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Found in my attic. Help!!

Chas
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10-03-2018, 02:30 PM

My Dad's Sparton smoked the selenium's on a regular basis. His Zenith B&W replacement did chug along for 5 or so years before needing a tube, but the pix was fading. Even my first Arvin portable B&W went for a few years then got intermittent. My first color sets were used Silvertones CTC-15 chassis, after the usual re-soldering, pix rejuvenation it was every 3-4 months needing chroma alignment, 6GH8's I bought in sleeves. I had two, when one crapped I had a spare and a jig to test it on. Even got bargains on re-built pix tubes and spare fly-backs... Said goodby to those time and $$$ eating monsters in '95... One-gun boosters, with a triple gun filament booster, storing the spare pix behind the couch Icon_crazy

The restoration and everyday or even occasional use of the TV will be a tough experiment for the average person...
Yes, it must be used regularly as the new electrolytic capacitors will fail even sooner... Keeping it off will not preserve it...

YMMV

Chas

Pliny the younger
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Found in my attic. Help!! - by 43ddoc - 10-02-2018, 12:01 PM

RE: Found in my attic. Help!! - by 35Z5 - 10-02-2018, 01:22 PM

RE: Found in my attic. Help!! - by klondike98 - 10-02-2018, 01:25 PM

RE: Found in my attic. Help!! - by klondike98 - 10-02-2018, 01:28 PM

RE: Found in my attic. Help!! - by 35Z5 - 10-02-2018, 01:55 PM

RE: Found in my attic. Help!! - by klondike98 - 10-02-2018, 02:01 PM

RE: Found in my attic. Help!! - by radio63 - 10-02-2018, 02:32 PM

RE: Found in my attic. Help!! - by 43ddoc - 10-02-2018, 03:47 PM

RE: Found in my attic. Help!! - by morzh - 10-02-2018, 04:46 PM

RE: Found in my attic. Help!! - by Jayce - 10-02-2018, 05:27 PM

RE: Found in my attic. Help!! - by Kestas - 10-02-2018, 09:15 PM

RE: Found in my attic. Help!! - by Chas - 10-03-2018, 10:10 AM

RE: Found in my attic. Help!! - by 35Z5 - 10-03-2018, 11:56 AM

RE: Found in my attic. Help!! - by morzh - 10-03-2018, 01:16 PM

RE: Found in my attic. Help!! - by Chas - 10-03-2018, 02:30 PM

RE: Found in my attic. Help!! - by 35Z5 - 10-03-2018, 02:56 PM

RE: Found in my attic. Help!! - by Chas - 10-03-2018, 03:18 PM

RE: Found in my attic. Help!! - by morzh - 10-03-2018, 03:43 PM

RE: Found in my attic. Help!! - by 35Z5 - 10-03-2018, 05:01 PM

RE: Found in my attic. Help!! - by Arran - 10-09-2018, 03:43 AM

RE: Found in my attic. Help!! - by 43ddoc - 08-16-2020, 03:31 PM

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