Mike wrote:

nevermind. I pretty much figured out the pictuer tubes are wasted.

you try to turn the screen up, on lets say, red, the red will just fade out.

you turn it down, the red will just wash back in. it bleeds really badly.
its ****ed. :-)

Not at all. Just up the crt heater voltage, and all will be well for
years ahead. On sets that use 3 turns round the loptf core this is
especially easy, all you need is another 1 (or occasionally 2) turns
round the core. As an experiemnt I had an ok picture off an old sony
tube so bad nothing could be seen onscreen at all in its unboosted
state. Stayed good for years


NT