[dobulee]

Well, with the horizontal running well, I hoped to have HV, but no such luck. All the biasing on the HOT looks pretty reasonable. With John's troubleshooting help, I tried the 'arc to a screwdriver' trick on the cap of the HOT and the cap of the 1B3.

Nothing going on the HOT, but I can pull a small arc from the 1B3. That gives me even more faith that the flyback is good. No change when I pull the HV cap. Here's hoping all goes well with a new 6BG6 HOT. I should know something more in a few days.

In the mean time, I put some video on Chan 3, and followed through the Tuner, IF, and amplifier stages. I had video at the Detector, but not at the 1st video amp -- I eventually found the 36uH coupling inductor to be open. I popped in the closest thing I had - 47uH. Voila, video the whole way through to the DC restorer, and stable DC referenced video at the grid of the CRT. Incidentally, there is an open 500uH inductor in the shunt leg between the 2nd video amplifier and the DC restorer. I haven't replaced it yet - I'm interested to see what difference it makes once I have a picture to look at.

I took a couple of pictures of horizontal lines and vertical fields, with the horizontal and verticals sweeps on the 2nd channel as appropriate. The horizontal hold is rock-solid, but the vertical is extremely touchy. With a little finesse, it pulled it.

Enjoy!

Alex