Zenith 19L25 Chassis Restoration - Advice?

[RitchieMars]

I see what you're saying. That's interesting... I'd always wondered what it was about bright images that would make that little buzz come through the speaker on some of televisions I've watched over the years. I'd never heard it this bad before, though! My dad even told me that he remembered a lot of televisions that buzzed back then.

I'm poking around in the IF section and checking resistors. For many of them, it's hard to say if they're good or bad since they have both ends going to ground or a coil so that they read shorted. So far, most of the one's I can get a reading on appear to be good. As for the tubes themselves, it uses 3 6CB6's. Of them, one is a red-lettered Zenith brand and likely original to the set. It looks a little cloudy in the upper half unlike the other two, so getting a few NOS 6CB6's wouldn't hurt. I'd love to be able to plug these tubes into a tester and get a simple "good" or "bad" but I can't get ahold of a tube tester to save my life. I watch them on Ebay all the time. Even old, untested emissions testers are selling for far more than they're worth, in my opinion.

In regards to my overlapping vertical troubles, I did find a 680k resistor coming off the 6BE6 (sync clip) that read's more like 40k or less. There's a couple others than are "iffy" but likely not a problem. They're on the borderline of their listed tolerance. I also found out why I was getting the VCR on channel 6. When I took the tuner out before, I had turned the turret and when I put it back, it was naturally in disagreement with the controls. I took care of that easily enough.