Identifying Sears TV from 1976

[ESigma25]

I picked up this cosmetically challenged but promising Sears black and white TV from 1976 recently. It says it's "Made in Korea" so it's probably a Samsung but is there a way to make sense of the inscrutable model number format Sears loved to use for everything?

[Electronic M]

The 562 is the supplier ID number...There are online directories of suppliers by ID number.

[KentTeffeteller]

A note, that supplier isn't Korean. It is Asian. And well known. (Tokyo Shibaura).

[ESigma25]

Originally Posted by KentTeffeteller

A note, that supplier isn't Korean. It is Asian. And well known. (Tokyo Shibaura).

That's Toshiba, right? Certainly explains the Toshiba tuners and IC on the analog board. I guess they had shifted some TV production to Korea.

I'm so used to late 70s 13" black and white sets like this being made by Samsung.

[zeno]

Yup Toshiba. At the time they sold Toshiba, Sanyo & Warwick.
Toshiba was the best, a solid set.
Main problem with most was on early production sets. They had
double sided PCB's & the feed throughs would get intermittent. Caused
all kinds of symptoms. They fixed that later. Just slap it & watch on !

73 Zeno
LFOD !

[ESigma25]

Originally Posted by zeno

Yup Toshiba. At the time they sold Toshiba, Sanyo & Warwick.
Toshiba was the best, a solid set.
Main problem with most was on early production sets. They had
double sided PCB's & the feed throughs would get intermittent. Caused
all kinds of symptoms. They fixed that later. Just slap it & watch on !

73 Zeno
LFOD !

I haven't put a proper input into it yet but this set certainly seems to work fine, it originally didn't have any sound but after cleaning the volume pot the sound came back.