1967 Motorola Back to the living
 

Just got my Grandparents 1967 Motorola 21" set back to running. Still some touch up but Not bad for 45 yrs old.

Pictures or it didn't happen.

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j/k, we want to see the fruits of your labor!

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didnt see youre post up there sorry.

Cool! I have a very similiar model, just a slight trim change I think. In a land of RCA's and Zeniths, these are a refreshing change.

Looks good, Those are cool Motos. I wish my grandparents would have kept their old sets but it was too late by the time I had interest. They were thrown out....

Motorola super-cool
 

I totally agree! These were so cool to see instead. I had a TS-914 with the 23EGP22, lost now. Watching Star Trek on a Motorola was the final frontier.:D

That Moto reminds me of a black-and-white portable TV my dad's second wife's folks had in West Virginia in the 1970s. The control panel on the b&w Moto was identical to that of the color Moto being discussed here -- minus the color controls, of course. I'm not sure if the b&w portable was a Motorola or not. Were there other brands of TVs that used the same control panels as Motos? :scratch2: I remember seeing this control panel on at least one model of Admiral b&w sets here on VK as well; also, the 23" color portable TV in Oscar Madison's apartment in "The Odd Couple" ABC television series of the '70s had the same control panel. Would that set have been an Admiral as well?

I do believe the Odd Couple set was an Admiral but I'm not 100% sure

Congrats!

This looks the same as my first color set - 1966 Motorola vinyl-over-metal cabinet, hybrid chassis - replaced the horizontal section tubes once a year to bring the picture brightness back. The CRT, I believe, is one of the first with an internal magnetic shield, allowing the cabinet to be smaller.

Am I remembering right - convergence under the lower right front cover?

Right behind the speaker. One release screw in the control door and there it is. I can remember seeing Martin Luther King's funeral on this set. Lots of memories.

Great Motorola!
the Odd Couple tv from the program was indeed an Admiral color.

Thats a prize, i would say kinda rare these days. And motorolas are fairly hard to work on. They did everything a little different and parts are not as easy to get. Good job!

They sure did. Case in point was the gated-beam high level demodulator tube (6LE8?) that drove the CRT grids directly, eliminating the three driver stages. It sure put out knock-your-socks-off reds and oranges, seemingly at exaggerated levels. The CRT was rare earth, IIRC.

Motorola's were very hard to work on.

This one was idle for 30 yrs. All filter caps checked perfect that really surprised me. Still have to touch up the tuner. I've worked on many brands through the years. Started when I was about 13 on Tv's, earlier on radios. Still love the old stuff. Just more fun to work on.

that's it in a nutshell :thmbsp:

Our Motorola 23" had a neon light that came on to indicate a color show. The shop that replaced the first CRT (of 3, before Dad said, ENOUGH!) bunged up the killer circuitry, and the neon light burned steady from then on. Until then, it was fun to see the light go on and off with the color programs and/or commercials.

Ours punched a hole through the doughnut on the flyback and arc'd to the cage. Scared my mom really bad, as we had already had a color set (RCA) burn in the living room. I bought a replacement FBT for it, and kept it until the 3rd CRT died. I think I was watching it when I saw that Elvis had died.

Admiral and a few others also used that type of color circuit, or variations of it. If you compare GE's models, they used the porta-color type circuit in even their larger chassis.

Yes the Neon light is on this model too. I'm not sure you can see it in the picture but it's on. I know it never goes off because its in relation to the color killer circuit and color is now always on.