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We get a ch 7.3 RTV from Detroit which has some old shows, but I've never seen Hawaii-5-0 on it. I've heard that you can get it on a ch 38 from Detroit, but I haven't been able to pull that one in.
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I looked up channel 38 on TV Guide's web site and on Google, and found the following information. It is WADL-TV, licensed to Mt. Clemens, Michigan; the station is a 5-megawatt UHF television station that serves the Detroit metropolitan area. I don't know where Mt. Clemens is except that it is a Detroit suburb. However, from where you are, you should be able to get channel 38 both OTA in digital and, of course, on cable. The TV Guide listing also showed a subchannel (WADL-DT1), that is mostly sports programming, branded "US 38"--at least at night. I don't know about their daytime programming.
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Oh no, vertical shrink I fall asleep on the couch watching this set last night and wake up in the middle of the night to see the set lacking in vert size (only by about 1" top and bottom). Haven't looked into it yet. This is why I don't collect color sets in quantity anymore, they seem to constantly need repairs, in comparison after I fix a b/w set it tends to stay fixed.
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did you try to adj the vert height? mine has a slight keystone horz going on, I fear the yoke but have not checked a thing on it yet.
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I brought the picture back to full size adjusting the vert height and lin controls, but something must have drifted in value to cause that, so I don't know if it'll stay put or get worse, but I've been watching it for an hour or so now, seems ok.
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problems with focus
Now I turn this set on, and the picture comes up not in focus, takes it about 15 minutes or so for the focus to gradually get better. Any likely causes I should be looking for?
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First, check the CRT socket for any corrosion around the focus pin. If that's OK, you likely have a bad HV tripler or focus divider. Some early versions of this set used a seperate focus divider and HV tripler. The later ones used a tripler with a built in focus divider (NTE526, IIRC). If your set is the older type with the seperate focus divider and tripler, you can use one of the newer triplers to replace both parts.
In the early '90's, someone gave me a 19" "F" line Zenith CCII that had the exact same problem and the trouble was a defective tripler. |
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I agree to check the crt socket first. Look to see if there's any green corrosion on the focus pin, and clean it. Sometimes, there are carbon trails inside the socket between the spark gaps, and the socket needs to be replaced.
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I finally got back to this set, the crt socket was ok, tripler was bad. I replaced it with one of those focus divider/triplers in one unit. The picture is now better than it ever was. I also went and swapped out those 5 white .0018-1.6kv capacitors known for causing problems, while I was in there.
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Here's a pic of it working...
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Nice, curious it she width correct, or does the sweep seem to far on the right? I have a 25DC56 and I lose quite a bit on the right, can see no adj for width or horz position to center up the loss.
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I picked up the hang-tag for this tv. Here's scans of it...
I also picked up some of those channel numbers with it, thinking I would finally not have to have duplicate numbers on my set, but they don't fit, they're too tall. It's odd, I wonder if they got mixed up with those from another set. |
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Not to be picayunish, but the severed neck didn't exactly fall off as it was still captured inside the yoke which was securely strapped to the jug. The only ones i ever seen were cut right where the neck joins the bell.
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That tuner and controller can be a bit quirky, and there were two versions of it (electromechanical and full-electronic), and the electromechanical one sometimes gets problems with tuner drifting and lights going out. Again, cleaning and touching up solder connections will fix that. Charles
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