1950s TVS!, and tube radios!

[radiotron]

Originally Posted by josephdaniel

Here is a good idea next time you see a tv set or radio just skip over it and buy some test equipment like tube tester and capacitor checkers that should help you out a lot and show you wich caps really need replaced. if you really ate wanting to keep as many orgional parts in the tv as possible while keeping it working reasonably well this is the way to go for you I believe. Me I always replace the lyrics and papers in the old sets unless I don't have the part on hand.

i have a tube tester the cap thing is just my grandpa doesnt like giving out parts when the set works im not going against you guys its just that tvtimeisfun does the same thing he fired up a 65 zenith color that wasnt fired in over 40 years it only needed a horiz. output tube
ive never a a set go with bad caps when i used it ive had tubes go out when i was watching it, but never caps in the 2 years ive been doing this