1963 Setchell Carlson color roundie

[wa2ise]

Originally Posted by DavGoodlin

RCA used to tout the "printed copper circuits" over old-fashioned hand-wiring.
We all know how that turned out!

Zenith used to make a big deal about their TVs being "hand crafted". Though the funny looking terminal strips and tube sockets allowed the "crafters" to quickly stuff part leads into the terminals, and then they were wave soldered.

[Kevin Kuehn]

Originally Posted by wa2ise

Zenith used to make a big deal about their TVs being "hand crafted". Though the funny looking terminal strips and tube sockets allowed the "crafters" to quickly stuff part leads into the terminals, and then they were wave soldered.

I always thought wave soldered meant that PC boards were soldered by lowering them into a vat of molten solder. I'm not sure how a point to point wired chassis could be wave soldered without damaging plastic components and wire insulation.

[Kevin Kuehn]

Here's the link to the U800 manual that I scanned and Steve put up on the ETF site. The missing page numbers represent blank back sides in the actual manual.

http://www.earlytelevision.org/pdf/S...800-manual.pdf