Saved an '88 RCA color from the curb

[AVeturri]

Good to know...thanks.

Watched some over the air NTSC on it tonight, on my low power station channel 10..courtesy of one of those agile modulators.
"Videodrome" from 1983 seemed fitting .
Despite the rain, the pic and sound quality was near-perfect at over 200 feet distance in the toolshed. Using a 300ohm dipole to receive.
It would have been flooded out if i didn't save it!!

[zenith2134]

It is a workhorse of a chassis. I use mine constantly. The tube is better than a new set. After this era, the sets were pretty much cheap junk IMO....At least this one has a metal frame around the chassis.

[zenith2134]

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[Electronic M]

Originally Posted by AVeturri

It would have been flooded out if i didn't save it!!

a little rain never hurt anything.... You can completely submerge a set in water, let it dry for a week without applying power, then once dry power it up again and all will be fine. I've gotten sets working that were left outside for years.

The only thing that may make a set beyond repair is if it sits submerged in acidic/alkaline corrosive liquid....Like say a set that was in a basement that had a sewer/drainage back up flood for a day or more...That may dissolve traces and corrode/short/open irreplaceable transformers etc.

[zenith2134]

Yes I have used rain soaked sets no problem. Ones that have taken sea water are a different story...I suppose even those can be salvaged if you do a freshwater rinse right away.