RCA "TV Servicing" booklet from 1951
 

I have posted on my site a copy of TV Servicing, a 45-page booklet published by RCA in 1951:

http://antiqueradio.org/art/RCA_TV_Servicing_1951.pdf

This is not a comprehensive service guide, but a collection of articles, mostly written by John Meagher, author of RCA's Pict-O-Guide television books and one of my favorite technical writers from that era.

The intro says that these articles appeared in RCA Service News, a publication I haven't seen before. Is anyone else familiar with it? A quick search didn't turn anything up.

Enjoy!

Phil Nelson
Phil's Old Radios
http://antiqueradio.org/index.html

These were booklets sent to RCA service shops from the RCA Electron Tube Division.

I've attached a bunch of scans here, one of which has an article on John Meager you might find interesting. "Johnny Comes Marching Home Again, Hurrah, Hurrah!"

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A couple more covers...

And thanks for making that booklet available!

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Thanks, those scans are pretty interesting. So Meagher also created the "dynamic demonstrator," a working radio or TV with its parts spread out on a big board for demonstration purposes. I have seen photos of the radio board, but don't recall seeing the TV version.

http://www.radiomuseum.org/r/rca_dyn...ator_ii_s.html

This company in India still manufactures radio and TV demonstrators!

http://www.crown-electronics.com/dem...on-models.html

Phil Nelson

There were several radio versions, and probably several TVs as well.

Here is an early TV version:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...d/IMG_4314.jpg


They also made a VOM:

https://p2.liveauctioneers.com/610/2...680517_1_l.jpg


Not sure what the one here is: http://pucarch.purduecal.edu/?p=digi...content&id=622






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