GE 810 restoration

[Kamakiri]

Originally Posted by Kevin Kuehn

Well since you asked. I think it's probably an instinctive desire, that some of us prefer to trouble shoot the circuitry, vs taking a shotgun approach to the finish line. I know for myself, I've often lost interest soon after the set becomes reliable in operational, and there goes any hope of completing the cosmetic aspect of a restoration. Dare I suggest that I've parted out sets that I repaired only a few years earlier. (nothing historically valuable of course) And I'm not implying any of the above in a derogatory way, I'm simply suggesting that we're not all wired to our hobby by the same intentions. Might I add that this is why so many find it sad that our nation is moving more and more away from a service economy. There just aren't too many creative employment opportunities left for those who enjoy troubleshooting electronic and mechanical devices.

To each their own, I guess. I usually end up working on 3 or 4 sets at a time, simultaneously recapping chassis and ordering odd bits for all of them at the same time.

If there's any cabinet work that needs to be done, I send the cabinets over to a friend of mine who does them up in exchange for radio repair.

Then, I end up with at least one out of the lot that has some funky issue, and those are the ones I post about here . Most of those get sorted out, but there are a couple (such as my 730TV2) that I've been wrestling with forever and intend to get back on once the restoration backlog is a little more clear. Yep, this place is most of the time like a production shop.

Once the sets are done, I end up watching the snot out of them. There are some that I end up selling to a few local guys that are really into vintage TVs but don't have the experience to restore them, and that pays for my parts and puts a little change in my pocket. Which is good, because once I bring something back to life, I want it to *live*. I think we all do