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Hey that sounds "poetic".
It shows the fustration you are having in a poetic way.
Reminds me of the Book of Job where nothing could go right with that feller Job.
Just messing with you Bill -- hope you get it all sorted out.

Something to make you feel better -- I had a long saga with my Zenith Porthole and now its working. But, I miss working on it. Enjoy it now, you might miss working on that TV :-)

Carl

Originally Posted by Bill Cahill

As some of you from ARF may remember, this has been a very long, drawn out project. My world's worst nightmare.
I bought this set on ebay a little over 3-4 years ago. She actually shilled me for sixty bucks, and, I was the only bidder. She was using a friend in NY who collected purses, lady friend, that is.
I paid sixty bucks for this gem.
Cabinet: O.K. Dirty, missing some finnish.
Set looked good, but, dirty, smokey.Not cigarettes, as it turned out. It was from all the disastors with this set.

This set was a real factory lemon. It has had everything wrong with it.
Let me go over a list of parts I've replaced, so far, not in order.....
Electrolytics
Capacitors
Micas
Resistors
Pix tube
All other tubes
Tuner
Speaker
Flyback
Yoke
Vert. osc. transformer
Cabinet power on light The wires cracked, and, were brittle. Socket was rusty
Removed incorrect 10A hv fuse, and, installed correct .25A fuse.
Hv cage. Old one had some rust.
A number of screws.
Tube shields.
Volume, and, tone controls
Vertical hold, and, horizontal hold controls. Dammaged by UPS
Height control dammaged by a short while I was working on it.
Vert. lin. control. Open.
Width control. Changed value.
Many resistors
Picture tube socket. Wires were brittle, and, breaking.
What a mess!
Oh, yeh. Power cord
Back cover as original had chemical stains, and, labels ripped off.
I have correct model cover on it.
I am deeply into nostalgia.I am crazy. I got in too deep, and, can't quit now.
But, I wish I had two years ago.
Be it as it may, how much more can go wrong?
Did I mention horiz. osc. coil?
That wasn't working at all right.
Now, I have no video.
What more can go wrong?
True, it no longer blows up, pops, smokes, or, catches on fire.
Speaker, by the way, voice coil fell apart.
This set has been my worst nightmare! :dam mit:
Please help me finnish this set, guys. I can't quit now..
Oh, I forgot. 2 video if transformers, one dammaged by me when set fell off bench. Other by UPS. One aud. det. trans. also dammaged by UPS.
I'm going crazy!
I want to finnish this set. I can't quit now!
Besides, I have friends supporting me, and, enemies harrassing me....
I must finnish this set!
Vertical problem is fixed!
For a brief while, looked like it was going to have a decent picture.
Last year, though not correctly, I actually had it playing for two weeks.
HELP!!!!!!!
Bill Cahill Thank You......