What a beast

[Jon A.]

Originally Posted by Electronic M

If it's a model that was only sold in Canada or if they changed the numbers across the border then getting good service info from Sam's is going to be difficult if it is even possible....

It is a pretty neat set though. That's a rare enough bird that I'd have a hard time parting it out unless the cabinet had rotted to mush.

The cabinet is pretty good, some of the veneer is peeling though, around the base especially. That lower control panel door is probably unobtanium, might have to fabricate one. I just checked... damn, that was a Canadian newspaper I got the ad from.

Originally Posted by zeno

None of the model ##'s are in Sams. See if you can
find a chassis #, something like A4LXU, NP3SX etc.
I can claw through a few yrs of Sams & see if I can
find a similar set tomorrow. IIRC the seperate green wires
were grounds & prob will work without it.
Looks like the only place you will be going tomorrow is
snow shoveling..........
My oldest is a meteorologist & said you may never see a
bigger winter storm. We missed this one phew.......

73 Zeno

That storm, mother nature's boot between the legs. We didn't lose power though... fingers crossed. I'm not even scheduled to work tomorrow. I can make today's hours up with more hooks made out of the metal from broken pant hangers. My pic along with my "invention" is going to the big cheese in Toronto. Those hooks normally cost a buck apiece, and I found a way to duplicate them for nothing. Mine have metal clips too, so they hold up better. They're a non-profit and always looking for ways to save money. Anyway, actually we did have a bigger storm in aught 4, dubbed "White Juan" after the hurricane that hammered us the previous fall. Got three feet that time, city was pretty much shut down for four days, a state of emergency was declared and a curfew put in place, everyone off the street by a certain time for snow clearing.

I'll have to hunt further for any chassis numbers, I was already back inside it earlier. There's another disconnected wire that's bundled to another that is hooked up, and I see only one other hookup pin in the area. I don't want to make any assumptions though.

Originally Posted by Jeffhs

Your TV is very unusual, to me anyway. I never knew Hitachi made console color sets until seeing the pictures of yours; I hope you get it working. If you bring it up very slowly on a Variac you should be OK; just be sure to watch for signs of overloading such as smoke and/or sparks. Your set may need new filter capacitors as well, but if you just want to find out if the TV works at all, the slow power up with the Variac is the way to go.

Since Canada still has some analog TV stations still operating after switching to digital a couple years ago (so I've read here), you should be able to watch a few stations before having to use a cable box for everything, as many cable operators have required us in the US to do. (VK member Radiotvnut in Mississippi comes to mind, as the cable company in his area has done just that; a lot of cable operators are following suit to free up bandwidth for other services, such as broadband Internet, telephone, etc.)

As to the weather, it looks like your storm is the Canadian version of the bucket brigade of snow storms and cold weather events we just had to deal with (and deal with and deal with . . .) until just recently in the northeastern-midwestern US, making this the longest winter I can remember in 57 years of living in this area near Cleveland, except for the blizzard of 1978 which was much worse. I've been seeing the pictures and video of the so-called "Nor'easter Bomb" on NBC Nightly News the last couple of nights, and it certainly looks as if you guys up north are getting hit hard by it! While I don't think this storm is or will be your "armageddon" (the TV news here in the US often exaggerates these things to death in the name of high drama), but you will have to be very careful on the roads if you must be out in that mess. Best to stay in if you can, and get that Hitachi TV working--or at least find out if the set powers up without incident. That the CRT is probably good is a good sign.

Good luck. That set deserves to be saved.

First I need a variac. I'm pleased about the response so far for an early solid-state set that isn't a Zenith. I have seen many Hitachi color console sets, even passing up a cheap '84, but I hadn't seen or heard of anything this far back.

I still have analog cable service, it came with my cable internet. The channel indicator is so grungy that I had to shine a flashlight through the window to see what channel it is on. It has a very weird UHF tuner, no detents and it doesn't travel full circle so it's not a continuous tuner either.

I don't consider the storm our armageddon, I'm just poking fun at how most people here overreact to bad weather forecasts.