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Charge by the hour!
Of course, the vast majority, once done, will last a long time.
If the remaining white peaking coils go, I don't think new ones
will change alignment.
Not to mention that this was a great learning experience for me ...
I'd never done a color TV setup since the late 60s,
and those were Heathkits. Doing it again would be faster, but not
easier. For a restoration you don't know whether a problem is a bad
part or adjustment until it is completely fixed, and there are
wrong leads ... like the modulator adjustment below. But the symptoms
it caused were also in part caused by wrong IF and RF alignment.
Two different problems, each of which required the same two different
fixes.
I found another adjustment that needed fixing for "blown whites",
wrong gamma of luma as color came near saturation,
and what looked like poor DC restoration, but
it was not on the TV, it was the video level
on my Blonder-Tongue BAVM modulators. If
set for auto level, which seems to work perfectly on
my Sony LCD monster, and is extremely subtle but there
on my 40's B&W sets, it was causing these problems.
I now have two channels to watch on NTSC: Ch. 6 for
OTA digital, and Ch. 10 for DVD. Hopefully tomorrow I
will have OTA Ch. 39 (HSN) for a few more months.
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