Mighty Monarch of The Air

[old_coot88]

Aw shucks. T'warnt nothin' really. Y'know, when i retired from doing this stuff nearly 30 years ago, i never dreamed of ever getting into it again.. or of "doing it" vicariously through a yet-uninvented magical medium. Doing it 9 to 6 for a living was not fun, but doing it this way is immensely enjoyable.
By golly did you refinish the cabinet too? Looks terrific.
oc

[vts1134]

Originally Posted by old_coot88

Aw shucks. T'warnt nothin' really. Y'know, when i retired from doing this stuff nearly 30 years ago, i never dreamed of ever getting into it again.. or of "doing it" vicariously through a yet-uninvented magical medium. Doing it 9 to 6 for a living was not fun, but doing it this way is immensely enjoyable.
By golly did you refinish the cabinet too? Looks terrific.
oc

Cabinet is not refinished. It looks way better in that picture than it does in person.

[Phil Nelson]

Yee-hah! Nice job. You have been very persistent. Now, relax and watch some movies!

Phil Nelson

[old_coot88]

In later sets after the damper circuitry had become standardized (damper tube in series with the flyback's B+ path), there was a little trick that was guaranteed to bump the width out a tad, while dropping the HV a corresponding amount. That was to take a disc ceramic cap of 82 mmf (82pf) rated at 4KV or higher, and connect it directly across the damper, cathode to plate.
Your set has a different damper configuration so i can't guarantee it would work, but it might. It might be worth a try sometime later if you have the chassis out for something else. It wouldn't hurt anything. Dropping the HV a smidgin would give a little more headroom for the arcy sparky 1X2.