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Wow thank you so much for that! Tonight’s tale…replaced the fuse and found the probable cause for the low HV. The replacement flyback is NOS but looking more closely at it, the cap clip lead for the 6BG6 was barely hanging on to its solder point by a couple of strands of the wire. It had been covered by heat shrink and when I pulled that back I discovered it. Resoldering that connection resulted in the HV going up to 10KV. I had full deflection in both orientations. Then…another disaster. I smelled smoke and saw light from under the chassis from around the AC line in plug close to the power transformer. I still had full B+, an image on the screen and a stable horizontal waveform. I quickly shut things down and investigated it I couldn’t see any evidence of it problem. I turned it back on and got the same magic emanation. My concern of course is the transformer but there was no discoloration around the port for the wires and no hot spots. The B+ and the screen image came up fine again. Tomorrow I’ll have to power it up without the CRT and yoke on edge so I can identify the source. This chassis has had extensive work done on it over its lifetime. I don’t think more than a couple of caps are original and there’s lots of solder blobs on poorly done work. The adventure continues!
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