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Originally Posted by DavGoodlin
It was then, right at bedtime that I noticed a little black wire was missing from the 4.7meg 2w resistor in the HV cage to the CRT socket for the focus anode. It must have been pulled out of the CRT socket, leaving the pin when I initially got the set and immediately cleaned it out 5 years ago.
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Wow, that triggered a memory. Back when I was 15 or so, I had an early RCA (15, 16?) that had no picture. It had good HV, all the voltages on the CRT socket were there, and I even put our old RCA scope on it and verified video to the CRT socket (my older brother was schooling me on scopes and things). I told my dad that I thought the picture tube was bad. He laughed and told me to change the 2AV2. I then noticed the tube had white residue inside it - hard to see when it had a lovely amber coating of cigarette tar on the outside. The 2AV2 fixed it. Never forgot that lesson.
John