FIRE! 1961 Zenith

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Originally Posted by maxhifi

I thought it would be more dramatic Just a loose connection at the power cord.

The purpose of the plug and socket is to prevent people from operating the TV with the back off and burning themselves on tubes.

If you can trust yourself not to do that then any sort of power cord will work just fine - of course, the UL rating of the TV will be violated, but no reason it won't work.

Take the wires on the other side of the socket back to where they aren't crispy and splice in a new cord.

The original idea for an interlocking power cord was to prevent electrical shock, especially on hot chassis sets and from the hv supply.
The cord shown, doesn't look like the original power cord. It could've been a polarized cord, forced on the two same size pins. The same thing, with using a standard power cord, on a set, that takes a polarized cord.
At this stage, just cut the connector off and splice it to the leads, that are soldered to the interlock male connector.