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Originally Posted by tvcollector
...Set powers up, than once a few seconds of warming up, major hum comes from one of the transformers, then sound and screen come on, major wavy pic and color bars, and screen doesn't fill all the way, and then I start to smell something burning... Kinda smells like oil burning...
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That smell was likely from the degauss varistor, the larger disc next to the open thermistor.
The auto-degauss coil, if shut off abruptly, likely will have left the CRT in a "gaussed" state, depending on where on the AC wave the disconnect occured when you pulled the plug (or hit the off switch).