[Kenwood] TS-850 mixer coil, display contrast

[Martin Sole]

Hi,

I've been working on a TS850 that has sat on the floor for a few years 
gathering dust, literally. When retired it had, and stil has, need of L6 
on the second IF, audio board. L6 is the same as L4 and L5 and is a 6mm 
cube can at 8.83MHz but in the L6 position tuned to 8.375 to inject CAR4 
into the first TX mixer.

I've seen complete boards on eBay but consider that total overkill for 
just one transformer. Wonder if someone might have a bad board they 
could pull parts from? My other thought is to maybe wind something on a 
tiny toroid. What say?

Second question concerns the display. It's working fine now the leaky 
caps have been replaced and the failed vias rewired but I find the 
contrast strange. It's okay if my eyes are in line with the display or 
below it but I see every segment of the entire display as soon as my 
eyes are higher then the display. This doesn't seem right and I'm sure 
it should have a wider vertical viewing angle. Any ideas?

Thanks
Martin, HS0ZED