Update worked!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dt13mz-tRCQ
I was able to turn CRT bias way down after replacing that ugly diode, and screens came up by quite a bit, but of course, this DID change the vertical linearity a bit, which in turn upset the convergence, this was not unexpected, but over all, things seem better, I will re-do the convergence for the 1000th time at a later date
