RCA CTC-16XH Smearing Issue

[Jon1967us]

Really the only things that are left that could be suspect would be disc caps and the remote possibility that there is a shorted peaking coil. All mylars that were in these circuits in question have been replaced, and frankly when tested out of circuit, they were still within spec and not very leaky. I'm reluctant to pull the chassis out again. Wires can only stand so much of that, especially the tuner that's separate, but hard wired, and has to be moved with the main chassis.

I actually have peaked the coils again and the picture is decent enough. I don't need it to be a reference model or intend for it to be a daily watcher. The flyback wouldn't be able to take that, unless I mod the cage for ventilation.

It could probably use a full setup again and a full alignment, which I may start this weekend, but I may wait to get a hold of a better marker generator (don't have one...only the marker on my sweep gen and an additional freq gen...would like to access all at the same time rather than having to punch each one up.) If anything, I'm curious as to how screwed the bandwidth shape is.