Late '50's 17" Olympic

[marty59]

Kinda' reminds me of a metal version I had years ago. Had a power supply problem also with not enough width or height but would play otherwise. I was never able to do anything else with it.....

[leadlike]

I had a 21" in a really nice cabinet, it had been worked on before, and the previous restorer claimed to have replaced the flyback and yoke, in addition to recapping. Well, I found the filter caps wired in wrong, and the yoke and flyback were bad. I round a replacement yoke, but before finding a replacement fly, one of the ladyfinger modules went bad, killing the whole horizontal section. I replaced the module with individual components, but the set just never came around, and I needed a 21" crt for another set, so it was junked.

I still have the chassis, but it looks nothing like yours. Olympic liked to give two letter designations to their chassis (for example, mine is "HB"), so that helps tremendously with cross-referencing parts. These are very cheap sets, I don't think mine had DC resto, and since there don't seem to be many late 50s Olympics around, I gather they went up in smoke frequently.