[drh4683]

I had to change a filter cap on mine too. It "leaked" out the bottom. I had an NOS zenith filter cap for this chassis and I used it. So far its been about 7 years since I fixed it and I periodically use this TV and its been holding up well. Mine is all metal too, the only plastic part is the speaker grille. Yours has that red knob in the aux control panel. Is that a seperate chroma level control? Some of these sets had the "Color commander" control on the main control panel which was a ganged pot with chroma and contrast. Never liked that idea, people would crank up the control to get more color, and would also be cranking up the contrast which would then overdrive the CRT and kill it prematurely. I've had quite a few 1970 models with color commander with toasted CRT's.