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Here's a pic of the set after I did a quickie convergence on it and changed some more filter caps. Color is now working great with a new crystal and a new tuner tube.
This is one bright pic tube, I'm gonna throw the brightener they had on it in my parts box, after my fixes to things like the crapping-out surge resistor killing juice to the set, it is totally not needed. I guess one could expect that on one of these old monsters sometimes, after about 10 years it starts to break down for the 48th time and owners won't spring for any more repairs BUT repairman says oh well we can put a brightener on it for only 5 bucks, what the heck, you're going to junk it anyway, right? In goes the brightener. I mean yeah most of the time brighteners were put on after the tube and set were tested but I bet other times they were just slapped on as a last low-expense gasp to keep the thing alive before it was hauled to the dump because they didn't want to put any more $ in it.
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