1950 arvin!

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Originally Posted by ggregg

Well young man, you know it all so don't expect too much help when you have a question. If you think that replacing tubes is all you need to do then you are in for a big surprise. If you think that turning the set on and off will reform every capacitor, then you know something I don't. Some capacitors will reform termporarily or sometimes for quite a while but the chances that they will stay that way are slim. Every television set you own has bad capacitors. It's just a question of how many, probably all of them. We haven't even gotten to resistor problems yet. You don't listen and we have better things to do than beat our heads against the wall. You are blowing a 5U4 in your other set and you don't know why!! "I turned it on and off a bunch of times so I know the filter capacitors are good". I just can't believe it. Maybe there is a forum with other teenagers that like old TV's. Then you guys can compare notes since we don't know anything. You can have a contest to see how many old sets you can blow up. The winner (actually the loser) gets to keep all the now junk sets. Don't pay much for your sets. They are not going to last very long.

no no no no you guys know more than i do tvtimeisfun is the one that taght me to do this im not saying their going to last forever it gets them going just enough to watch them for a while im not saying it reformes any it just keeps them from smoking from sitting so long, and in the sylvania tvtimeisfuns friend did that at etf