picked up a 1979 Sony Trinitron KV5100 New in box
 

Reccently picked up a New in box Trinitron KV5100 with the manual and all the paperwork for $50 on kijiji.

Oh man!! That was my first color TV. I’d kill for a NIB model! (Well, not really, but you get the picture) :)

Lots of great memories with that set, although most of my childhood was spent with B&W, trinitron was a wonder. I kept buying them all the way to the bitter end. Still miss my last one which had a great picture but weighed a ton (almost literally) and we jettisoned it to go “flat panel on wall”.

Sad.

A few years ago someone traded me a working one for repair work on a RCA CTC16 roundy.

A few years ago I made an effort to make my first HD set a used SONY Super-fine-pitch HD-CRT set and I've managed to keep using it as a daily driver.

Your inuyasha profile picture takes me back.

I am loving this set. Although I think it's pincushion circuit may be going, or it may need a recap job. Holidays are coming up though...

I’m not sure the 5000, or 5100 model had any pincushion circuitry. Don’t remember. I have both models. Does yours have econoquick?

Never mind. Looking closer at the first picture it has econoquick silkscreens on the sun filter. KV-5000’s didn’t have econoquick. I believe the heater had some voltage on it at all time that it was plugged into AC power.

yes it does have econoquick, says so below the UHF knob. and there are unpopulated pads on one of the pcbs for a pincusion correction circuit.

These were a popular "arm" sets in hospitals especially ICU's.
They would mount an SO259 on top & a PL250 on the arm to
mount it. This carried 25VAC with the RF riding on it. Inside they added
a small 12 V power supply & stripped off the RF.
After about 10 yrs most started using 9" Zeniths using the same scheme.
They held up well considering years of almost constant use.

73 Zeno:smoke:
LFOD !

that's a cool piece of historical fact right there.