RCA CTC4: the barberized Seville

[Electronic M]

Before the first power up I adjusted for the EXACT HOT grid drive voltage called for in sams as a safety precaution. The wave form looked decent, but I did not compare it to the sams at that time.

I just preformed the synchro-guide horizontal adjustment for equal peaks so the drive may have fluctuated, but I seem to recall that the HV was hovering at around 20KV before that so it may not have affected the drive level.

The sam's High Voltage Adjustment procedure is to,with contrast and brightness down, adjust the HV pot for 25KV connect a 0-500mA meeter (I only have a 0-250 unit on hand) across the HV fuse terminals, and adjust the linearity slug for minimum current. Then reset the cont. and bright controls for a raster, and adjust the drive pot until drive bars appear then back off until they are gone.

I was planning to iterate the process until things improved, but I'm hung up at the linearity adjustment because the lin. coil is stuck almost like gremlins have been dumping excess super glue that they have been using elsewhere into the lin coil.

Anyone know how to unstick linearity coil slugs? Even if I skip linearity and go to drive the linearity adjustment will be done in the next step or two and hang me up again then.