plays blind, I can hear high current noise (a chirp first then an stable low pitched hum ) after powering it ON but no neck glow, meassured B+ at TP2 at 76volts DC, when powering OFF it doesn't discharge the tube so I assume no current is passin to the CRT....
The neckboard has had its socket replaced at some point with another one taken from a MS8-29, but after further inspection on the solder side of the PCB I have found that some pins are not making contact because there are no solder pads:
4 and 12 pads are tottally gone, while the others look bad, checked ok for continuity, I tried to follow where these pins with missing solder pads go but found nothing??...where do these go?
Its not the flyback, the MS9 guide says I must check Q908, Q904 and ZD901 but I cannot find where those are, ZD901 should be on the parts side but its empty there , unless they are on the solder side where all I can see there is those small black mosfet-like SMD components...
