[Adam]

The only real problem on mine is that the 7JP4 is so weak. I think even more than when I first got it to work. That modification against the retrace lines really helped the picture on mine. (Some DVDs cause this problem while others don't.) The vertical is not exceptionally stable, I have to readjust it when I change the channel, and the picture sometimes 'shakes' a bit. But somewhere (I think here) I read someone saying that this problem was caused by having two ceramic caps in parallel as a replacement for those 6kv caps like I have.
I have had mixed experiences with the radios from the same time. I have a '48 Stromberg-Carlson console radio, I bought it at an estate sale with all the tubes missing. I put tubes in it and it is the best working AM radio I have. I never even changed a single capacitor. Sometimes at night I can pick up AM all the way from Albequerque NM, with only the antenna in the set. It also has that old FM band 42-50Mhz? I think. But I also have a '49 Capehart console radio that was my great-grandmother's. A few years ago it burned out an output trans. After I replaced it, I never could get it to work again. Replaced every tube and capacitor in that thing, and all I could get was really low volume FM, only at the top of the dial, and no AM at all.