A couple of TV finds

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Ok, did some work on the JC Penny set this evening. Figure I'd fix it for something to do. Turns out to be a shorted filter cap as suspected. a 500uf@200V had a dead short causing the thermistor to expload, thus tripping the breaker.
Well, the set turned on and worked, had a picture lacking blue. Put a test on the CRT and it is completely toasted junk. R+G were so weak the needle hardly moved. rejuvator wouldnt do a thing. A brightener didnt do a thing but make the filaments burn brighter. Blue gun had an open anode. This is a pretty nice clean set, just has a million hours on it. This set must have been used well into the 90's. I guess this is the set that proves us wrong about always having good crts. This is the first one Ive come across with a shot CRT. 99% of the time they work with great picture. Its still available. I got the set to work fine, you just need to put a tube in it! The RCA mural TV was taken by captianmoody.