84' Mitsubishi CS1984R - Startup Issue?

[Mad-Mike]

Update...

I just discharged the anode (no current in it anyway), and pulled the chassis (he's right, this thing is pretty easy).

Now for what I have found.

Sounds like no charge in the Anode cap when I discharged it. Either this thing must be pretty good at discharging itself when turned off, or maybe the lack of high voltage on startup has drained it.

Thankfully no cracks in the board. A lot of the solder joints, especially on the flyback side, are not very shiny. Went through and discharged all caps and potential voltage stored to chassis ground to make sure the set was safe for testing.

Using a digital multimeter to test all the fuses, all of them are in 100% working order.

Upon closer inspection, there is a metal rod running up the side to the top of the Flyback, and when I touched on the little round bit, a piece of aforementioned "spring" came off, all corroded and rusty exposing a rusty rod that it must have been soldered to. What would this be doing...it almost seems like it's some kind of ground or fuse that fried or corroded away. Still not sure weather to concern mys elf with that or not.

Another suspicious thing I found was a black relay on the flyback side towards the front labeled RP901 that was loose on it's pads I decided to re-solder it...it's nice and tight now with a shiny new connection.

Looking at the pads for the tiny transformer (HOZ) in the Flyback section, they don't look all that shiny so I will resolder those as well.