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Well I took this set to work today and tore it completely apart.
When they dropped it on it's face it did a few bad things,
1: it chipped the face of the CRT, not a big deal one minor chip, I can live with it.
2: it broke the plastic mounting lugs on one corner of the bezel, again not a big deal, I epoxied it and will install longer screws that will go in past the break and be just fine.
3: it broke off a big chunk of the Ferrite in the yoke, I have no idea what this might do? the set has a full raster but I couldn't tell if it was distorted or not.
I basically just cleaned everything up, washed the cabinet and other non-electrical parts in the parts washer.
The cabinets not too bad, the top is faded and scratched a bit, lots of dirt and spider webs/eggs, this set had sat outside for awhile before it was dumped.
It'll never be a 10 but it might clean up enough to be a 6 or 7.
Before tearing it apart I powered it up again, it had a raster and I was able to tune a channel using just my finger as an antenna, it was way out of focus, probably because the focus slug was jammed all the way into the coil to the point where I had to pull and turn it with needle nose to re-engage the threads. There was no handle on the focus adjustment, I don't know if this is because it was a Motel set or if it's just missing?
I didn't see any signs of color but the signal was very weak.
The chassis cleaned up pretty well with a brush and compressed air, the flyback looks good, no drippage of note.
If anyone's interested I'll take the camera to work and take pics in it's current state of disrepair.
Eric
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