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Old 09-22-2015, 07:18 PM
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1976 Electrohome

For anyone who wants to see it.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/154129...57685538995083

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Old 09-22-2015, 08:05 PM
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Proof that the Canadians could make fake colonial style cabinets just as ugly as the Americans can. Still a cool find.
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Old 09-22-2015, 08:22 PM
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Well !! A COLD chassis with a VRT !!
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Old 09-23-2015, 06:28 AM
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Well !! A COLD chassis with a VRT !!
Also, the cabinet is made mostly of actual wood and it has a metal screen bezel. I was surprised.
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Old 09-23-2015, 07:23 AM
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Quite a few Electrohomes made it down here. They
were as good as most US sets & easy to fix. Advent
used them in the Video Beams along with Sylvania.
The Electros were better. Nice score, hows about some nudies
of it if you can.

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Old 09-23-2015, 07:34 AM
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Nice score, hows about some nudies
of it if you can.

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Old 09-23-2015, 09:07 AM
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Nudies=Open, back off, chassis pictures. It's in big use over on AK, where nudies of high-end stuff is popular.

Some of us like to "see the guts" of a set - hence the request for nudies.
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Old 09-23-2015, 09:12 AM
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Nudies=Open, back off, chassis pictures. It's in big use over on AK, where nudies of high-end stuff is popular.

Some of us like to "see the guts" of a set - hence the request for nudies.
Oh I see. I already did that, I don't understand how they were missed.
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Old 09-27-2015, 08:45 PM
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I've only seen Electrohome products in Photofacts; this is a solid looking set, inside and out. I personally like that cabinet style. Good find!
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Old 09-28-2015, 02:02 PM
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I've only seen Electrohome products in Photofacts; this is a solid looking set, inside and out. I personally like that cabinet style. Good find!
Thanks Bryan. I only recall seeing pre-Japanese Electrohomes in pictures before this one, and most of their console cabinets from that time are plain at best in my opinion. Also, they too copied the Avanté.
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Now I know why someone messed with convergence: the settings don't stick. Display a crosshatch pattern and watch the lines move frequently. Even in service mode I see separate lines. Any idea what's wrong? Again this has a C31 chassis.

On a side note, undo two bolts and the chassis slides back and tilts up for easy servicing.

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Old 07-22-2016, 08:29 AM
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I would look for cold joints on the conv. board first.
A little tapping around may smoke it out.
Also its not rare for the lines not to match up in
service position. Killing the vert takes away pulses needed
in the conv circuit.
For grey scale normally bring up the G2's one at a time
then back down til the line just disappears. After a good
warm up of course......

The VRT is a nice touch, add Electrohome to the list of users.
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Old 07-31-2016, 11:11 PM
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Last I fired it up the grid stayed still. Dirty service switch maybe? There's a blue shaping control I unfortunately cannot adjust because it requires a diddle stick.

There's a coil next to the fly. I wonder if this is for adjusting HV because I'd like to be able to swap in something other than the extra-leaded 25VCXP22. Not that I'm afraid of the lead, it's just that the exact CRT is hard to locate.
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Proof that the Canadians could make fake colonial style cabinets just as ugly as the Americans can. Still a cool find.
well . fake or not , I'm not sure what you say is a good thing for anyone, man ... Do not talk too much to say nothing . when you find a TV that pleases us, whether manufactured in the US or Canada, what does that change anything in your life? A vintage TV is always good to take, no matter her beauty or her condition, dear sir. I am Canadian and if I said the same thing when I find a TV that comes from elsewhere, it would be insulting to those from elsewhere in my sens..Voila my rant that does not happen often and I hope it will not happen again either !! ..


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well . fake or not , I'm not sure what you say is a good thing for anyone, man ... Do not talk too much to say nothing . when you find a TV that pleases us, whether manufactured in the US or Canada, what does that change anything in your life? A vintage TV is always good to take, no matter her beauty or her condition, dear sir. I am Canadian and if I said the same thing when I find a TV that comes from elsewhere, it would be insulting to those from elsewhere in my sens..Voila my rant that does not happen often and I hope it will not happen again either !! ..


Have a great day to all..
There was no insult in his comment as far as I can tell...Perhaps your from the french region and running his posts through a buggy translation program?
What He seemed to say the way I read it was: That in his opinion colonial style cabinets are ugly. And that the Canadians were as good at making that style of cabinet as we were.

From here on my moderator talk ends and I talk personally as a collector.

Personally I prefer sets in styles that were considered modern when a set was new, and when I can choose between identical chassis in modern, colonial, Mediterranean, or our very own but-ugly Early American cabinet style, I always go for the modern cabinet (they just look that much more swanky/cool to me).
There are three reasons I buy a set, to preserve an example of something rare (or cheap ), for an example of interesting circuitry design, or for a cool looking cabinet. I save as much as I can, but sorry to say that the common sets with generic boring chassis have to have a really cool cabinet for me to give them a second look. If a set is super rare or has a really cool/good chassis/circuit in it then I will save it even if the cabinet was intentionally designed to be ugly.

We can't save every set (especially here in the radio/TV belt), and drawing lines based on personal taste is a valid approach to limit ourselves to a practical intake of sets.
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