I'm thinking of buying this Admiral

[Electronic M]

Also if the damper tube is bad there is no way in hell you'll get HV out of it.

Expect to replace some lytics, the paper caps in the horizontal section and any paper caps on the B+ boost line that the flyback supplies before HV materializes.

[MadMan]

Originally Posted by bandersen

Also make sure the speaker is pullged in as it's field coil doubles as a filter choke for the power supply.

Originally Posted by dieseljeep

Did you have the speaker plugged in? It completes the B+ circuit!

lol I thought the speaker was wired strangely!

Originally Posted by Electronic M

Also if the damper tube is bad there is no way in hell you'll get HV out of it.

Expect to replace some lytics, the paper caps in the horizontal section and any paper caps on the B+ boost line that the flyback supplies before HV materializes.

Thanks guys, I replaced the damper tube, and plugged in the speaker. Got a raster! It actually looks... not too bad given that it's all original (minus the filter caps). It lost it for a minute though, not really a big surprise, but it came back. I hadn't changed the damper tube because I thought I didn't have one! My dead-project RCA Victor tv DID have one though. Also the tube is surprisingly bright for testing 'bad.' Even in my brightly lit room, you could probably watch a show no problem.

brb recapping.