Should I start on my predicta?

[josephdaniel]

Originally Posted by 6GH8cowboy

Just food for thought. Before getting all wraped up about testing the crt it might be worth removing the front cover and cleaning the crt. This one I worked on had a fairly bright line before the vertical got fixed and a weak but useable raster afterwards. After the rest of the resto, I removed the front to get the HV connected to the crt I discovered the face of the tube was BLACK WITH DIRT? SMOKE? WHATEVER. After cleaning the picture looks like new crt. Might be worth a look see.

I already tried this but I think its lucky that I get anything on the screen at all considering that there are still paper caps on the board.

I was going to do that but the wire used here is solid core so I fear that it may break if I flex it too much. and if I remove the whole board it gives me a chance to check everything very thoroughly.