[TV MAN]

I got some recappin done in the C2 area, which feeds the H osc & Video stage. What a pain! That C2 is buried and has like 20 wires (ok, exagerated some, but ya get the idea)! I didnt just want to clip the pins off the cap - even if I could actually get in there to do it, so I did the diagram, pictures and wire by wire. With all those critical IF and video coils there I didn't want to disturb them if I could avoid. I finally decided on a vertical terminal strip soldered (but not connecting to) the the old caps pins to hold the wires in place. I found a nice open place to put the caps near the vertical  section. I don't think there will be a problem doing this. I also replaced a bumble bee cap on the AGC, and a way out of spec resistor feeding the 2nd IF tube. I also replaced that 1k resistor that had been hot and checked at 1.6k. Easy right? Nope, fought that thing for over an hour! Finally got it.

   

I did a power up tonight and below are what happened when the juice hit! I believe that is snow! A very good sign!
   

Shot a signal in on channel 4 and ... well, not so great. But, I have horizontal lock now!
   

Time to troubleshoot. So, Next I went to the 1st video stage and injected a signal into the grid. This is what I got. Not too shabby!
   

With that working pretty good, I went to the 1st IF stage and injected a signal. This is what I got:
 Same. In fact, I can easily overdrive it. I had to back the signal down quite a but is exactly the same as injecting the video stage, so everything is working from the 1st video IF onward. So, I have a problem either with the tuner, possible weak tube, or AGC. Sound is coming through. There's some out of spec resistors on the B+ supply on several IF stages, but if it works ok, I'm probably not going to mess with them so hopefully not to mess up the alignment. I might jump them with another resistor value that will put them in spec and see of that changes anything, but it looks like things are working OK as it is.