9" Sears B&W

[radiotvnut]

Today, a lady gave me this pitiful looking Sanyo built Sears 9" B&W from '77. When I first fired it up, it had a dim raster that was shrunk in on the sides. The longer it stayed on, the worse it got. I found a 10 uf, 100V cap in the power supply that was red hot and about to explode. I also found another 10uf, 160V cap that was not in the best of shape. It now has a picture; but, the picture is still not very bright or sharp and the audio is not very loud. These conditions improve some as the set warms up; so, I suspect it has more bad caps. Also, I think this is another one of those TV's that was white when it was new; but, it's now yellow. I'm sure this was the cheapest TV that Sears sold in 1977.