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Fixed!
Thanks to Walter Beers, the Capehart is up and running. The set still has a few odd quirks, but will run it off and on, and see.
The caps were all bad, and boy were there ALOT.
The Quirks:
1) When first powered up, the picture is great, it then goes slightly out of focus, but within 5 minutes, the focus is razor sharp and stays that way.
2) I have 2, barely visible, vertical bars that run up the left side of the screen. I used to know what caused that, but have forgotten, so if anybody knows, chime in. I tried to capture in a screen shot, but it's really hard to see/capture.
3) Retrace lines. They don't show up all the time, but I don't think much can be done due to the primitive vertical blanking. They don't show up all the time.
Observations:
1) The set has a Channel Master replacement picture tube, that tested like new
2) The set must have seen heavy use. Almost all tubes had been replaced, some even had the modern RCA logo, so it was still in operation after 1968
3) Set had a ton of Sams revisions. The Sams I bought was as close as we could get, and even it wasn't 100% accurate.
4) Through research, I found out Capehart was built by ITT (International Telephone & Telegraph)
5) User controls are kind of odd, and NOT user friendly. There is no separate brightness and contrast controls. Just one control labeled "Shading" All other controls one might use are behind the name-plate. Which you have to remove 2 screws to get to.
All in all, an interesting set, and glad it works.
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