ETV goodies ...

[cwmoser]

What goodies did you pick up at the Early Television Convention Auction?

I was not able to attend this year but last year I got some nice stuff.

Carl

[David Roper]

I didn't get any this weekend.

I also didn't bring back a single TV set.

But I did get good 7JP4, 10BP4 and lifetime supply of tubes for TV and AA5 IF strips all for $80.

[Electronic M]

I got a working GE Portacolor and a Zenith 25MC33 roundy with a good CRT and a HV problem.

Someone partially recaped the Zenith in the past, and it has good hum free sound. Every horizontal tube except the HV rect. and HV reg. was either weak(osc. tube), shorted(HOT and damper), or missing(focus rect). With new tubes it don't want to make more than 1KV of HV. It does not do any better with the horizontal plate drive signal from my B&K 1076 so I suspect the damper area is the problem. Wish I had a schematic for this set so I could troubleshoot the horizontal easier.

I also sold everything I brought...It surprisingly paid for everything I bought except for 3$ of LPs I'm over joyed that I effectively traded stuff I've lost interest in for stuff I want with a net reduction in physical volume of sets coming back home.

[Phil Nelson]

Didn't buy anything. TVs don't fit into an airline carry-on bag

After leaving, I wished that I had bid on one item in the silent auction -- a little Conrac/Fleetwood VHF TV tuner. That would have been small enough to smuggle home somehow, and I thought of a good use for it after the fact.

Oh, well -- always more fish in the sea!

Phil Nelson
Phil's Old Radios
http://antiqueradio.org/index.html

[rld-tv01]

I got a Saba german projection tv and a TelRent 10 inch rental tv missing the CRT and coin box for renting. Chuck A the seller of the Saba said he found a german schematic years ago but couldn't read german. He said he could make out the resister and capacitor values but couldn't remember if he changed them since it was so long and too many tvs ago.

Richard

[vts1134]

Originally Posted by rld-tv01

I got a Saba german projection tv and a TelRent 10 inch rental tv missing the CRT and coin box for renting. Chuck A the seller of the Saba said he found a german schematic years ago but couldn't read german. He said he could make out the resister and capacitor values but couldn't remember if he changed them since it was so long and too many tvs ago.

Richard

The Tele-Rent set is a cute one. My wife almost bid against you on that one.

[DaveWM]

nice score on the PC and Zenith. I love porta colors these days, they have a very high WAF.

[Phil Nelson]

That Saba is an interesting set. I would love to see it in operation. German schematics have a few different conventions but they are usually not too hard to puzzle out. For example, 1,1 means 1.1.

Phil Nelson

[Electronic M]

Originally Posted by DaveWM

nice score on the PC and Zenith. I love porta colors these days, they have a very high WAF.

Thanks. Though until I meet the right gal WAF need not apply.
I think I'll use it around the house once I get a decent set of agile modulators on the air.

[DaveWM]

yea having the built in rabbit ears makes it perfect the a BT modulator. funny how I see commercials touting being able to move a tv from room to room and have it still work, duh... that's the way they started out.

[snelson903]

Originally Posted by Electronic M

I got a working GE Portacolor and a Zenith 25MC33 roundy with a good CRT and a HV problem.

Someone partially recaped the Zenith in the past, and it has good hum free sound. Every horizontal tube except the HV rect. and HV reg. was either weak(osc. tube), shorted(HOT and damper), or missing(focus rect). With new tubes it don't want to make more than 1KV of HV. It does not do any better with the horizontal plate drive signal from my B&K 1076 so I suspect the damper area is the problem. Wish I had a schematic for this set so I could troubleshoot the horizontal easier.

I also sold everything I brought...It surprisingly paid for everything I bought except for 3$ of LPs I'm over joyed that I effectively traded stuff I've lost interest in for stuff I want with a net reduction in physical volume of sets coming back home.

i have the same zenith ,it still needs some work but its the same everything. the sams is packet 757- 4 i just got one for mine ,after i replaced the crt connector and hor. plate cap wire i see it needs a complete recap. job.

[Electronic M]

Almost the same. Mine has the decorative indents in the wood in different spots, and two faux door pulls on the board below the CRT mask.

I was able to get a shrunken raster and 11KV of HV after replacing several shorted and open caps in the horizontal section. Including at least one shorted orange drop(now I've seen everything)!

[mpatoray]

No TV's for me, but did get 2 radios a Sony ICF-2001 and a Westinghouse WR-272, which I will probably make into a "Tuesday afternoon" restoration.

I also picked up a portable video setup form the 70's, this was arranged a few months ago and just transported for me, included a Panasonic portable EIAJ recorder, 2 Vidicon cameras a "hip switcher" and a bunch of accessories in a big black case.

Also got a Jackson 648 tube tester.

[Boobtubeman]

I got a rock.......


SR

[snelson903]

Originally Posted by Boobtubeman

I got a rock.......


SR

thats too funny [ i got a rock ] i havent hurd that in yrs.