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Originally Posted by Phil Nelson
What's the model number of your Andrea?
Phil Nelson
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It's a TVL-16.
This has a metal cone tube which I'm led to believe is not a high probability shot to be good. To make things worse, I found it with a CRT brightener on it.
When I check the tube, it checks strong after a few minutes, so I'm hoping that as the high voltage dropped because of the failing 10KV caps I found, some ham 'n egger threw a brightener on it - hopefully not being run that long or at all with it. Maybe they tried the brightener then abandoned it.
In any case, I won't spend a lot of time on it. I already restuffed a 40-40 @ 500-500 and changed the dead 5U4 and one 1B3. I'll add the HV caps and see if she'll run. If the tube is strong and the flyback good, I'll go ahead and do a full restore and alignment. These were supposed to be very good performers. It certainly is well built.
I've had it about 25 years along with a bunch of other stuff I had to take as a package deal to get what I wanted (some Fisher tube HiFi stuff).
For some insane reason, I decided a nice 50s B&W TV would look nice in our front room where my wife and I have a 1929 RCA Radiola console and an 1857 reed organ along with a turn of the century Waterbury gingerbread clock from her family.
TMI? LOL.
John