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Colorful Bradford Screen Debut.

After a few days of checking things out on this Bradford/RCA clone made by Wells-Gardner, I've come to the conclusion that there's very little wrong with it. The tuner is a little bit touchy, as is the volume control, and there was a bad ground lug connection on one of the PCB's. Other than that, I did a purity and gray scale set up, and a minor static convergence touch up, and it looks to me like it's good to go.

This is the Bradford set sold by W.T.Grant that I wrote about in the "A BRADFORD BY ANY OTHER NAME" thread I started here last week. I figured it would be easier to view the screen shots if I started a new thread.

If I was feeling a whole lot more energetic, I might go through the entire convergence procedure, but for right now I think it looks pretty darned good.

Here are a few screen shots of various colorful subjects.......... Bob

http://i642.photobucket.com/albums/u...dBrimstone.jpg

http://i642.photobucket.com/albums/u...herandJohn.jpg

http://i642.photobucket.com/albums/u...TrollySong.jpg

http://i642.photobucket.com/albums/u...asiaLeaves.jpg

http://i642.photobucket.com/albums/u...d/Cossacks.jpg

Wow!! Looks great!! If it looks that good, I would probably leave it alone for now. Glad to see another one saved!

Some of the best roundie pic's i've seen. Nice set!

Convergence and purity look just fine to me ! Great roundie.
Love the vibrant colors these roundies throw. Must be the phosphors they used .

Glorious Lollipop Color ! I'd leave it alone-you run the risk of Screwin' it Up...(grin)

Oooooh......I LIKE IT

That first picture is spectacular! You lucky dog! :yes::yes:

What program is that on the first photo?

That looks real good! you ought to be proud to have that set.

I love being able to see the scanlines like that. I know it's awful tough to keep from tinkering with these to make them "just a little better", but I think I'd have to step back from that one and just enjoy!

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Originally Posted by hi_volt (Post 3024132)

Oooooh......I LIKE IT

What program is that on the first photo?

The first photo is taken from Walt Disney's 1940 film FANTASIA. It's from a segment called "A Night on Bald Mountain".

Just curious, what are the other screen shots from?

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Originally Posted by Bill R (Post 3024141)

Just curious, what are the other screen shots from?

The Judy Garland shots are from "Meet Me in St. Louis", and the rest are from the "Nutcracker Suite" section of Disney's "FANTASIA".

Those screen shot pictures look just amazing. :yes:

just wonderful... you guys in the US are so lucky!! droool

I'd be proud to own that! You did some good screen shots to capture some detail too...thanks for sharing.