Admiral 24A12 restoration

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Originally Posted by miniman82

you'll need to filter out the 3.58 info to get rid of the dots. It's really bad on a Philco-Ford set I just got (which is color but still suffers), the dot crawl is atrocious. I don't think it properly filters out all the info for the chroma section, there's obviously still 3.58 in the luma.

There should be an adjustable (tuned coil) 3.58 trap somewhere in that set. (The CTC-5 Super chassis didn't need one because the luma response was so strongly rolled off already.) Excess 3.58 dots desaturate the color, so you do need to fix that for best picture.