Old Muntz TV for sale Locally to me, Should I pick it up?

[Electronic M]

Originally Posted by vortalexfan

OK, so a little update, I replaced EVERY capacitor there was to replace in this TV and the TV is still drawing way too much current somewhere because the wattage draw on the TV powering it up was approaching 400 watts and the rectifier tube was still arcing.

Any ideas of where else I could look?

I know its not the power transformer or the choke as I tested those without the tubes in and the current draw was normal.

Could it be my flyback or something in my high voltage section, if so how do I check?

Unlikely, but pulling the horizontal output tube would be a good way to check....your power consumption should drop well below the rating with the H out pulled.

You probably have a short somewhere down stream of the choke.... such as in the focus coil circuit or one of the loads on the B+ lines.

You only followed a fraction of the short tracing procedure I laid out on a previous page of this thread...you should be better served following that method to the end/extending it to the loads on the line than grabbing chit outa a hat and throwing it at a wall in hopes of something sticking...