restoring old tv's

[bgadow]

This gets done a lot with Heathkits. People will strip them down and, using the original instructions/new parts, build them from scratch again.

Now, I have had daydreams of building a decent radio from scratch, but that would be the limit for me, I think. To do a tube color TV....I'm not sure if the reliablity gain would be enough to justify it. Components will still go bad, and you may even find that some of the replacements are no better than what you replaced. (just speculation there.)