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Yes, finding out about the 6JE6 is one of the first places. Hopefully it isn't a big mess under that chassis. I hope to pull it soon and get a better look at it. And, as suggested by other AKer's, it may just be a bad tube.
Since the circuit breaker was tripped, there most certainly was an overload of some sort. In my experience, albeit limited, those weren't typically known for tripping for no reason.
But at least the chassis isn't dead so that is a start. I am sure though that once HV is back, there will be the plethera of ground solder connections to deal with that is common to these chassis.
I will be checking the CRT soon. It does have really bad cataracts so I haven't worried too much about it. The set does not seem to have a lot of time on it. The stereo certainly does. The knobs tell the tale. The knobs on the stereo have the usual wear from hands turning and tuning, etc. The knobs on the TV though are still quite shiny with little or no wear on them. However, the channel display bulb in the VHF tuner is out so it has had at least enough time on it to kill that bulb. There are a couple of missing tube shields and the 6JE6 and the 6GH8A's (surprise, surprise) have been replaced, but there is little evidence to suggest the chassis has been out of the set much, if at all.
I suspect that whatever happend to it was too expensive for the owner or they got a tech thad didn't want to deal with it, they just got a new set.
Pure conjecture though. I do know that this set belonged to the gentleman's grandmother until she passed away in '99. They did used it for the stereo for a while and it is quite possible that they turned on the tv and a bad lytic fried the fly.
Who knows really. A long winded thread to be sure, but that's what I know.
RCAkid
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