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21ax gassy or bad 3a3?
Just got my CTC-5 home from tvdude1. I had an image on the 21axp22 for about a minute before I turned the set off. Came back about 5 or 10 minutes later and noticed I couldnt get a picture anymore but I had HV. I looked at the gap between the G2 element of the electron gun and the other element and saw a faint blue glow. But then I noticed the 3a3 HV rectifier had a ring of brighter blue around the whole envolope. This all starts when the HV starts up. The 3a3 tests OK on my 600A and the 21ax tests perfect on all guns. The cutoff test on all guns performs nicely and is not jumpy and I can get it to hold in the cutoff set line. Could this be a HV issue or something wrong with the 3a3 or could my 21ax be gassy all of the sudden? 
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