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Originally Posted by Andrew2
I remember having fun & games with that section of dropper. It's at the bottom of the heater chain I think, and it's there to develop a low voltage from which the transistor stages run. It goes o/c and allows the voltage to rise. The exact fault symptoms depend on which components pop!
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Me and my Dad rescued one (a 24" plastic cabinet version with the square tuner buttons with the screw slot for tuning) from a skip
and sure enough, this section of dropper had gone open circuit, the symptoms being faint shortwave radio sound and a light grey raster. In my case though, just one transistor had gone - I forget which. The only other fix was gluing one of the CRT mounts with some special plastic melting type of glue.