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Originally Posted by Electronic M
NOS usually will work, but most vintage parts are selenium rectifiers so reliability isn't guaranteed.
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Chester had an NTE118 in stock so I went over and got one for 3 bucks. You were right that it's selenium, but it worked. The ones you linked to are cheap, so when I need to place an order, I'll grab some just to have.
The focus voltage on the yellow wire went up to a hair under 6KV. That brought it into focus, but the control still needs to be all the way up, so I can't tell if it's as good as it's going to get since I can't dial it in. It still needs a lot of tweaking, and most of the controls need to be cleaned. I'll let it run and at least do a setup on it and see how it goes.