Zenith 19L25 Chassis Restoration - Advice?

[RitchieMars]

Alright, here's what the tentative end result of my recap looks like: I say tentative because there's a couple more I could replace if need be.



Hey leadlike, I remember asking you about that 2 x .01 ceramic and I do have two .01's to replace it but I haven't yet, because it didn't seem to be open or shorted and it was pretty hard to get to. I still may replace it anyway, though. There was also a .001 ceramic? that I couldn't find. Either way, my sound isn't working, just as I figured would happen. ( But I'll explain that later )

First off, I did get it to fit in the cabinet. I scooted the yoke back just a hair and that helped somewhat:





Haven't gotten around to painting that control panel gold yet, but it should look nice when it's done.

Anyways, I finally fired it up with the new CRT and all the new capacitors and was treated to some static and pops from the speaker. I had the volume all the way down, but the noise cracked in and out for about 15 seconds or so and finally went away completely. I thought maybe the volume switch had an issue, but I fear it's actually the audio output transformer. There's a small burn on it that I had noticed before. Keep in mind, I haven't changed any tubes, either and I'm pretty sure that's going to be next on my agenda.

As for the picture... well, I've got something!



No need to worry about ion burn. Looks like it's already got one on the center of the screen. Very small and faint, though.



I recall bandersen having issues with dark vertical lines on the Motorola he's been restoring, which I believe had something to do with the flyback? I seem to have very faint vertical lines, but brighter rather than darker. Huh... no concern, there.

I can't get the vertical and horizontal to sync up into a watchable image, but I haven't had very long to play with it so. I'm not familiar with the proper technique for adjusting these things from scratch. I'm willing to bet there's a couple tubes that could use replacing, too. Using a VCR as input, I can tell from the changes in brightness that it's getting the signal at least.

So, no sound, bright raster, nothing watchable. But... it feels like progress.