Anyone Have a Junker Sony KV-8000?

[jhalphen]

Hi to All,

Received from Germany a wrecked KV-9000E 9" Sony color TV.

I am furious. A**hole seller "packed" the set in a huge box with no bubble wrap, no peanuts, a few scraps of crumpled paper and no protection whatsoever.

Result: the set rolled about freely in the box and arrived with the front aluminum decorative face ripped from its mounting tabs and the plexiglas screen protection exploded. Miraculously, the CRT survived and the electronics work.

This is an interesting model, it's the PAL version of the physically identical USA KV-8000E and it has a monitor input so it can be used with a DVB-T tuner, DVD, etc.

I am therefore looking for a junker KV-8000 to swap the front face and the plexiglas screen. Anything sleeping in your garage or found at a yard sale? please quote me your price by PM.

See pictures of the KV-9000E - intact before shipping. The KV-8000's front face is identical.

Thanks! for any help,

Best Regards

jhalphen
Paris/France

[Sandy G]

Doncha just LOVE IT ?!? People are such jerks..

[Electronic M]

Have a LD player that got that ebay shipping treatment, looked good but needed the macguiver treatment to fix the decimated laser pickup transport and loading mechanism....But I still got it to work so I was happy.

[CoogarXR]

I have Sony that looks like that. I am 95% sure it's an 8000. It's in one of my outbuldings right at the moment. I took it out of service because the color would take a while to come on (it starts out black and white, then the color comes on eventually). I put it in my "fix someday" pile, heh.

If you are interested, shoot me an offer. I bet shipping would be expensive though, that thing is pretty heavy for a portable.

[etype2]

Saw 2 of these on Ebay recently.

[kx250rider]

That European version has different controls and different screen printing on the front panel. The US KV-8000 has "picture" where "volume" is on the Euro set, and US has "Pull ON/Volume", where the Euro has a "power" pushbutton. The plastic screen cover may be the same US/Europe.

I may still have a junker KV-8000, but not sure if the front face is any good. The TV is beat-up, so I'll have to go look at it in storage, and see what shape it's in.

Charles

[jhalphen]

Hi Gentlemen,

Thank You! for the response.

CoogarXR: Thanks! for the offer. I will keep it on the back burner for now.

KX250 Charles: sharp observation! still better a pretty face with wrong legends that an ugly warped face. I guess Sony had one worldwide aluminum front panel made, then labelled according to selling zone.
On standby until you give news of your junker.

I'm hoping to be able to get only the face and plexiglas (flat packaging) and not have to ship a 30lb complete chassis from the US - big carton, big expense.

I've got a working true NTSC KV-8000 i purchased at the ETF Convention 2011. Harry Poster shipped and therefore arrived in perfect condition.

Also a "transgender" KV-8000, transformed into a PAL/SECAM monitor in 1981.
Still works fine!

Best Regards

jhalphen
Paris/France