Amplifone deflection recap, now spot killer on.

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I have an amplifone in my Star Wars. My deflection board in it started only showing the top half of the screen. I put a spare I had in it to see if it worked. Viola, 2nd deflection board worked and looked good however the caps in it were very old. I pulled it out and recapped it and reflowed it. Put it back in and spot killer is on. I've gone back through it and can't see anything wrong, solder joints look good, rechecked my caps and they are the correct values.

Put it down and went back to the first deflection board. I replaced the bottle cap transistors, however was working fast and didn't double check my work and installed one backwards. Put it in and it blew the transistor and a resistor in line of it caught fire. *facepalm* it also shorted the msu-007 attached it along with the fuse. I have tested my pcb elsewhere and do know it's good. I want to figure out what's wrong with the deflection board that has the spot killer on after the recap anyone have suggestions.
 
Anyone have any ideas? i sat down and metered out about 1/2 board last night and everywhere i checked had continuity to the next contact. Going to meter out the rest of it soon.
 
POst a nice hi res picture of both sides of the board. Have you already replaced the zero ohm (W1-W8) jumpers?

Here are some pics
 

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One more pic. And I did replace the jumpers already.
 

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R8 looks like to got hot at some point. Don't think it would cause your spot killer to be on. I would personally start testing the small transistors as they are easy to pull and test out of circuit.
 
This has been fixed. Unknown to me the hot glue on the x and y adjustment pots was still on the pots but wasn't actually holding the pot. They some how got turned to almost max during my cap job and so they were causing the spot killer to be on. Got them readjusted and the game looks great now
 
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