[Yamamaya42]

So far, I have not found any really bad resistors yet, although I have just barely started checking, a few were CLOSE to the upper 20% limit, but not by much, I'm still gonna replace the ones around the brightness & contrast controls with new 2% ones, as well as the ones near the 6GU7 Y-AMPS and H-blanker, and most likely the drop caps near those tubes, as they were REALLY cooked in my CTC-16, and acting up, NOT gonna touch the IF and colorburst/ demod as they seem to be OK.

So, perhaps the dim screen was caused by the weak thermistor, causing power to be shunted through the degaussing coil, though I did not see that in the screen at the time, I guess I will not know until I get the CRT back in and fire it up again.

And once I do that, I can go and check for weak parts in the sweep PCB, as well.