You can go down so many rabbit holes with these older TVs. Core turning with resistance like its moving??? I would have ended up tracing it to the coil and then giving up on it cursing the TV Gods. Great, deep dig and solution!
I've been following along, and this has been an interesting one with an unexpected ending to the horizontal. I'm honestly surprised the set works as well as it does with those Elmenco caps---I've never seen a good one yet