Very early Motorola VT71 scored

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Originally Posted by Glenz75

Nice looking set Bob Underneath reminds me so much of the oddball TV that I'm currently working on, same solar caps and mica caps etc.. All very interesting...Cheers!

Thanks. Yeah, they are strange little sets for sure. It's been a while since I work on one and my first impression when I saw this chassis was that there just aren't enough tubes

Originally Posted by Zenith26kc20

My Sears with the 7F8's is a big (read: HEAVY!) set with a row of vertical pushbuttons for a tuner. I had help putting it on a shelf up high and now need help getting it down (soon). I started on it a bit ago and got side tracked by work.
I am curious.... That Motorola has .03 capacitors in the vertical. My Motorolas have .005 in them. My Motorola book shows the underneath couplings in the place that yours are but does not show the top ones. If the chassis mount ones are 6KV, they must be insulated better than just a cardboard sleeve (?). I had to use ceramic disc capacitors the first time to get the correct voltage rating. It amazes me how many of these little sets survived. When I first got into TV these were already considered "unfixable" due to horizontal frequency problems. The owner of the shop where I worked at the time laughed when I adopted one. He said "you'll never get it working"! It still works today!
Keep us well posted on this one!

Ah, that does look just like my Silvertone 8132. Yes, very heavy! Also very weird and cool design. I picked mine up a few months ago and haven't touched it yet. I'm really itching too, but am determined to stay focused and finish off some projects first.

The 0.03 caps are metal cans with the can as one side of the caps and a single lead coming out of one end. So, yeah, the whole can is at a high potential. The cardboard sleeve is about 1/16" thick.

The horizontal caps also have a metal jacket, but one HV lead comes out of each end and the can floats.