1966 GE PortaColor Restoration

[Dubis7]

Well, I'm not even gonna make another thread about this one. It took me all of 20 minutes to resolve.

This is a set that was previously restored by Phil Nelson of Phil's Old Radios. I bought his RCA 8-PT, and one of his to-be-restored sets a few years back and finally got a chance to fiddle with it. The Horizontal was struggling to sync, the antenna was damaged, and I wanted to swap the restored chassis into a new cabinet so I could get the legs on it. The paper collar around the ion magnet also needed to be replaced.

That's all done now. I had the antenna cabinet worked on when I picked it up, and getting the broadcaster running inspired me to check out the hoizontal sync. It actually fixed itself once I got the antenna connected. I'm not going to call it "rock solid" in any sense of the word, but I attribute that more to RCA trying to design a cheap set than to any outstanding electrical issues. I may tear into it later and tinker with the yoke a bit. It looks angled, even in the new cabinet, but that's something Phil noted in his original restoration so that could be an outstanding issue.

Perhaps some day I'll tackle the other chassis and reunite it with its original cabinet, but that'll be a future project when I have more experience.