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NewVista, you can get the rectifier socket loose through the access door of the high voltage cage if you want to take a look. In my case, I could hear but not see the periodic and very fine arching and resultant distortion on the raster.
I was hoping that someone with more experience with these old color sets might be able to tell us what the symptoms would be with the single (1.5Kohm? I think) resistor mounted on the bottom of the rectifier socket being open. I say again, I had HV until I made the mistake of yanking the tube and the pins fell apart. One came out with the tube (pin 4 unused) and pin 5 dropped down as the resistor mentioned above was burned in two. The crt second anode also connects there (pin 5).
I'm dead in the water until I find an appropriate socket to replace mine which is burned from what I assume to be the arching that I could never see. I say arching, but it was more of a hiss than a snapping and was intermittent as well. But so far not a bit of luck finding someone to sell me one.
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