The customer may have bought it & it didnt fix it. So
put it where it wont get lost. OR the CRT may have got changed.
Usually easy to tell from the tags, EIA number & date code.
It was not unusual to find such things in an old set.
As for part differences learn how to spot reworked soldering. You
only have to see it a few times. Always more solder, not as neat
& a different shade of grey. Nipped wires also a give away.
Always use the factory in set value UNLESS you have an apropriate
factory change bulletin.
The brightener question is why you should always do the miminum
work to get something on the screen. That way no unpleasant
surprizes after you have spent time & $$ like a bad CRT.
73 Zeno
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Originally Posted by jmetal88
I am a little bit worried about what the picture tube is going to look like once I get this up and running. Some previous owner had a brightener in the back of the set. But the odd thing is the brightener wasn't actually installed -- it was literally sitting in its retail box, closed up inside the back of the set.
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