Thanks Steve, I intend to put up a video of this set playing those nice clips a few of the guys put together of his life. Should be a fitting tribute to our friend, and a nice way to cap off the restoration.
The HV cage is 90% reassembled now. The rewaxed flyback is installed, so are the rectifiers. Thanks to WISCOJIM for providing a new socket, to replace the one that had an ear broken off. All HV wiring has been replaced with 40kv stuff from Belden, hopefully there won't be any sizzling to deal with. I decided to replace the coin base GE brand rectifiers with period correct fat base RCA ones, now all the tubes in the cage (aside from the focus rectifier) are fat base T-12 style glass and it looks killer.
Last issue to deal with is the lack of a focus control. Right now there's just a bleeder network coming off the focus rectifier, a 3A2, with a tap after a few fixed resistors for the line to the CRT. There is around 15 megs of resistance to the string, which is more or less what the schematic calls out besides the fact that 5 megs of it is supposed to be in the control. Anyone have one of those special 5 meg focus pots they could donate? I've tried using a normal pot before (on my CT-100), but they always arc over.
Something like the one in the 621TS should work, but there are other sets using a similar style control.
