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When I took electronics class in high school (early 90's) there was a GR-2000 (in a console cabinet) in the back of the classroom. It had all of the assembly/service manuals and remote. I managed to get it working, that was fun... I don't imagine it is still there.
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I built a Heathkit GR-104C (?) 12-inch B&W TV kit around 1979. It had a nice copper-plated chassis.
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I'd still LOVE to build a little Heathkit B/W set. I'm afraid it'll never happen though....I don't wanna build an LCD set. Would be so cool if the reborn Heathkit would be able to source some 5"-9" B/W CRTs from somewhere or other....and put together a nice solid state kit even, with GREAT block diagrams and explanation of how TV "used" to run.
Maybe they could even come up with a little inhouse transmitter kit to go along with this thing. I tried to build those Ramsey transmitters....and they SUCK as far as performance. Just too basic and you could only get one to barely transmit sound OR picture (hard to get both at once)...for like three feet.
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I built a GR-2050, a 21 " color TV. It took me a week to put it together. I kept it for years and finally got rid of it because of the size and hoe cheap flat screen TV were.
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I would like to build a TV but Heathkit were very expensive then.I had to stick with Radio Shack in the 1970's and 80's and later Ramsey.
I always thought they were over priced but its a educational experience. I doubt much if the new incarnation HK if still alive will release any CRT TV's since the DTV switch over.Probably nobody on here that is interested in building a flat screen set. What would be interesting for me to build is one of those big jumbo LED screens with the multiple color LEDs use to produce the pix.It probably cost $$$$$$$ bucks for it. I've probably read on here or ARF that Ramsey is phasing out their kits this year. My late sisters boyfriend built a HK color set in the late 1960's or early 1970's .I dont recall which model it was. Over the years he replaced the pix tube.He had it up to the early 2000's before he dumped it.I wish I known that.I would take it of his hands. He said he absolutely enjoyed building it and it was a heck of a learning experience doing it. |
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I have a Heathkit 21" color console set from the 70's with on screen display, been up at my cabin for years, might haul back this spring if I can find someone interested in it, Tube is good, sound was not working when last used- i had used a stereo for sound from VHS movies. I do have the manuals for it. A friends uncle built it, and later gave it to me. its an interesting set, you have to program the on screen display with jumper wires. i think it has a video input, I dont recall using a modulator with it.
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A guy near here had a bunch of unbuilt Heathkits on craigslist, I went to see them. One was a TV like this, with a spare CRT - very similar to a SS Zenith.
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I've got a 2000 and a 2001. The difference is the 2001 has keypad entry and the 2000 only has up and down channel selection.
They convert easily to video input with only a handful of components.
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I'm still looking for a GR-180, built or unbuilt, with the correct type CRT.
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