'57 Emerson 21" B&W console

[Adam]

I fixed the 57 Emerson 21" B&W console I brought back from MI yesterday. This was one of the ones in that electronic parts store's attic. I took a look at some of the caps on this and they mostly looked bad, so I pulled the chassis and recapped the whole thing before I tried it at all.
This is another one of those power-transformer-less sets with the filaments in series. This one is unusual in that it uses no voltage increasing capacitor, an just one of those selenium rectifiers, followed up with two big 250 mfd filter caps. The low voltage only ranges from 135-120. I replaced the old rectifier with a diode, didn't even test it, those have almost always gone bad on me, even if they work at first.
The only tubes that were bad were the ones in the tuner, the RF amp was just weak, the mixer/osc was shorted on the mixer side. The CRT is good.
One tube socket, the horiz osc, was bad and someone had soldered another socket on top of the old one, rather than replacing it, it works, but it dosen't look that great. But this is one of those circuit board sets where the traces lift easily, so I think I could cause more problems trying to change it.
The vert. size control is bad, I got it to work by shaking it a bit, but I can only get it to work on a bit too much vert. size or way not enough, this I probably will change.
This set also needs allignment to get the buzzing out of the audio. Every set I've fixed so far made prior to '59 has this problem. I will eventually have to learn this, but for now I want to just get all my sets to work at all, I have too many not-working sets now.
I had alot of trouble not lifting the traces on the circuit board on this. But, eventually I came up with a way of removing the old capacitors cleanly. I cut the caps off first, then pushed the wires out the back. As pulling the wires out when they are a little bent, is what usually causes this problem for me, so having a nice straight, clean bit of wire to pull through the board helps.
The finish on the cabinet is bad, from sitting under a leaky roof for decades, but the wood itself is good, it only really got the clear coat, at least water didn't get inside, the chassis is clean and rust free.