Motorola 9VT1

[cameronflyer]

I've been lucky with mine compucat. The only real trouble I had was figuring out a new ballast and alignment. The alignment still isn't perfect but i will get around to fixing that soon enough. BTW your 9VT1 is the reason I chose to restore mine. Until I saw it I didn't think one could look good at all.

[compucat]

Originally Posted by cameronflyer

I've been lucky with mine compucat. The only real trouble I had was figuring out a new ballast and alignment. The alignment still isn't perfect but i will get around to fixing that soon enough. BTW your 9VT1 is the reason I chose to restore mine. Until I saw it I didn't think one could look good at all.

Wow, thanks. The finish on your's turned out nice as well. I ended up painting my chassis, ordering some correct repro knobs for the volume and contrast controls. My metal Nichrome wire ballast eventually burned out, set turned off without warning in the middle of a program. i am using a glass Amperite ballast but will probably build one of the capacitor based ones for improved reliability. I could not salvage my original grille cloth nor find a matching replacement so I had to use what I had which is a piece of upholstery fabric but it works and looks unique. The only alignment adjustment I made on mine was to synchronize the sound and video for the fine tuning. Before that I could only optimize one or the other, not both. It has been a very reliable set and I love the round screen. In fact, I was watching Kojak on it about an hour ago.

[cameronflyer]

Thanks to Bob Anderson for a set of knobs. Got them installed this morning. Now I'm done with this one, on to the next.