24 inch Muntz restoration has begun

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Originally Posted by Dave A

Or does this thing need a massive amount of RF to be stable?

Dave A

You may have something there Dave. When this chassis was on my bench here at home using a 5 inch test crt the darn thing seemed to be very stable. In conjuction with the above, you should understand that I live in the middle of where all the Milwaukee transmiter towers are located. I am less than 1 mile from no less than 6 1000 foot high transmiter towers with several stations per tower. The signal here at my home has always been way overloaded. It bleeds into everything.

Today when I installed the 24 inch crt, it was at my workshop at the factory where I work. That location is about 3 miles further away from the towers, and the signal is noticably weaker at my workshop.

Perhaps I should try and feed a DVD player into the set and see if it is stable that way?

But even if it is a mater of weak signal, I would have to think the set needed to perform better than this when it was delivered. Otherwise nobody would have been able to watch the thing under normal signal conditions.

Going to try some more tubes tomorrow before removing the big crt.

Thanks for all the suggestions,
Bob