Thanks for the tips. I'll start with the least aggressive solvent and work my way up.
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Originally Posted by AndrewM
Nice little Motorola, shame we don't have early sets like these where I live.
I find turpentine useful for softening the adhesive on masking tape so that it can be removed. It doesn't harm most finishes but it would be wise to check first.
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Funny thing is, the seller picked up the set in Ohio near as he could remember. I got it from him in the far western suburbs of Chicago. Now it's back to my place about two miles from from the old Motorola plant where it was made
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Originally Posted by Sandy G
Seems like SOMEBODY was making "replacement" masks for these-I THINK I've seen 'em on The E Place.. Every one of these I've seen has had that problem...
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Yes, renovatedrdios.com has them. He was lucky enough to find a mask in good enough condition to make a mold. He actually has reproduction VT71 knobs as well
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Originally Posted by Zenith26kc20
My Motorola book has the 7F8 schematic but the 6KV caps are large tubulars under the chassis but not in the usual place. Those don't appear to be oil caps. That's the first time I noticed no fine tuning. That must have driven the owner a bit nuts as drift occured during warmup. My Sears B/W has a number of 7F8's also. LOVE the CRT connectors!
Can't wait to hear of the progress on this one!
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Here's a link to the Early Television Foundation's scan of this set in Rider's vol 1.
Which Sears set do you have ? I picked up a Silvertone 8132 a while back and it's like nothing I've ever seen before inside - bunch of octals, dual push button tuner...
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Originally Posted by Eric H
Wow, I just noticed the 6kv caps mounted above the chassis!
Never seen that before either.
I have a channel one VT-71 with no fine tuning and I don't think it has those either, I'll have to take a look.
That has to be a very early one.
I wonder if they moved those caps because they found out having 6KV above the chassis was a bad idea?  |
Careful when you reach in to change out a tube!