Sony TV-950 Saved from Goodwill Recycling
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Hello everyone, today (well actually yesterday) I had spotted in one of the donation lowboys at the Goodwill I work at a late 1960s Sony TV-950 B & W portable TV that was still in extremely good shape, including the original rod antenna and I thought about asking them yesterday if I could buy it off them (since they don't take TVs anymore) and I never did it so I came back to work today and I went to see if the lowboy that the TV was in was still there and sure enough it wasn't so I went to look in some of the recycling lowboys and sure enough it was there but the cord was cut off of it so I asked my boss that was working today if I could buy it off of the recycling even though the cord was cut off and she said it was fine and I got it for a $1.99.
So I have to wire on a new cord to see if it still works or not, and hopefully rewiring the cord isn't too convoluted on this TV or else its just going to have to be a display piece. Its really dirty and the reason why I said it was probably from the late 1960s is because it has the Continuous UHF instead of the Click-Stop UHF. I have some pictures of the aforementioned unit for you guys to look at. |
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If you decide to keep it, you can do it properly. |
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Continuous UHF tuners were around till the early-mid 70's. I think it was somewhere between 1973-75 when they were banned on most TVs.
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Sony used that style of cord for years and years....I have a 1964 Sony TV, and 70's RTR tape machines with it. The danger is though many of those cords mechanically interchange not all of them send the same voltages to the same terminals. If you ever find a set without a cord and a separate cord elsewhere it would be wise to confirm pin-out and voltage match before applying power.
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This TV was also a Cold Chassis set surprisingly enough which is the other reason why I think this TV predates the 1970s because I think that by the 1970s most portable TVs (specifically 13" or smaller sets, this set being a 9") were Hot Chassis sets, from what little research I was able to do on portable TVs. The other dead give away is that it uses Germanium Transistors inside the unit instead of Silicone Transistors which I think that by the 1970s they started to phase out Germanium Transistors in favor of Silicone Transistors. |
Almost all if not all early sets that ran on 12 VDC used
a power transformer. Latter sets sometimes used a multivibrator & higher voltages to run the set. RCA comes to mind. Its all about economics. 73 Zeno:smoke: |
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I have a similar Sony, that was made for world wide use. It has two switches on top, one for 120/220 volts and one for different regions. I don't remember the legends, but when it's switched, the picture rolls and the sound gets distorted. It even has channel one, plus UHF. :thmbsp: |
And I have seen ONE GE "XB"hot chassis set--from the mid-70's or so that used a switcher to step UP the 12 volt input for the chassis. It had to be mid-70's or so.
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Well Anyways I'm surprised no one on here had mentioned anything about this one being a good save, because I know that the Montgomery Wards TV I saved and posted about on here everyone was talking about and saying how much of a good save that one was but when I save this old Sony regardless of whether or not it was from the '60s or the '70s should of been considered just as good of a save because its a lot earlier than the Montgomery Wards set I saved earlier.
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Sony in that era had the really small portable TV market in the palm of it's hand. It is not a very rare set compared to the wards.
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Yes, it was a good save! Ask the person that has control of the disposition of electronic salvage, to let you see the items, before they cut the cords off or do other damage. The worst, they could say is "NO". :sigh: BTW, My main interest is small screen color sets, like your Wards set. As stated before, I do have several small screen B/W sets, including "jelly bean sets" but they were mostly "Freebees". |
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What's interesting is that they did put a couple of small portable TVs on the floor, one of them a Realistic 5" portable color TV with Video inputs and outputs on it and an external antenna connection from 1989, and the other one a Hitachi 5" B & W portable from the early 1980s with external antenna connections as well (both had their original rod antennas intact yet). Anyways It seems if the TV is a small enough portable TV they will put it out on the floor. They also had a late 1980s Sony Watchman in their donation bin one day that was still in really good shape yet that was I think scrapped out. |
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BTW, you should buy the Realistic 5" set if it's reasonable enough. One thing nice about them is they're not that large and you can use it for a monitor for VCR repair. |
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I'll check the Screen control Adjustment. The Sony Has the same issue I noticed, so I guess I'll check the screen control on it as well. |
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As for my Montgomery Wards TV the Brightness has to be turned all the way up in order to see the picture otherwise you can't see anything, I was told that it might be an adjustment on the Flyback that needs to be adjusted (screen control?) but other than that I'm hoping that the picture tube isn't about dead on it because that would be rather odd for a TV that saw little use to have a failing picture tube already, especially when the color is fine yet just the brightness is a little off for some reason on it. |
Great save.
I think I have a set similar like this set. I agree.Those PITA Sony power cords.Panasonic follows,are a nightmare If you dont get the right pinout and voltage info . Pop goes the weasel. |
CRT's almost always fail due to low emission. On a
B&W symptoms are dark pix, negative pix, streaking of bright areas, slow warm up & overly bright whites with no detail or any combination of..... Best test is darken the room, turn down the bright & contrast. If it looks a lot better its the CRT 99%. All fixes are risky ( except a new CRT ) Rejuvenation, only use a MODERN CRT checker for this made after the early 70's. Brighteners only work on some sets. Most sets have a low ohm resistor in series with the filament. It can be jumped out to give a little more E but again risky. As far as waking it up goes regular use will usually improve things but its a process that goes on just like people getting old & slowing down...... 73 Zeno:smoke: |
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