Westinghouse found in the wild.

[init4fun]

Originally Posted by Jeffhs

I'm surprised you aren't seeing hum bars in the picture as well as hearing hum in the audio, if the filter caps are that bad. I would replace them as soon as possible, as it seems they are on their last legs. Caps in this condition may be close to shorting as well, which could and probably will damage or destroy the power transformer if they don't cause the line fuse to blow first.

However, it sounds to me as if the CRT is in good shape, so if you correct the power supply problems the set should be OK. As I said, if you have severe hum in the sound, the capacitors are in very bad shape and will fail or short eventually. I wouldn't be the least bit surprised the filters are going bad if they are the originals, as the TV was made 58 years ago.

Dude, you really needed to tell Eric all that "electronics 101" stuff as though you were talking to a newbie TV collector, , really ????

I'm betting the man has a good idea of what it's gonna take to restore that set.......