Weird issue with an RCA 730TV2

[Tom Albrecht]

Your vertical oscillator is running at twice its proper frequency, so you're only getting half the image in each raster scan. That's why things are stretched vertically, and you see two overlapping images. Either the vertical hold control is not properly adjusted (most likely you would have figured that one out, of course, so that's probably not it), or something in the timing circuitry has gone bad. Check the resistors and capacitors right around the vertical oscillator. A short (leakage) in a vertical blocking transformer (if this set has one) could also cause this kind of problem.

[Username1]

Originally Posted by Tom Albrecht

Your vertical oscillator is running at twice its proper frequency, so you're only getting half the image in each raster scan. That's why things are stretched vertically, and you see two overlapping images. Either the vertical hold control is not properly adjusted (most likely you would have figured that one out, of course, so that's probably not it), or something in the timing circuitry has gone bad. Check the resistors and capacitors right around the vertical oscillator. A short (leakage) in a vertical blocking transformer (if this set has one) could also cause this kind of problem.

I'm placing my bet right here...... Tom is right, your problem is Vert Osc, and
the picture is too big vert. too....

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