RCA CTC...Something? poor HV output.

[Arcanine]

For lack of anything else to do, I poked around with the set for about a half hour. I cleaned the high voltage wires to check where they were arcing from.

And I let the set run for about 15 minutes, while I checked and watched a few things.

Nothing changed so I shut it down, checked the caps, nothing was hot, everything was cool to the touch until I checked in the flyback box...

The flyback is getting extremely hot. So much so, that I could see fresh wax dripping out of the bottom of it.

I presume that means it's shot? Internally shorted or something like that?

On a positive note: I emailed the guy I bought it from, and explained my situation, and he's giving me a complete CTC16 almost identical to this one with a bad CRT. I'm going to lay claim to the flyback for my set, but I will likely part the rest out for other's who need RCA parts.