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Todays Goodwill finds
Well I stopped by the local Goodwill store again today, and here is what I found. Not really sure what I will do with all these small tv sets. I have no idea what the Vidicraft unit is for, well I do know, but I don't know what I will do with it. The Sencore vc93 i really do not have a use for, yet, but I thought no one there even knew what it was. Either I will eventually get a va62, or someone else may need it. Who knows.
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The Emerson looks like its color..
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The Emerson is color and from 1998. The Magnavox is also color from 1987.
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I think I used to have a red-case version of the magnavox. Does it have a green-led clock?
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I have never been able to luck-up on finding a piece of Sencore equipment @ a thrift store. You sure were lucky on that one!
Back when I was in the biz, I only had one piece of Sencore equipment. It was a $500 isolation transformer/variac/leakage tester. Sencore's high prices were way out-of-line compared to their competition. They made some great test equipment, but you sure paid for them. I had mostly B&K brand stuff on my bench. |
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I just picked up a VA48 analyzer. They're the ones, that aren't as desirable as the newer one. It seems like a newer generation B&K analyst. Like GE, it's good enough for now. |
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I assume the PR57. I got a nice one for about $65 with shipping on Ebay maybe 7 years ago or so....and a CR-70 a GOOD One-- works VERY well--for maybe 75....And a VA-62 (NOT 48) for maybe $35, 10 or so years ago.... 25 years ago--all of that would have cost OVER 5 THOUSAND dollars !! |
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I remember Sencore tried to sell it by suggesting we charge the customer an extra fee ($2 or something along those lines) for a "Safety Leakage Check" on every TV we repaired. They even gave me a supply of stickers to put on the back of the set that said it had been "safety checked". The only problem was by that time, there were very few points on the average TV set that the customer could come in contact with to get a shock even if there were a problem. The input jacks were about it. Does anyone remember going to a Sencore sponsored troubleshooting class? They used to sponsor them occasionally, and they were pretty good (if you were careful to realize what they were really teaching was how to troubleshoot using their equipment). I went to one on servicing VCR servo systems, and another on switched mode power supplies. I think I've even got my completion certificates around somewhere. |
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The guy I bought the VA48 from, also frequents E-Bay for selling prices. It's a shame that there's absolutely no support of Sencore equipment available. Their lifetime guarantee isn't worth the paper it's printed on. |
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He was checking some tubes, that were donated, on a Mighty-Mite. There was several tubes, he couldn't check, such as 45's. There was no way, those tubes were going to be sold at that store. |
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The magnavox does have a green led clock. The sencore piece cost a whopping $2.99. Now I will have to find a va62.
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I have not seen a microfiche reader in over a decade.
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I still have a microfiche reader. What I need is a way to scan all the fiche into pdf files.
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microfiche was antiquated years ago.. brings back memories of the library in the early 90s.
That color Magnavox from '87 probably cost a lot of $ back then. My parents had a G.E. spacemaker color set with fm am radio from that same year, and it cost a lot for such a small set. Had a Matsushita crt in it. |
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