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Old 10-13-2009, 09:42 AM
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Exclamation Murphy A56V

Hi, I am new in this forum.
I need a schematic and an allignment instruction manual for this set.
The moderator of the british forum doesn`t allow me to register, because
he thinks, that my email provider is a spammer!
So I try to find here someone who owns a schematic or is registered
in this nobel club.

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Old 10-13-2009, 03:32 PM
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Hi, I am new in this forum.
I need a schematic and an allignment instruction manual for this set.
Ask Michael Bennett-Levy, he is an owner of the Murphy A56V, and he sure has the schematics.

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Old 10-14-2009, 12:04 AM
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Thanks Yagosaga,
correction: he was!
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Old 10-14-2009, 04:32 AM
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Steve McVoy of the Early Television Foundation has restored a Murphy A58V for the museum. This model has a TV chassis built around the A56V, and a AM/SW radio. So, he might be able to provide more informations.

http://www.earlytelevision.org/murphy_a58v.html

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Old 10-14-2009, 10:56 AM
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Odd looking set. What is it with Murphy and peculiar designs? They made a small console radio with one of the strangest designs I've ever seen.

http://www.vintage-radio.net/forum/s...d.php?p=171391

Just my $0.02.

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Old 10-15-2009, 05:49 AM
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Murphy sets are going the german Braun way, but Murphy is of course older.
The style elements are similar.
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Old 10-15-2009, 09:05 AM
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Hi TV-collector,

did you won the Murphy tv set of the Michael Bennett-Levy Early Technology Sale?

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Old 10-19-2009, 12:14 AM
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Seems so......
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Old 10-19-2009, 12:52 AM
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The A56V sold in the MBL sale does not have the original chassis. It has a late 40s Murphy chassis, so the A56V schematic and alignment instructions will be of no use.

You need to find out what set the chassis came from, which will require the expertise of the people on the British discussion group. I suggest you try again to join their group.
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Old 10-19-2009, 01:12 AM
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If the forum disallows you because of your email provider, why don't you create a free Gmail (or whatever) account just for that forum.

I needed to do that so that I could reply to craigslist ads. Their server bounced back every email that I sent, with the message, "due to excessive SPAM." I have never sent SPAM in my life, of course. They just had my SMTP server on their blacklist for some reason.

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Old 10-19-2009, 02:38 AM
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The expert on all things Murphy is Mike Barker, who is also chairman of the British Vintage Wireless Society. Contact details here: http://www.bvws.org.uk/info/committee.htm He will definitely have all relevant documents and extensive knowledge about how the design evolved.

The UK forum is definitely a good place to discuss sets like this. Your ISP has probably found its way on to a Spamhaus or similar blacklist.
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Old 10-19-2009, 03:14 AM
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I raised this question in the UK forum and Paul Stenning, the forum owner, replied:

"There are several email domains that are blocked from registering due to being used extensively by forum spammers (they are mostly Russian ones, plus a few other country specific free ones). Googlemail, gmail, hotmail, live, yahoo etc are all fine though so signing up for one of those will solve the problem."
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The A56V sold in the MBL sale does not have the original chassis.
That's the reason, why I asked whether he did won the Murphy tv set of the Michael Bennett-Levy Early Technology Sale.

The original schematics are of no value in this case.

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Old 10-19-2009, 09:22 AM
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Sh.............t!
Sorry, I am maybe wrong with that model number,
I didn`t bought the Murphy mirror-in-lid from 1936 which was offered with a post-war chassis from Murphy.
I bought the 1938 Console without radio.
The set is pictured in the second book with its swing-out type chassis.
This one has to have a A 58 model number like the console with radio, which was
sold, too.
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Old 10-19-2009, 09:33 AM
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I may have technical data, since we have that set at the museum. I will check and if I do, where can I email it?
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