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Thanks for all the tips guys, I was able to see that L32 was open, and that it couples the 2 halves of the 12AU7… however, after luckily finding the lead wire just needed to be resoldered, I still have the same symptoms. I was all ready to pull the scope and measure the green second grid wire as suggested, but noticed that something didn’t match in the schematic. I accidentally misconnected C53 directly to one end of L36 as the picture shows, I drew a dotted line where it was accidentally connected. I corrected that, and now I have video, but the focus is still terrible, and best at full rotation of the control. The picture seems pretty dim. Any additional brightness increase from the control will cause retrace lines, and even worse focus as well as blooming. Going to look more into it, and make sure there aren’t any resistor issues, but this kind of looks like a very weak picture tube.
Another odd clue is that the wire that I believe is going to the focus coil at one point in another life was arcing against the door knob cap. When I first turned the set on after recap, I got no raster and traced it back to a dead 1B3GT. I would think this arcing could have killed it, but could it have wounded something else?
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