Another gem by the General!

[Electronic M]

Originally Posted by dieseljeep

The electro's behind the speaker run a little warm, otherwise I had the same results as you had.

It's definitely a nice set.

Originally Posted by vortalexfan

I had the same TV that I had gotten from a musician friend of mine who brought it up here to Indiana from Nashville where he lived previously and I tried to fix it up but I had too many problems with the set when I was trying to recap the set and replacing the tubes that as Electronic M mentioned were very odd ball tubes and some of them were too expensive for me to buy (like the High-Voltage Rectifier that this TV used which was an oddball tube that for some reason was a $30 tube on feebay and also on some of the other tube retailer sites as well, and I just couldn't justify paying $30 for that tube.)

I agree with Dave the eBay seller you were looking at was dreaming on price. One thing I like to do is stock modern 5KV 200mA and 2KV 2A diodes. The 5KV can sub for color TV focus rectifiers (I usually put 2 in series for better PIV headroom), and 2-5 in series can sub for most HV rectifier applications in a pinch...And sometimes permanent on rare sets with hot running flybacks since removing heater load from the fly should help cool it.

The 2A parts might work for a damper tube if the right series parallel combo to match PIV and current requirements was reached.