CTC-16 combo

[DaveWM]

what odd is I dont really know why I had the orig high current, the only thing I did was to replace the HOT coupling cap (the .01 tested a bit weak on my cap tester but not much just a little, certainly not enough to resolve this)

I think what was going on was the HV filament lead was shorting to the chassis, when I pulled it out an bench tested iit I could see/hear the arc.

after dressing it away from the chassis (short term fix) the arc resolved and the HOT current came down. I assume this was the base problem with the cathode current.

focus on that 1st pic was not very good. I plan to check the focus tube (1v2) and will check the focus voltage at the CRT.
and need to check the contrast control to see if its effective, maybe a weak Y signal (has all the orig eletrolytics, so I was thinking maybe the 12BY7 cathode bypass cap). I have seen low Y result in loss of detail.

finally I have to figure as bad as the cateract is, that has got to be hurting the pic some.