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[old_tv_nut]

Originally Posted by timmy

I guess there is no definitive way of knowing if the original xtal is bad because if the original is infact good then there is a component that has failed in the color circuit and if I find it I won’t have to mess with the oscillator slug at all in hopes finding what may be wrong and it will stay the way it was. The sams says to use a meter that they used back in the day I don’t have one just a digital meter.

To repeat: you cannot conclude that there is a bad component somewhere until you do the alignment. Then if you still have trouble, you can conclude there is a bad component somewhere.