Help my flyback is ticking

[Tubejunke]

I'm glad the doorknob cap subject came up. Some may know that I restored an RCA TC-127. I think a lot of this era's chassis were very similar so I thought it would not be off topic to elaborate on this here in this thread. A lot of folks including myself overlook this in restoration for a number of reasons. I know I left mine alone. It seems like I have read that they don't often go bad but hey, it IS a capacitor. Actually, I didnt know there was one in there. I was curious of the removable component that I saw but more thought it might be some weird resistor due to the fact that it is removable. Regardless though if the thing doesent go bad, why did they make it so easy to replace. Too bad ALL caps arent "Plug And Play"!!

Thanks to Bill for giving us a value. I wonder if that is atypical value for the old RCA's. I'm now scratching my head wondering where to get a 20 thousand volt capacitor.