Old Muntz TV for sale Locally to me, Should I pick it up?

[vortalexfan]

Originally Posted by Kevin Kuehn

Are we talking about C80? It sure looks like 15k to me.

OK, you're right it is 15,000 Volts, I confirmed it with the Sam's Folder I had of the Meck Model XL750 which was basically the model that my TV took the place of, and that one had a 10,000 Volt Capacitor listed, and seeing as my manual was a copy it was hard to read the details because the copy wasn't very clear, also when I was reading the value of the cap when I had the high voltage cage apart to check that 1 Meg 1 Watt Resistor that capacitor looked like it said 5kV on it but the writing on it was kind of worn so it may have actually said 15kV but the 1 was probably worn off.

And if that door knob capacitor were to go bad, where would one acquire one of those capacitors? I don't think anyone makes those anymore, seeing as they quit using those in TVs around the time TVs went solid state which was in the mid 1970s for some of the companies like GTE/Sylvania, and early 1980s for the rest so that's over 35 years that those Door Knob style High Voltage caps have been out of production for.

Also I had a very shocking experience last night when I was trying to adjust the horizontal size adjustment on the TV, the Horizontal Size adjustment slug was turning rather hard and so when I was turning it with my screwdriver, the screwdriver slipped and my hand hit one of the terminals on the Flyback Transformer and I got a good jolt out of it and a couple of tiny burn marks on my ring finger on my left hand.