1960s vintage 9" GE B & W Portable TV has no Picture

[Don Lindsly]

The high voltage rectifier is a 1V2. All the tubes in that TV are single ended, including the CRT.

Check the ion trap position. It could have been moved. The CRT is certainly defective if it is the original and likely very dim, if a replacement.

[Captainclock]

Originally Posted by Don Lindsly

The high voltage rectifier is a 1V2. All the tubes in that TV are single ended, including the CRT.

Check the ion trap position. It could have been moved. The CRT is certainly defective if it is the original and likely very dim, if a replacement.

OK, well since I don't have a picture tube tester/rejuvenator, how would I go about checking if the picture tube is "bad" or if it was the original or a replacement tube?
The person I got the TV from told me that the TV was used very little before it was put into storage for 40+ years which with that in mind would lead me to think that the picture tube should still be good, and the TV when I had it opened didn't look like it had any repairs made to the set from what I could see, plus the unit had PCBs in it for all of the circuitry and tube sockets which the PCBs showed hardly any heat damage which seemed to confirm my friend's story about it having low hours on the set.