To EHT, or not EHT?

[Phil Nelson]

Originally Posted by Down Under

The Philco manuals are good in that they match the part numbers listed on the board. Am I the only one who wonders why they used their own numbering system?

What was the alternative? As I understand it, Sams manuals were made after the fact, when the set was already in production (or sufficiently finalized to ship, anyhow). So Philco could have made up their own numbers or used none at all.

The Philco manual is definitely better than Sams. I got mine from some dude on eBay.

Phil Nelson

[DaveWM]

are you sure of the wiring of the yoke to the fly? check for resistance at least.

does the -44 go away with the yoke attached?

[Down Under]

Originally Posted by DaveWM

are you sure of the wiring of the yoke to the fly? check for resistance at least.

does the -44 go away with the yoke attached?

Hi all,

I'll have to try ebay for the Philco manuals, there was a guy selling them on CD, but he wouldn't ship to AU as he said he was unable to get to a post office

As the the -44, yep, it's still present with the yoke conected. The resistances seem OK, no dead shorts or anything horrible. Both yokes read the same, so I'm guessing they're OK. By memory the HOR winding was around 47ohms.

I should mention that there is still one original can electro in place, the largest one near the vertical OP tranny. I will be replacing it but I just don't have all the new caps yet. Not sure if that's important or not!

Cheers,

Adam

[Glenz75]

Welcome to the forum Adam This is a great place for all of us vintage TV enthusiasts (nutters ) and the people here are great and very helpful with their wealth of knowledge and information.
You obviously like those Predictas enough to have imported three of them! They are a neat looking set. There are also several sets that I'd love to import to NZ myself from the US as well including some colour roundies ...Maybe one day.
Good luck with your Predtica restoration projects....

Cheers
Glen

[Down Under]

Thanks a lot Glen,

yes, I'd call myself addicted! The Predictas have certainly created an impression at home, but I really want to restore them to their former working glory to fully appreciate them. If you're in NZ, you'll also understand the freight costs to get these beauties over. I've been lucky, all of my sets have arrived exactly as they were packed.

A colour roundie, I didn't know they even existed until I read various posts in this forum! By the time we had colour TV in AU, the tubes were well and truly rectangular. Even the early BW sets were mainly rectangular!

I was lucky enough to get an HMV rounded BW set, haven't looked at it yet, but it shouldn't be too hard hopefully as I have the squarer version alreay working.

Catchya,

Adam

[Glenz75]

Hi Adam, yeah me too addicted definitely...Last count about 20 plus old TV sets so that kind of says it! I don't know if you have had a look at my blog and that shows about half of what I've got..there is still a few more to add when I get time.

It must have cost you a small fortune to have all three of them shipped to Australia, and New Zealand it'd be pretty much the same, thats why I haven't even looked into getting anything from overseas...cost and the risk factor of it arriving damaged.

We were pretty much the same here in NZ with television, didn't officially get TV until around 1960 and colour came in 1974 so no hyrid or full valve colour sets at all and like in AU all our early sets were rectangular CRT's also. Some very early round CRT UK sets did make it here, but have never seen one and being 405 line they wouldn't have worked very well here being 625 line.

The earliest NZ made TV set I own is a 1959 Pye which has a 90 degree CRT and is very English looking in its layout etc. I'm only just got them (two) recently so and yet to look at those too.

Cheers!
Glen

Originally Posted by Down Under

Thanks a lot Glen,

yes, I'd call myself addicted! The Predictas have certainly created an impression at home, but I really want to restore them to their former working glory to fully appreciate them. If you're in NZ, you'll also understand the freight costs to get these beauties over. I've been lucky, all of my sets have arrived exactly as they were packed.

A colour roundie, I didn't know they even existed until I read various posts in this forum! By the time we had colour TV in AU, the tubes were well and truly rectangular. Even the early BW sets were mainly rectangular!

I was lucky enough to get an HMV rounded BW set, haven't looked at it yet, but it shouldn't be too hard hopefully as I have the squarer version alreay working.

Catchya,

Adam

[DaveWM]

yes HOT to me is Horz Output Tube, I refer to the horizontal output transformer simply as the "fly or flyback"

Too bad you do not have a TV analyst, I find them helpful for quick trouble shooting of HV. I doubt its a couplate if the grid signal is still good with the yoke attached.

[Down Under]

Hi Glen,

I'll check out your pages very soon, it's always very interesting to see the sets that people have. (And where they manage to put them all!) I have a total of 6 at the moment, but only the squarer HMV working for now) As I'm renting, I haven't got a proper workshop which is very frustrating.

The Predictas cost about A$700.00 to freight each, packed in a box inside another box, lined with foam. The sellers I've bought from have been excellent, the only annoyance happens when I see a TV I want on ebay but the seller won't ship. The Holiday I bought was listed 3 times before I came along and bought it, the seller mentioned on the 2nd and 3rd listings that the previous winning bidders were put off by the freight costs. I paid a fortune for this, and prices have dropped since. But I have it, it's in excellent condition, and I love it. Can't wait to restore it.

I also had a small GE 17 inch set brought over, and all 4 US TVs have arrived intact. Asking the seller to remove the CRT plug and pack it aside so it can't break the neck of the tube can help, but I've only had that happen once, and all of my tubes are OK. (Not sure about emissions on the Holiday tube yet!)

Catchya,

Adam

[kvflyer]

Originally Posted by Down Under

Hi all,

I'll have to try ebay for the Philco manuals, there was a guy selling them on CD, but he wouldn't ship to AU as he said he was unable to get to a post office
...

Cheers,

Adam

Hi Adam,

Let me know who this guy is on eBay and what the item number is. If you can't find another way, I can get the CD sent to me and then send it to you. Trust me, I know a little about posting and traveling to Australia!

Cheers Mate,
Don