@Tggzzz : that's some intense nerdery, what a decoration !
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Your wife supporting that must be a gem....
OK a broken weld inside... that's more difficulty to spot ! Pun again, spot weld !
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Oh dear, what's wrong with me today !
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@AVG : Hack saw blade indeed works a treat, job done, 5 minutes tops ! Because I am a tough guy (not!) I didn't even wrap it with tape. So I can now see inside the socket...
@Papa Smurf : ... now that I am inside, I can see the pins are NOT soldered, the terminals are crimped ! Hmmm..... what if some are dodgy...
So I wiggled a bit the socket, what's left of it I mean, while looking very closely are each wire, where they enter the terminal. This way I could 100% positively say that pin #14 is not crimped properly : I can see the wire coming in and out of the terminal as I wiggle the socket !!! So at least one intermittent connection there. Pin #14 is one of the two heater filaments.
Then I grabbed the DMM and checked continuity of all the other pins, and think I found another one with an intermittent connection : pin #11. This is one of the two horizontal deflection plate.
So.... some hope maybe. Maybe I can try to put some solder inside these two terminal, hoping that would weld the wire inside it ? But that's assuming the wire is not coated in corrosion, or the solder won't make a good contact either
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Have to go, neighbour just knocked on the door, saying I can borrow his truck and trailer... need to go get some gravel for the front yard... see you later then.