My Motorola Project: "Television Impossible"

[Kamakiri]

Well, at least it is for me

I've got a pair of 1952 Motorolas, one 20" tabletop model 20T3, and one 21" beautiful blonde console. The tabletop was a $20 garage sale find with a trashed cabinet that I bought for parts. The chassis was intact, but the picture tube was toast. My console had a perfect picture tube, but the chassis had been cobbled together over years of part replacement, then as it seems, the replaced parts were removed, leaving an unholy mess underneath the chassis. My project: make one set out of the two. Both use a nearly identical chassis, same controls, same tube complement, so let's go to work!

After stripping the 20T3 chassis of tubes and dead picture tube, I set out to start recapping the set. After years of mounting the caps under the chassis and securing them with twist ties and black tape, I decided on this one to go top mount with the caps, using perforated circuit board. I removed the old caps, and drilled through the chassis to top mount the cap boards with pop rivets. Looks neat and clean



Here's a view from the underside. I ordered all the caps from Digikey, which has stickers with the value of every cap on the bag. As I desoldered each lead on the old multi-value caps, I placed the sticker on each wire so I'd be able to easily identify which wire went to which cap.....because as we all know, the leads going to the cap are pretty short. This enabled me to dismount the old cap without having to knot certain wires or make some kind of hieroglyphics to try to remember which wire went where

Turned out pretty good.....



Then I removed the lower chassis cover and saw this. Ugh......



What are the odds this flyback is still any good?