Got some weird kit tv????

[Carmine]

I would recommend removing all this talk and photos () of children performing dangerous tasks. I'm not saying that I will alert the authorities, but someone just lurking and reading threads might.

Children should be shielded from such danger. At a minimum the child in the photos should be wearing a helmet, safety glasses, knee pads, shin guards, etc. I once had a drip of solder splash on a bare shin, and it hurt very badly. Better that children should watch instructional internet videos and not allowed to to use actual tools until well into their college years. Encouraging an interest in eco-unfriendly hobbies should be discouraged. It's horrifying to see such a young person turning wrenches (yeach!) on a non-hybrid, fossil fuel car. Hopefully there will be therapy.

Instead I would steer a child towards an interest in more useful careers, such as a deep knowledge of dinosaurs or methods of urban-farming hemp to produce sustainable cloth for processing in economically depressed regions.

As you can see, these children wear helmets. I highly doubt their eco-activities include using lead-based solder, or changing struts on a privately-owned fossil-fuel car.

[Findm-Keepm]

The pincushion transformer pictured has a Warwick Electronics part number. With the "80-" prefix, it identifies it as a transformer. It would be interesting to see the part number on the Vertical output transformer and the audio output transformer - the transformer complement would lead to a Sears/Warwick chassis schematic (528.XXXXX chassis). Thordarson has a neat matrix that shows transformer part numbers vs. chassis. Could be useful.

It's not a ATR, Conar, or Heathkit, so maybe NTS, Devry?? Even Andrea, with their chassis that could be slipped into a custom cabinet, didn't use Warwick parts.

One thing is for sure - that is one puzzling TV chassis.


Cheers,

[rca2000]

Originally Posted by Carmine

I would recommend removing all this talk and photos () of children performing dangerous tasks. I'm not saying that I will alert the authorities, but someone just lurking and reading threads might.

Children should be shielded from such danger. At a minimum the child in the photos should be wearing a helmet, safety glasses, knee pads, shin guards, etc. I once had a drip of solder splash on a bare shin, and it hurt very badly. Better that children should watch instructional internet videos and not allowed to to use actual tools until well into their college years. Encouraging an interest in eco-unfriendly hobbies should be discouraged. It's horrifying to see such a young person turning wrenches (yeach!) on a non-hybrid, fossil fuel car. Hopefully there will be therapy.

Instead I would steer a child towards an interest in more useful careers, such as a deep knowledge of dinosaurs or methods of urban-farming hemp to produce sustainable cloth for processing in economically depressed regions.

As you can see, these children wear helmets. I highly doubt their eco-activities include using lead-based solder, or changing struts on a privately-owned fossil-fuel car.

I SINCERELY hope--and PRAY--you were being "funny" in your post. Because..that is EXACTLY the attitude some people had towards me when I was about 13 or so." .Put it on the shelf...pick it up later on..You are too young to do this stuff. You don't know ANYTHING !! " And so on. And FORCING me to get rid of nearly ALL of the few things I had collected up to that point--including an Admiral M20--a set I have NEVER been able to find since , so was an Arvin 21-553 set--another set very difficult to fond today. !!

Such "support"--from people I THOUGHT cared about me...made it a LOT more difficult for me to enhance my knowledge. Had things been different--and a few of the people who COULD have helped me--actually DID so...who KNOWS how things might have gone for me !! I likely would have had a few things on the market by now and a few books published.

I APPLAUD the one who is teaching his children how to work on this stuff !! It WILL help them and get them a lot more interested in technical things....

If...and it is a big IF..my health recovers and things change in a major way for me financially...I DO want to help young people who have a technical desire--to not "slip through the cracks" ...As I did so many times...due to so many short-sighted people...

[Kamakiri]

Originally Posted by Carmine

Instead I would steer a child towards an interest in more useful careers, such as a deep knowledge of dinosaurs or methods of urban-farming hemp to produce sustainable cloth for processing in economically depressed regions.

haw

That was great!

Reminds me of that commercial for that government website inventnow.org. The announcer says something like EXPLORE AND CREATE YOUR OWN INVENTION, and then in a hushed voice says "or you can just play some games"

Well played, you managed to steer in the Chris Griffins of the world too!

[NoPegs]

Originally Posted by Carmine

Instead I would steer a child towards an interest in more useful careers, such as a deep knowledge of dinosaurs

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...iGuZOA3ZLJ8Sry

[Carmine]

Originally Posted by NoPegs

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...iGuZOA3ZLJ8Sry

I can't (don't) watch any videos on my low-tech/speed interwebs service. But I did click, and I see the idea is that toy companies get the "facts" surrounding dinosaurs incorrect.

At the risk of straying further off topic, which I admit I may have caused, I hope I didn't touch any raw nerves by making fun of the American (perhaps worldwide?) obsession with dinosaurs. It simply irritates me because "dino-knowledge"; while utterly useless for 98% of the public, has become a go-to, safe subject replacing mechanical interests for children so predisposed.

As a child, I grew up with immigrant, depression-era adults who were intelligent, but had no clue what was popular for children in the mid 80s. That seems to be about the era when this push for the natural-world vs. man-made world began. Rather than using primitive spell-checks or speak & spells, I was forced to look up any word I misspelled in this old-timey thing called a "dictionary". Said dictionary was embossed with my grandmother's name as 1938 Detroit Spelling Bee champion, so you might imagine that poor spelling and grammar were not tolerated. I learned multiplication tables from flash cards. The only worthwhile public education I received came from my oldest teachers, the rest came at home.

Non-academic subjects were the domain of my grandfather. We didn't study dinosaurs. We fixed cars, lawn mowers, bikes, television sets & radios. We poured cement, finished basements, installed toilets, added electrical outlets, etc. I knew how to use a magnesium float before my friends could ride a bike. I learned all of this during the time my friends raised by hippie parents were watching MTV, listening to rock & roll, learning about dinosaurs and overall becoming good consumers of crap imported by the cargo-ship load.

As such, I find myself rather out-of-step with people of my generation. My sarcasm isn't always understood. When I see a kid who can do something useful at a young age, I tend to be shocked... but in a good way. It gives me a shot of hope for the future.