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08-10-2014, 05:06 PM
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Capehart 325 restoration
Way back in May, 2010 I came across this "raped curbside" Capehart on ebay.
http://www.videokarma.org/showthread...44#post2972644 That sparked another thread where pugs5061 was thinking about getting it: http://mail.videokarma.org/showthread.php?t=247970 Well flash forward to 2014 and the chassis is sitting on my back porch awaiting restoration   Now here's the rest of the story. I had been contact a few months back someone was referred to me by Phil Nelson who was in my area and looking to have a vintage Admiral TV restored. Well we got to talking and he said he also had some other sets he'd like restored someday too. He sent some photos and there it was - that same Capehart. It turns out he originally found it out on the curb (or maybe it was his wife ?) after the copper thieves neck it and made off with the yoke. He listed it on ebay several times and had some winning bidders but they never showed up to claim the TV so he kept it all this time. I also just so happened to have scored this original Farnsworth "160-AR" picture tube last year which was one of the CRTs used in this chassis. I don't thinks that's the original yoke, but the CRT has some life left.  So anyway, I agreed to make an attempt to bring it back to life. On the plus side,
On the negative side
I've been told I can probably use a Admiral or RCA yoke of the proper deflection angle as it shares a common circuit design. THat's good becuase I have some spares I can try. The HV cover looks very easy to fabricate. That leaves knobs and the control panel. Here's a photo of the control area. If anyone has some spare parts, please chime in  I believe "balance" is brightness and "shading" is fine-tuning. 
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