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Chad, Bill, and Eric, Thanks for the input... I agree on re-capping it being the best, but I hate to put that much time into it. I might end up doing that though. I'll borrow a Sams when I get a chance, and will start re-capping at the junction of the horizontal output and work backwards through the oscillator. I never use these sets much, so if it comes on and shows a picture for a few minutes that will do. I have completely re-capped and aligned one of my Kaye-Halberts, and that one is the one I use if I feel like watching an old movie. But my biggest re-cap job (AND NEVER AGAIN!!!!!!!!) was an RCA 741PCS 41-tube projection set. I did all that, and watched Johnny Carson's final broadcast on it and I can't remember ever using it again. Gary Miller bought it from me a few years later, and I think he used it once too... But using any electronic or mechanical device too infrequently is BAD too. I have picked up several 50s vintage TVs that had been in weekly or monthly use, and all worked great without recapping. But on the other hand, I have a new-in-box Panasonic CT-101 color 1.5" pocket tube set that has all kinds of cap-related problems due to nonuse :deadhorse .
I frown on seleniums too, but these seem OK. Nice full raster. If I jump them, that might boost the B+ enough to speed up the ruin of any original caps... Just a theory but it's like doing a valve job on a 250,000 mile engine without rebuilding the bottom end I suppose.
This KCS-100D does seem quite simple and with very few tubes, so I won't expect it to perform like a big DuMont... The thing that I like about this one is that I have seen dozens of red ones, white, black, and gray and this one is a strange bluish hammertone gray. (Original paint). Never seen one this color before. Saw one dark green one once too.
Charles
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