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This is the one that had some minor grey paint splatter on the front.
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Yes, and the paint came off nicely with a small amount of denatured ethanol and soft cloth. The finish and lettering survived intact. I'm going to have the set's few cosmetic flaws fixed at some point during the repair. Actually, the blanking out of the raster was from a cold-solder connection. It looked as if it had been serviced a few times through the years, and one of the techs didn't quite get the solder flowing when he put a new cap in the video output stage. The voltages on the CRT drifted way off, cutting off the beam. The CRT in that set is absolutely incredible, definitely in the top two of all the 10BP4's I've seen so far. I have 6 sets in my collection that use 10BP4's, five good tubes and one rebuildable dud. My 630TS lost its CRT thanks to the Postal Service -- bonk, snap. hiss. Luckily, I had bought a good tube on eBay for a spare, but my Fada 899 has a dud tube. I guess the dud goes in the 630TS until I can get the other massive damage repaired. By then I hope to find another good spare or the extra cash to have the dud rebuilt.
Here's the Fada 799 that will be the next set from my personal collection to be recapped when I find time. I finished the initial evaluation last week. Aside from a snapped detent spring in the tuner and the need for recapping, the set is otherwise in mint condition. I got sound and something resembling a picture when I put in the 5AXP4 test CRT and put the Variac to it, but then I set it aside to finish the work I'd started on the TV30.