Hi Down under!
I am a german collector who is hooked on aussi TVs.
Number #7 (early rare STC) is soon on the way.
Shipping is very expensive and a question of the distance.
Maybe that`s the reason why I am the only one in Europe who
owns australian TVs.
O.K., its the other side from our earth!
WHAT A LUCK that Australia, a partner of the Commonwealth, decided to
introduce the european CCIR standard. In this case I have no problems with them!
The 21" Kriesler console, 100km down from Sidney picked up by the shipper,
crated in a perfect wooden box was a 1600,- Euro gift to me.
(The smiley says everything!)
This price is incl. customs work, x-ray control etc. because of 9/11.
I have 2 portholes, the 12" Raytheon and a 12" Zenith.
The Raytheon had a factory installed wrong winding on the power transformer.
My transformer man has controlled it and was amused that this transformer lived longer then a week as it was new (totally burned).
The set was a self import from my last US-travel.
As an Aussi you are on the right side when you decide to rewind the
power transformers to 230 Volt.
I can give you for that the new winding numbers!
I have a 50s article (Funkschau) of a german TV repairman who revised in the 50s hundreds of US TV sets from members of the US army in Germany.
When the americans went back, he turned them back into the US standard.
You have more fun with the TVs when you allign them to CCIR because of
the bandwidth.
I don`t think that you are able to produce 60 Hz to run with the US vertical frequencies.
Do you have a NTSC converter from an old US-vcr?
Are you on the way to do this work completly?
These older HV transformers can be rewinded, missing knobs are bigger problems.
American schematics are really good, there is no way to do them better.
I heard that 12" tubes are often down with there emission/gassy and not so easy
to find than 10" tubes.
Please correct me if I am wrong.
Happy week-end,
TV-Collector
