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Originally Posted by Yamamaya42
The current FBT in there is still all original, no mods, I probably won't mess with it until something happens to it, then change to the NOS one and take time trying to fix it, if it can be.
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Tom and I were actually talking about the same thing. Most of the flys arced from the 3A3 cap socket to the core through the outer covering. A few would show a blackened area through the donut denoting a shorted turn.
Back when these TVs were everyday runners, a lot of people would let the TV run when it started arcing, maybe thinking it was antenna interference and wouldn't shut them off until the telltale smoke and stench appeared. By then it was often too late. I would see them with a totally smoked flyback and a burned 6JE6.
It's unlikely you or any collector will leave this TV running unattended or not immediately jump to your feet to shut it down if you hear arcing and see the distress in the screen. At that point, you can cut the outer red jacket off the fly where it arced through, clean it thoroughly, dry it, and put on the sensor safe type RTV (regular RTV will cause corrosion from the acetic acid).
If it were mine, I wouldn't use the new fly unless the original couldn't be salvaged.
John