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UPDATE, AUGUST 5, 2019, DAY 366

From Mike: “Hi Marshall. I have made significant headway on the convergence issues. But I have had no time to document any of it. The problem that I had with the convergence control was a failure due to arcing to the “floor” of the high voltage cage. Fortunately, my original design was really OK and I had purchased qty 2 of the Zenith 63-7145 controls so I had a spare. I have installed the spare, and insulated the floor of the cage and since then I have been able to achieve good convergence, except for the blue on top and bottom. I may not win that one. But there may be some small thing that I have missed. I will be reviewing the Westinghouse convergence procedures again and see what happens with that. And, I am really not happy with the crt response, at least compared with the images that I had on the 21FBP22 jig tube. We may want to talk about that at some point. It is true that the numbers came up after some “use” but they did not come up by very much. The blue numbers are quite good compared to the green and red. The red is especially poor in my opinion. I will be sending some more photos of the convergence and picture quality within the next few days. In general, things are becoming more reliable but the high voltage issues and arcing and corona have been a big problem. When I look in to the high voltage cage, and see the design, it makes me wonder how some of it ever worked. No kidding. Everything is way too close together within the cage and arcing from stage to stage was most certainly a problem from the beginning. These engineers were under way too much pressure to “just get it going so we can market it”.

OK to post all of this as a part of Westinghouse history, as far as I am concerned.

More to come soon. And ETA is likely sometime in October if all goes well.

Best Regards, Mike”

Author: I know Mike is preparing me for disappointment in the picture quality, but even prior to the purchase of this Westy, my expectations were not high based on the images I’ve seen on 15GP22’s. We purchased the Westy for its history. Mike knows I’m a perfectionist when it comes to picture quality based on our interactions on two previous roundie restorations. Strangely enough, the green gun tested weaker than the red and yet, all three guns are in the “good” area of the tester. We will know more when Mike sends the first images on the 15GP22. (Edit: Other than crosshatch patterns.)