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[old_coot88]

Originally Posted by jpdylon

...If the fly internally shorts or arcs its near impossible to fix unless you're really good at unwinding transformers.

Unwinding 'em isn't a big deal. Rewinding would be the challenge. Has anybody ever successfully rewound a color flyback? Or a B&W one for that matter.

[ctc17]

Originally Posted by bluenorm

like you Alignments videos very much. very unique and instructive. could you do a series step by step on of how to align ctc 16 if you have that type of tv?

I do have a 16 and will get to it after I get more practice. The 16 and 35 IF is basically identical.
Its amazing how everything falls into place when aligned. No buzz in the sound, the sound, color and video track right with the fine tuning. The tint control is centered and the color looks good.

There is no one to teach me how to align sets, I have to learn by reading and doing, trial and error. I bought the estate of a 'master aligner' and have tons of material to read from manuals to magazine articles he saved. I have lots of these late 60s particle board consoles and a few can get sacrificed so we all have a reference how to make them work their best.

On the power transformer thing. I know the older sets are much more fragile but these late 60s/early 70s power transformer are super robust.
First the damper would melt down then the choke would burn up the the circuit breaker in the houses fuse panel would blow. Thats assuming you bypassed the fuse or breaker in the set.

[Bill R]

I haven't done any alignment in years. I don't know if I can even find all the cables for the 415. If anyone has a set I would be interested. Anyway I would like to see more alignment videos as well. Radio and TV.

[ctc17]

The 415 is an awesome piece of gear. The cables are very important and the demodulator probe is key to chroma circuit alignments. I have a good factory one and plan on making copys of it.
The alignment videos are pretty rough and amateur. I plan on doing a few more fm radios, stereo mpx and many more tv sets.

[AUdubon5425]

I have a 415 on the way, provided it survives shipping.

[doogie812]

I used to tell my customers that all electronics runs on smoke… Once you let the smoke out it does not work anymore. Doogie