1959 Admiral 17" b/w with remote control

[Adam]

I have good sound, HV, bright picture, vertical, but horizontal oscillator frequency is way low. I start adjusting it, but once it gets up to around 14.2KHz I hear something arcing in the HV cage and the frequency drops by about 2KHz. So I remove the HV cage, turn out the lights, and see if I can see anything. But I see nothing, it seems to be coming from inside the fly itself. The good news is I found one on epay, so now I just have to wait for it to show up. The HV cage was full of sawdust when I got it. At first I thought it had been a mouse house, but there was no mouse crap or bad smell, just loads of sawdust It is possible it just fell in through the vents on the top, but it still seems weird.

The power tuning works. The remote I have is a newer model, not the one that originally went with this set. It was seized up with rust, I just unseized it and the channel button works, but not the volume. I don't know if they changed the frequency, my rusty remote just isn't working at the right frequency, or there actually is something wrong with the receiving unit. But for now I'm going to wait for the new fly and fix the horizontal problems before I mess around with the remote stuff.

The other problem I had with this set was that the resistors in series with the filament string were open, but all the tubes were ok, except for the HO which was missing.