Last post about my convergence

[TinCanAlley]

Okay, did another cleaning with deoxit on all the pots and followed up with Fader Lube to keep them lubricated. I then tested each pot and found one that makes a clicking sound at full CCW and you can also feel it. I checked the resistance across the tabs and it was much lower than the other two pots of the same resistance (120ohm). Two showed that value, but this one only showed about 23ohm. When I connected to the wiper, the other two pots showed 1.2 to 123. This one started at 1.8, when to 27.9 and then started to drop back down to 2.8 and never go anywhere near it's value of 120.

I tracked down an NOS pot and will be purchasing it long with the R/G vertical lines right coil. It is seized in the position left from last adjustment.

I'm attaching pics of the current convergence I've achieved. I think with the pot replaced and the new coil, I should be able to tweak it to make it better. I know perfect is not possible, but I'm pretty close to a convergence I can live with.

Thanks to many here, I'm almost there!

[sampson159]

this is as good as your going to get.all my zeniths look about like this too.turned out very nice.you will never,ever achieve absolute perfect convergence.from about 5-10 feet away,it will look perfect.nice job and now sit back,relax and enjoy this masterpiece!

[TinCanAlley]

Originally Posted by sampson159

this is as good as your going to get.all my zeniths look about like this too.turned out very nice.you will never,ever achieve absolute perfect convergence.from about 5-10 feet away,it will look perfect.nice job and now sit back,relax and enjoy this masterpiece!

Still have to replace the one pot and coil. Both are responsible for the right lower section that is still quite a bit off. Watching a B&W image is painful as it's not just a little blue or red on an edge in the image. It's a large blue, magenta and yellow edge on almost everything in the lower right. It immediately pulls your eye to it and is quite distracting.

While I know perfect isn't possible, those lines should be closer together. I should have the replacements here and installed by next Monday (hopefully).