm resistor to pin one (unused) instead of pin 2 (cathode )
Hurray! An image and sound although both are weak. Also the tuner is nearly impossible to use. I had to do a lot of rocking to get anything on the screen.
Cleaning the tuner contacts
Much better after tuner cleaning
After a bit of tweaking the fine tuning, focus, contrast and brightness. Sound is very weak. I suspect bad micas in the IF cans or the alignment is off.
