GE 810 restoration

[Radiotronman]

Well the picture tube didn't test well and cooking it for 45 minutes didn't help much. Hopefully it will be viewable. Good news is that it looks like the flyback has been replaced. I've heard the originals are highly failure prone.

[Radiotronman]

Flyback replacement is s GE 77J1

[Kevin Kuehn]

What makes you think it's been replaced? I'm pretty sure GE 77J1 is the OEM number.

[ZackN920]

Originally Posted by Radiotronman

Well the picture tube didn't test well and cooking it for 45 minutes didn't help much. Hopefully it will be viewable. Good news is that it looks like the flyback has been replaced. I've heard the originals are highly failure prone.

That sucks. That got a 10BP4?

I wonder if that set is related to my 806, electronically? Same era set. I wonder if it uses the same flyback as mine....I think mine's original, but after warming up, mine really likes to sizzle I'll probably have to replace it, but that set won't ever really be a watcher for me so....

[Radiotronman]

I brought it up slowly on a variac and the speaker buzzed really loud. I did get a dim raster and and a few thousand volts on the second anode. I've got a b-k CRT tester, which I've tested crts on them before that tested bad, but we're viewable.

[Phil Nelson]

Loud hum from the speaker is a classic sign of bad electrolytic filter capacitors in the power supply. I wouldn't run it for any length of time without replacing those.

Phil Nelson
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[GaryK]

Originally Posted by Radiotronman

Well the picture tube didn't test well and cooking it for 45 minutes didn't help much. Hopefully it will be viewable. Good news is that it looks like the flyback has been replaced. I've heard the originals are highly failure prone.

There is an eBay seller posting in Vintage Television to sell his GE console for $50. It has a fried power transformer. Maybe it has useable parts.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Tele...8AAOSwu-BWO3u7

[bandersen]

Originally Posted by GaryK

There is an eBay seller posting in Vintage Television to sell his GE console for $50. It has a fried power transformer. Maybe it has useable parts.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Tele...8AAOSwu-BWO3u7

That's an early 1947 GE 801 and I think uses a different flyback. Also a very collectable TV in it's own right and I hope someone can restore it.