I need an adult!

[miniman82]

Well, I woke up with a clear head and decided to try a few more things. I ended up finding that I had already fixed the problem by replacing a few bad resistors and the video detector diode, but without AGC the strip was overloading with such a strong signal. Put all the tubes back in and fired it up with the pix tube, and everything's just fine again. Well, except for a noisy video amp tube socket which I'll clean later today.

[DaveWM]

so you did not have all the tubes in when testing? or was one just not making good contact.