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Okay, I have it running again! I built ballast with Dale 25W resistors per Phil Nelson's site, and that did the trick. I'll probably get a more stock-looking glass ballast at some point.
I started replacing resistors in the vertical section, and while the shrinking problem has disappeared, the vertical hold is still very touchy. I hope to have this corrected before calling it a day with this one.
It is running so well that I even brought it into work to show off (it's the weekend, so we really haven't anything else to do) and it ran like crap of course. Between the server racks and the fluorescent lights, you could just make out the picture in a hail of static and herringbone. The set ran like it had a sound misalignment, too. I get it home and it runs fine as ever. I'm sure everyone at my job just thinks I'm more insane than ever, but what else is new?
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