Luckily nobody viewed that post, because I stopped being an idiot and managed to rip the circuit board out of my tv. Now onto the good stuff.
I picked up a nice big tv that the convergence is all screwy on. The guy had it for 7 years already and said he got his money out of it. I lugged that heavy 242 lb TV up two flights of stairs with my brother's help and tore it apart in my living room.
I tested all of the convergence resistors and they all were within their tolerances. I also tested just about every resistor that looked big enough that I'd feel comfortable attempting to replace and found two 27K Ω 2w resistors that just let the juice flow, no resistance at all. Not sure what they're for yet but it looked like they had something to do with Audio.
I started poking around and found a few globs of an off white silicon in a few spots on the back of the D board, or convergence board I guess. One of the globs is holding in place what looks to be a previous repair where a 1uF 50v capacitor was soldered between the leads of a 100uF 16v capacitor and a 1K Ω 1/4w resistor. I have no idea what that's all about but I tested the resistor and it was good!
I plugged the TV in before I tore it apart and tried to adjust the convergence with the remote. If I held down the right button to move the red line to the green, the red line would get almost to touch the green but then it would start moving away back towards where it came from until I let go of the button. When I was finished adjusting the convergence I shut the tv off, and when I turned it back on the convergence was real screwy again. There's definately something wrong and I'd like to know if anyone has any idea what the problem is.
Any input's appreciated, thanks.
you can also adjust the convergence via the tabs on the crt,on the red crt one tab will move it vertically and the will move it horizontal,mark it before you do it so you can move it back to where it was if it doesnt work out right.