Good morning folks!
Thanks for the further tips! Much appreciated!
After sleeping on it, I see I'm going to have to start a more methodical diagnostic process other than the panicky/scattered/disasterous issue driven stuff I did yesterday...
I'm going to have to dig out my Photofact on this set..hopefully I put it in the files with the rest of the schematics..when I did this TV it was pretty early in my restoration days and I didn't have the file yet. If I stashed it somewhere else, THAT might be a challenge!
One issue I've always had with this set is not having the proper connector for the CRT...or perhaps I only have the "inner" part. The bakelite housing has always been missing, so there is no stress relief on the solder joints. Thus, the wires have always been prone to coming off. That's what happened yesterday when I was moving stuff around. It didn't help that when our cat was younger, a couple years ago, he would get up in there and knock stuff around.
When a wire came off the connector yesterday, the tube went dark, and that's what started the whole "tube base coming off the neck" snowball..the tube has never come back to life since. But yes, the heater is glowing and continued to do so for well over an hour, and the neck never got hot beyond what I ever experienced. It gets warm, but one can hold onto it forever if one wants to. What I'm hoping is that perhaps when that wire fell off, it touched something that took out that circuit..hopefully it did NOT touch something and take out the CRT!
And I had such a good picture until then...
So, yes. My next step will be to check voltages at the connector and make sure they are correct. I'd MUCH rather it be a circuit within the TV than a bum CRT! Even with my very limited experience, I can likely fix the TV...but if I'm correct, there is still nobody on the planet that can rebuild a CRT.
Last I'd read, the Early Television Museum had decided not to rebuild tubes commercially.
It might be a couple days before I can get back to it. My wife and I are taking our RV out to Navajo Lake State Park today until Thursday to try to get some fishing in while we still have some nice weather, before winterizing the thing for the season. We've already had a few nights below freezing (it's 25 as I type this), but the next few days are supposed to be warm and sunny (high 60's). Fall is definitely upon us here in northern New Mexico!
PS: That red stuff between the tube base and the glass neck is nail polish. I'd read that nail polish makes a good glue to re-attach loose tube bases. My wife doesn't know where her clear nail polish is...so red it is!