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Old 11-13-2012, 08:42 PM
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surprisingly,the thrifts here are full of these sets.10-20 dollars for players with digital tuners.the rotary tuners go for a few dollars more.as i ve said before,very good sets that held up well through the years
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Old 11-13-2012, 09:00 PM
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I think the fly is going on mine too.. I just noticed a pop noise every once and a while, and the screen twitches in a small area when it does it..

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Old 11-13-2012, 09:39 PM
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A friend of mine is a major hoarder, of just about everything. I was finally able to walk through his main building last week and he had one of these Sylvanias in there. At some point I'll have to ask him about it, if only for parts.
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Old 11-14-2012, 10:03 AM
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surprisingly,the thrifts here are full of these sets.10-20 dollars for players with digital tuners.the rotary tuners go for a few dollars more.as i ve said before,very good sets that held up well through the years
I thought it would be the other way around -- the digital sets would be priced higher than the rotary ones.
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Old 11-14-2012, 06:17 PM
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has to do with the thought by their experts that the rotary dials are somehow older.digitals are labeled cable ready.rotaries are labeled vintage.
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Old 11-27-2012, 01:46 AM
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It's fixed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mP12dVsXHKA
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Old 11-27-2012, 07:32 AM
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looks good,congrats!those were decent sets that had excellent crts.they made a fine picture.
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Old 11-27-2012, 01:00 PM
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Good Job R-T-P-N, it is very interesting that NAP did not mess with a good GTE design for at least a few years. I assume the Philco-branded sets of this era were identical.

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Old 11-27-2012, 04:21 PM
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They were. Several years ago, someone gave me an '81 Philco (GTE) that used the same chassis. It had about twenty million hours on it and the CRT was weak. I rejuvenated the CRT and watched it for about a year, until the CRT started getting weak again. I ended up giving that set to the junk man.

My Philco was in a different style cabinet; but, there were Philco's and Magnavox's that looked just like mine.
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Old 11-27-2012, 11:06 PM
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That set looks great! I really need to get to the 2 nice color sets I have, a 1976 Sony 19" and a 1979 Zenith System 3 space Command with Space phone.
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Well, this set stayed in my basement until recently, when my GE CTC136 chassis popped it's flyback and I pulled the Sylvania out to put in it's place. The Sylvania played for a few minutes and shut off. At which time, I put it to the side and pulled out a Zenith to use.

Here lately, I've been under pressure to get rid of some things and I pulled the Sylvania out to see if it was an easy fix. All I can tell you at this point is when you turn it on, the HV comes up and the set goes into shutdown. Clipping a meter to the 112V line so that I can see what the B+ is before shutdown tells me that the B+ is running way too high. The switching SCR test questionable (in circuit) and, at that point, I put it back together (I don't have the time or the bench space to really dig into it right now). Later, I may dive into it or it may end up going to the dump. On one hand, I hate to toss it; but, on the other hand, I can't keep everything.
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Old 04-19-2021, 09:40 AM
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I seem to remember a 15K in the regulator circuit around the B+ adj. pot that would open causing the B+ to be high.
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Old 04-20-2021, 10:59 PM
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My late Grandmother had a knob tuned Philco in this screen size. She bought it in Athens, Tennessee from Plaza Electronics in 1981-1983. Her set was reliable the first 18 months, then ate flyback transformers. Replaced a few. Weak and dim CRT is what finished it off after one rejuv. She then had a 17" Zenith and it lasted until 1987, lightning got it 3 times. She bought a 17" Sanyo in 1985, a Forrest City ex-Warwick plant set she bought at Wal-Mart for her bedroom. It lasted until just after she died around 25 or so years later. In the home my Mom and I share in Athens.
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Old 04-27-2021, 11:34 AM
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I have a 1974 vintage GTE/Sylvania 25" Console TV that I got from my next door neighbors and they were the original owners of it, its a knob tuned set, and a low hours set as well, because they mainly used it as a decor item because it was in their family room in their basement and they used it very sparingly.

It has a great picture and I use mine for retro gaming (Nintendo Entertainment System, Super Nintendo, etc.), or as our good friend Shango says: "Its Gamers Choice!"
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