Philco roundie

[julianburke]

Not to say these yokes don't go bad, I never had any trouble out of them. If it is bad, you will have a trapazoidal picture. This yoke is the same of an RCA and other sets as many of the early 60's shared this yoke. A CTC7 through 12 RCA yoke will work nicely in this set.

[radiotvnut]

Originally Posted by julianburke

Not to say these yokes don't go bad, I never had any trouble out of them. If it is bad, you will have a trapazoidal picture. This yoke is the same of an RCA and other sets as many of the early 60's shared this yoke. A CTC7 through 12 RCA yoke will work nicely in this set.

Who knows, I may get a surprise when I fire up this set and find that the yoke is good. Up to now, I was simply going by the note on the back; but, I also know from experience not to trust what every TV shop says is wrong. Over the years, I've gotten sets from TV shops where they claimed some major part was defective, only to find something simple wrong.

[miniman82]

Originally Posted by radiotvnut

Over the years, I've gotten sets from TV shops where they claimed some major part was defective, only to find something simple wrong.

My Dad bought our first 'big screen' back in 1989, it was a 25" GE BPC set. Was a strong performer for like 12 straight years, then started turning itself on/off randomly like a ghost was hitting the power button. Local Zenith repair shop took it for a month trying to figure out what went wrong (admittedly intermittent faults are the toughest), replaceing things in the power supply, a 'weak' horizontal transistor, ect. After a month they called back saying it was fixed, and pop was happy to pay them to get it back without asking what finally fixed it. Me, being the curious young geek in the family, asked the service man what finally did it. He said (probably not expecting me to know what he was talking about) "the infrared receiving unit went bad, it was receiving signals that had never been sent!"

Total repair bill for a GE BPC set? $325.
Finding out your kid knows how much an IR module costs (about $10)? PRICELESS!

[radiotvnut]

Originally Posted by miniman82

My Dad bought our first 'big screen' back in 1989, it was a 25" GE BPC set. Was a strong performer for like 12 straight years, then started turning itself on/off randomly like a ghost was hitting the power button. Local Zenith repair shop took it for a month trying to figure out what went wrong (admittedly intermittent faults are the toughest), replaceing things in the power supply, a 'weak' horizontal transistor, ect. After a month they called back saying it was fixed, and pop was happy to pay them to get it back without asking what finally fixed it. Me, being the curious young geek in the family, asked the service man what finally did it. He said (probably not expecting me to know what he was talking about) "the infrared receiving unit went bad, it was receiving signals that had never been sent!"

Total repair bill for a GE BPC set? $325.
Finding out your kid knows how much an IR module costs (about $10)? PRICELESS!

That was a common problem on late '80's RCA/GE sets. It's usually loose connections or bad electrolytic caps inside the MTT tuner/tuner control module. Someone recently gave me an '88 GE that was doing random crap like that. I resoldered all the plug-in connectors and wirewrap stakes inside the MTT module and that took care of it.