a real challange?

[Yamamaya42]

Originally Posted by Kevin Kuehn

Similarly you could remove R26 feeding B+ to the tuner, reinstall R39 and get an indication of whether it's mostly in the tuner or IF section. Of course there's the possibility that more than one caps are leaking. You can even go so far as to put a dc ma meter in series with R39 and you'll see the accumulative draw from each progressing stage. What would be very interesting is to see current draw with and without the RF and IF tubes installed. If it's the caps you'd still be seeing significant current being drawing without the tubes in. Time consuming work but very rewarding if you can narrow down the point of failure.

well I just ordered 21 of these, https://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/667-ECQ-E6152KF
they SAY the the ones in there are ceramic, but I am not sure what the hell they are, I tend to think they are more like the elmenco tubular ceramic shell caps bombs that were in my CTC-16LX, they went bad as well, i took one apart and it had wax seals on the ends, and to quote Electronic M, It is usually best to assume in any tube TV that any cap 1000pF (=.001uF) and up is paper unless it is flat disc ceramic or a later film type such as a Sprague orange drop.

I just should have replaced them all at first :/