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Old 01-13-2018, 10:24 PM
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Oops! Made a recapping error! Before I do an alignment I take small pieces of masking tape and ID the places I need to hook to during the alignment. In the Sams these consist of letters A thru F. All went well till finding test point F. Test point F is at the junction of R22, R20, and C13. When examining that spot I noticed that C13 wasn't at the junction! It was at the "bottom" of R20. I checked my notes and sure enough I soldered C13 to the wrong terminal. I soldered it to terminal 3 (counting L to R) instead of 4. I easily moved it to the right spot and labeled test pont F. I never would have caught that if I wasn't pre-labeling those test points. Excuse me while I go buy a couple of Lottery tickets!



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Old 01-13-2018, 10:55 PM
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The picture is getting better by just watching TV. Star Trek to be exact.

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Old 01-16-2018, 12:55 PM
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I'm done with the alignment and now on to some details.
I noticed this from the beginning. There some white horizontal lines that "flash" every so often. They are usually near the top of the screen. This happened before I did the retrace blanking mod. They increase in brightness with the "Brightness" knob. If the picture is just a little too dark, they almost disappear.
I've cleaned all the tube sockets and their pins.
Any ideas. Thanks.

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Old 01-16-2018, 01:38 PM
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Is that an example at Spocks chin?

Is that perhaps a 60 hz "hum bar" from the bright line down to the chest insignias on both characters? (does it slowly move up through the picture?)

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Old 01-16-2018, 01:56 PM
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Is that an example at Spocks chin?

Is that perhaps a 60 hz "hum bar" from the bright line down to the chest insignias on both characters? (does it slowly move up through the picture?)

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Yeah, it sure looks like one of those lines.

I haven't noticed the hum bar moving. It seems that it is always just below a white line.
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Old 01-16-2018, 05:52 PM
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I injected the video directly into the Video Amp tube and I still get those same white lines.
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Old 01-16-2018, 11:10 PM
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I'm starting on the cabinet now. I remember reading somewhere what it takes to remove the channel plate that is usually warped. Can anybody point me to where I read that? I don't want to break that Channel number plate!
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Old 01-16-2018, 11:53 PM
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I got the channel plate off with no problems.
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Old 01-17-2018, 04:31 PM
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I got the channel plate off with no problems.
You're daring! I never had the nerve to pry one off. I adjusted my tuner by simply taking the chassis out.
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Old 01-17-2018, 04:37 PM
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You're daring! I never had the nerve to pry one off. I adjusted my tuner by simply taking the chassis out.
What I did was to use a 3/16 dowel and a small hammer to "drift" it out from the inside. Tapping lightly on each "pin" and move it a little at a time. No prying. 2 of the brass retainers stayed in the cabinet. I used my flush cutter to get them out from the front side.
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Old 01-20-2018, 08:25 AM
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I've cleaned and polished the cabinet. Then I refilled the lettering on the front of the cabinet like Bob did on his video. I used some satin acrylic paint from Walmart and it turned out pretty good. Then I got to thinking that he used white on his black cabinet and I also used white on my brown cabinet. Looking at it now, I'm thinking I should have used perhaps a light tan or Khaki color. I scrapped the lines on the Channel Plate and they stayed a Khaki color. What color did Admiral use on their brown cabinets?

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Old 01-20-2018, 02:56 PM
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I looked closely at my original brown example and it looks like the lettering is a cream color rather than stark white. I would say redoing all the lettering in stark white would be acceptable though.
It seems the white dots on the channel plate must've been molding injection marks that were just filled along with the lettering at the factory.
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Old 01-20-2018, 03:22 PM
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It will probably fade/dirty to a cream eventually anyway.
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Old 01-20-2018, 04:03 PM
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Ivory/Cream for sure on mine... original, un-restored:



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Old 01-20-2018, 06:20 PM
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My set. It basically looks white in the photo, but in person it's more a cream color. Notice how swirled the knobs are on this example!
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