Heathkit Roundie

[edison64]

Just a little anecdote about Heathkit Roundy's about 15 years ago I had a guy stop saying he had a color Roundy that his dad built and he wanted to get it going again come to find out he thought his dad was the ultimate when it came to soldering but apparently he wasn't.... after removing the chassis I swear it looked like somebody had dipped the entire thing into a vat of lead and shook it off I don't even know how it was functioning lots of things shorted together and hooked were they weren't supposed to be... the connections for the high-voltage cage we're literally millimeters from shorting out to the chassis I still don't to this they understand how it didn't spark or short. After much repairs I finally got the set going again he was very happy but I wasn't it was certainly nothing that I would really want to watch could never get the focus extremely right and the color guns another story as others have stated I could never get them balance quite right either but still he was happy because it was his dad's.