Alright, I really cleaned out the 3 pot block that had the horizontal control and that seemed to fix things up. I probably should have looked there first, but the control had been working earlier (albeit scratchy) and when it wasn't working the entire control was shorted out. I'm thinking the control may have had tin whiskers, so if it fails again I will either pull the control and try to remove those or replace the control. Now I just need to work on the lack of good horizontal hold, something that seems to be a typical problem on all old sets I work on. I already replaced a few resistors directly off the control but I will expand out to try to find the few that are causing the poor hold.
This is about as close as I can get. It actually is rolling a lot more than this, but that is because I have no clue where the vertical should be set with the poor horizontal hold.
Additionally, thanks for all the help and links you guys have found. Findm keep m, thanks for the cool story about the notes on the sams, I always like finding notes like that and hearing the stories behind them. I have an rca tt5 service manual with a bunch of notes in it, I would love to have known the history behind those.