[Dave A]

You need a scorecard to keep track of this. Follow along closely.

I now have Chuck A's TV-123. He had mine for restoration but time got in the way and we decided to make a major three-way deal. My TV-123 needing restoration went to John Folsom in Florida. Chuck's fully restored set came to me. Cash moved around. Chuck gets to look at my 21CT55 chassis for a problem.

When it arrived at my house in the rain last fall, it went in the den and Chuck smiled and left. I had it on for about 1/2 hour and...poof...it quit. No HV.

Assorted major house repairs left the set waiting for looking at with lot's of consultation in the interim. The prime suspect was the BIG HV donut cap. Tubes swaps did nothing.

John supplied a modern donut cap and today was open-chassis surgery. The new donut had different threads so a bit of measuring, a trip to True Value and some drilling of mount holes got it in place.

Power up and we were making HV after one fuse change. A 53 year old 1/2 amp HV fuse. But the H osc was waaaay off. While staring at it and thinking about what could be wrong, it snapped in to place after about two minutes. ??? Back to life!

Grey-scale is a bear to set and it is close but not the best. Convergence is not the best, but good for now. The right side is not co-operating. The pic overloads at just above minimum contrast. The color control has enough color for another set. And there is audio buzz when color is tuned properly. All that for later. This set falls in to the it-is-working-do-not-mess-with-it-too-much category. A cooling fan will be considered if I can find a quiet one.

There are still only six of them.

And I ran it for an hour Chuck! He did an amazing restoration under the chassis. It is Technicolor under there with all the new caps. Now we wait to hear if John gets his/mine going.

I added a new set photo with the usual washed out CRT and a new screen shot because the old photos are not available.

Slow and sure wins the race. My thanks to all,

Dave A