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

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Originally Posted by tom.j.fla

Hi, 1N4001 is rated at 50 piv(peak inverse volts) minimum would be 1N4004 rated at 400 piv. ckeck the mouser & allied sites for Belden wire rated for 10 kv, or if you have a color set that non repairable its focus lead if long enough will work as well. On 70 & 90 degree delta gun crts it's on pin 9 & on RCA type inline gun crts on pin 1 tripotenal crts on pin 3 will be wire rated for 15kv. All the best tom.

OK, well the only issue is that I don't have any TVs that are duds yet... so I may have to check your suggestion about the Belden Wire rated for 10kV.

But the only problem is, I think the wire itself is fine, I think what my problem was, was that my tube socket's HV pin connector was broken and thus had an intermittent connection and so because of that I had low HV and B+ to the picture tube, so I need to figure out a way to fix the said connector.