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Nice to see that set on its way to good operation.

Cool, looks like you are making good progress. Glad to see your CRT is good! When I get some time I'm going to try using the Sencore VA62 alignment procedure to try to get rid of my vertical white line. Good luck with yours.

Dave

Poor sync can still point to horizontal issues, make sure you have all the correct voltages. I just use the procedure in Sams, it's a good one.

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I am Curious what type, or part number everyone has used for the ALL 250uh peaking coils, since there are many and I was able to get what was in the sams Meissner brand, "19-3250"

I didn't worry about originality with those, I just shopped at Digikey:

From phase detector to reactance tube grid: M10101-ND (1 piece)
Matrix output to CRT: M10093-ND (3 pieces)
Y-line, near delay line: M10082-ND (1 piece)
R-Y demod/amp: M10083-ND (2 pieces)
Q demod: M10098-ND (1 piece) and M10127-ND (1 piece)
Y-line near 2nd video tube, and matrix power input: M10106-ND (5 pieces)


^ That's from my CT-100 resto, but the 2 chassis are similar enough. I put the same coils in both my CT-100 and 21-CT-55, the colors on the screen were very nice. No one will know you didn't get correct pi wound coils, it dosn't appear to make any difference.

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But you're SO close ! I wish I had, 1) a '50s color TV, & 2) the technical knowledge/ability to work on it & NOT kill it..

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Well here Sandy, you can take this one on.
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But you're SO close ! I wish I had, 1) a '50s color TV, & 2) the technical knowledge/ability to work on it & NOT kill it..

Danke Schoen, but do the words/phrase "Bull in a China Shop" mean anything to you ?!?

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Nice progress! The current through the fuse in my CTC2B is also right around 206-208. I think I finally have a good IF alignment, but I still have a little more work to do on the color alignment.

Dave

:) :)

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My cheap little camera makes the image look more red and blue and less yellow than what I see. I'd guess better camera let you change that.