Spotted an old Philco at S.A. this morning

[bgadow]

There are a lot of ideas for repurposing an old set but the vast majority (almost every one that I've seen) came out looking a lot worse than just leaving well enough alone. A color set can be retrofitted but few have the skill/patience to do it seamlessly.

That shouldn't be too complicated a chassis. This would be a good one to tinker/learn on.

[HatchetJack]

Well, her she is, all 15 bucks of her.



I'm not into butchering antique american iron or electronics and would
love to see it preserved in its original glory. Even if I could rebuild all the
innards which I cant, I dont have any tv reception being located between
Atlanta and Birmingham in a low area. If I left it at the Salvation Army, some
antique dealer would have probably picked it up and it would most likely
be parked in some store with crystal mugs on top with a 400 dollar price
tag from now on with no worthwhile use. If It would be possible to retrofit
something usable into it, I might consider it but only if its not a desirable
unit. I am into classic stereo receivers/audio ect.. and would never consider
modding a Marantz, Sansui or the like from original. So is this set too
valuable to mod into something useful? I just have no idea, what should I do
with it?

[DaveWM]

Not that hard to work on, looks like it may have a hot chassis with those compactrons.

Just dont plug it in unless you have a 100watt light in series with it, jic there filter caps are shorted.

if it has a hot chassis then any tube filament can be open and no filaments will light.

Prob just needs the filter caps and maybe a tube or two (easy and cheap).


oh and IMHO its never worth butching up a TV set for a modern tv inside. It can be fixed, prob for cheap, and then used with a DVD and watch old B&W flicks on it.

[Eric H]

This might fix it.

One of the tubes has lost vacuum, this will cause the heater to burn out and being a series string set none of them will light.

Look at the tube I've drawn a red square around, the getter looks white, that means the tube has gone to air.

If you can tell us the number someone will probably have one they could send you.

[HatchetJack]

Thanks Eric, I will investigate a little closer tommorow " its at the office" the
pic actually makes the inside look better than it actually is. The wires seem brittleand there are some resistors/componets? that have white rust/corrosion on them not to mention all the dust and cobwebs. Excuse my ignorance, this is the first look for me on the inside of a tv. The large picture tube? in the center has the end glass nipple? broken off also I think. Should I consider even looking for a donor unit or well if I could locate one, its probably just as foul as this one. Looks like a fire hazzard to me at the moment, scared to plug it in after the guy told me it was smoking.

[jeyurkon]

Originally Posted by HatchetJack

Thanks Eric, I will investigate a little closer tommorow " its at the office" the
pic actually makes the inside look better than it actually is. The wires seem brittleand there are some resistors/componets? that have white rust/corrosion on them not to mention all the dust and cobwebs. Excuse my ignorance, this is the first look for me on the inside of a tv. The large picture tube? in the center has the end glass nipple? broken off also I think. Should I consider even looking for a donor unit or well if I could locate one, its probably just as foul as this one. Looks like a fire hazzard to me at the moment, scared to plug it in after the guy told me it was smoking.

If the glass nipple on the CRT was broken off you'd expect to see the phosphor on the screen blown away. If it is broken, perhaps it was only some excess glass on the nipple.

John