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If the CRT is mounted to the cabinet you could put the cabinet next to your work bench build some extension cables to hook the chassis to the CRT. If that uses an octal yoke plug (or one based on some other tube socket) buy a dud tube and a new tube socket the same type as the yoke socket, get some wire and make an extension cable, get a CRT brightener that fits your CRT delete the transformer and wire the 2 connectors together with longer wires and you have a CRT socket extension cable, get a few feet of non-resistive spark plug cable (your local autoparts store should sell it by the foot) and the CRT HV connector off a junk set or NOS solid state flyback and make your HV extension cable (put the point where the original HV cable and extension meet in a glass jar to prevent arcing).
Aonther option is to get a telematic 8" monochrome test jig.
All of the test equipment you could ever want is out there on ebay, at hamfests, and the like. Theres tons of analog TV test equipment out there and most of it has no market and thus is dirt cheap...Most of my vintage TV test equip I bought over the last 10 years and most of it was under $25 a pop.
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