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Good to see another "kid" getting into tv repair/restoration. I was a tv repair person
starting at about 12? I Donknow. My town use to pick up "junk" each Friday. As the bus
took us home, my eyes were always pealed ! My dad was in the army, and had tons
of old radio and tv books around. He also took a few correspondence courses after
the army, so all those kits were kicking around the house. I studied the books, and
there were sooooo many tv's thrown out, I had a new one each week to play with.

I would fix them and then sell them, Later in high school, I went to BOCES a trade school
Late 70's they still had TV Repair as a class. I think it was a great youth, not something
you see today. I had competition for the thrown out tv's there was 2 other kids in town
that I had to beat to the "good Stuff" Back then good stuff was newer stuff - easier
and more likely to be able to sell to someone.... Smaller too....

It would be best if you learned how these things worked before you get too
far into something and made mistakes, or got frustrated. Check out ebay,
look for tv repair books by Sams, they were pretty good, I learned using them,
we had them in our BOCES class, theye was one book for B&W TV, and one for
COLOR ! Ours was a 2 year course, so If you learned on 50's B&W sets, and
resold what you fixed, you would learn a lot, and not have too many B&W
sets you may not want sitting around, and then got into color sets....
B&W are easier, less weight, you can get some 9T240's for almost nothing.
And you'll build some good muscles working on it, especially if you can't
leave it out all the time....

And don't listen these replace everything nuts, replace the power supply
capacitors, if you must, then turn it on and get it working right, then
replace parts that they will all line up and tell you you MUST replace or it
will EXPLODE and burn your house down...... geeezzzz.

I never did this restoration stuff, I've fixed them, made sure the circuits are
working right, and let them alone. Balance it out, not every part needs to be
replaced, and replacing parts till you get the bad part is not the way to do it...

Take your time, learn radios first, get a few cheap 5 tube radios off ebay
and learn how to fix them, by fixing them you'll understand how they work...

Anyway, good luck....

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