"Old Sparky" (CTC-31)

[bgadow]

Okay, progress, for the most part. What I found was that the set was living up to it's nickname-still more arcing! Very light, across a trace, only visible when it was darker in the room. More 'scrape, scrape, scrape' and when I was done the voltages @ Q1 were normal! I don't know, something must have gotten on the traces or something odd because since then I have found 2 or 3 more that want to spark over! I ran it earlier today all hooked up (with hv) and it worked okay (no color) but shut it off when I tracked down an arc; later I ran it for an hour or so without any problems, then once again a real bad arc-over, in another location, this one was bad enough to kill the raster before I hit the switch. Out the chassis came again, more scraping & cleaning. If I can get beyond this I can tackle the color problem; with some adjustment I was getting some color, odd in that pure reds (like a red dress or lipstick) show up great but fleshtones and most other colors are very weak. Same basic problem I had before the shorts started. I'll be trying again soon, and if it holds without arcing I'll try aligning the colors.