Hi you all, i'm from Italy and i'm new on this forum,
I enjoy collecting and restoring old electronics, from stereos to tv sets, and i'm doing so since the age of 10
I have fished this nice italian-made Phonola TV set out of a dumpster last sunday, it was made in July 1964
This set uses one of the very first CRTs with the rimband type integral implosion protection, so there's no bonded shield to develop cataracts, the screen is the actual face of the CRT
It's basically working, with excellent reception on both VHF and UHF and great sound (two large oval alnicos) but it takes several minutes for it to come up with a really poor picture with almost no contrast, and both contrast and brightness controls are malfunctioning
The picture gets much brighter when the horizontal sync is lost, so i guess the CRT is still good, i think it will need to replace all paper and electrolytics capacitors...
Francesco
