Carbon tracking. That rubber tire has become conductive. its arcing from the secondary core to the HV rectifier cap. Its savable but needs the tire pulled off and resiliconed with an electronics RTV. Do both sides.
Shango066 Has a good video on this.
https://youtu.be/l-b7LskuTYInd
And this
https://youtu.be/BUnPkymnxUw
I did this before on a CTC-17 with good results. discharge the CRT and remove the anode cap before doing this thou. I didn't. Learned the hard way...
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Last edited by freakaftr8; 09-19-2019 at 09:05 AM.
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