[old_tv_nut]

I poked around the hardware store, and ended up making a hinged bracket out of two brass L-brackets. I used these for the bottom mounts that interfere with the chassis.

For the top mounts, i reduced the padding and moved it towards the CRT face, as was suggested earlier. I removed the edge field-compensation assemblies, aslo as suggested earlier. You can see that the hinged bracket fits quite well on one side, but since the holes as supplied are offset, doesn't clear the existing boss for the field-compensator on the other side, so is cocked a bit.

I tried to bend one of the ground contact sprihgs that grounds the pencil box to the chassis and also stops full forward placement, and broke it. I think one will be enough, though.

You can see that I am very close to making contact between the CRT and couple of tubes. I also included a picture of the alignment on the right side (viewed from rear) chassis mounting. You can see it's barely clearing. The left side does not clear with the tubes just about to hit the CRT. However, the controls seem to extend enough through the pencil box with this position.

Plan:
1) give it a rest for today
2a) drill/enlarge mounting holes in cabinet;
2b) arrange some sort of stop to prevent the chassis sliding too far forward
3) cut down the tube shield that is almost touching the CRT