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I have a MS8-26SU that I am a bit stumped on.

After getting everything setup I'm getting an extremely dim image that has a lot of wavy noise in the background.

As far as I know through testing my signal source is clean. The brightness pot needs to be at about 80/90% before a reasonably bright image appears and is pretty much blank in the lower 70%.

I measure perfect B+ with 92V on the test points, I have a good syncing source, there are no obviously leaking capacitors, no excessive 15khz noise, and no obvious deflection or geometry issues, so I am unfortunately a bit stumped.

There were a few bad/dry solder joints but nothing too crazy, and I didn't fix anything by re-flowing the bad joints. The chassis does have the classic Nanao heat damage near the center, but there doesn't appear to be any lifted pads and all large resistors seem to test OK! (I haven't measured all of the tiny ones)

In the mean time I have some capacitors on the way and will do a little more digging into the neck board. I've read on NG forums that the electrolytic on the neck board can be the culprit for dark image, but I will believe it when I see it.

If anyone has any ideas let me know! The convergence and geometry adjustments I can handle. I just hope I don't have a bum tube.
 

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definitely get those caps in and see where you are. Flybacks are prone to failure on the MS8s but thankfully you can still get replacements for the MS8-26.
 
Understood! I will see what I can figure out.

Would a failing flyback still show good B+ voltage before completely failing? Since I do get a full color image it doesn't seem like I have failed transistors.

Thanks as always for the help.
 
good B+ just means that the power going INTO the Flyback is good, the job of the flyback itself is to take your B+ voltage and convert that into the ~16000V necessary to charge the tube.
 
Have you adjusted the SCREEN pot on the flyback? Turn it up.
 
After performing a bunch of maintenance on this I wanted to report my findings and what worked for me.

Lot's of bad/dry/missing?? solder joints in places that are easy to skip over visually.

The high temperature part in the center of the board is worse than it looks at first glance.

Doing a cap kit really brought the geometry in pretty well without a lot of tweaking

NARROW mode seems to be the way to go all of the time at least for me.

C332 helped give subjectively more saturated color

Nasty lifted solder pads @ C431, C432, and C433. I did a scrape and stick with some long legs and it seems to be holding well.

R433 and 436 were measuring fine but I put in nice new ones anyway.

Need to fix the dynamic convergence in the bottom next chance I have time to mess around. Working great and looking great now! There were no major failures just needed some TLC.
 

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