Does your interest in TVs rise and fall ?

[cwmoser]

Does your interest in TV restoration rise and fall?
Right now though I still have interest, I don't have the
energy and enthusiasm as I had 2 years ago. Got 2
TV's stacked up in the garage to work on and a third one
sitting on my workbench for several months. I guess
right now my time and energy is focused on some autos
I have --- perhaps something will spark me to wanting
to focus on TVs with enthusiasm. Do you guys jump from
one hobby to the other? Right now I'm turning wrenches
instead of holding a soldering iron :-)

Carl

[TV-collector]

It is only a question of time.
I am better with TV repairs than with car fixing.
Another problem is to clean the hands after working on a car.
I have a lot of wrenches, but however I can`t do everything starting
with the missing tools (Kent & Moore stuff ).
Garages in Germany are much smaller than in the US!
The result of all is, that my cars are today in the "mother-in-law"
position.

TV-Collector

[init4fun]

Hi Carl ,

Yes sir , interest in hobbies most certainly does come and go , Let me tell ya bout the roomful of $20K worth of RC plane equipment that mostly hasn't been touched in over 2 years ! (and yea , $20K does buy about 3 hobbyshop's worth of planes when done right ) . I figure either I'll get back around to em eventually or someday maybe my heirs will have one hell of a yard sale ( retired guy here , so could be sooner than later ) ... Anyway , thing is to do what you enjoy doing at whatever time your interested in doing it , and you'll find that eventually the wrenchin' thing on the car will get old and you'll be back tinkering with the TVs . Or not , , but whatever ya do , stay away from the Lionel trains , those things are like Crack for old farts like us

Oh , and to TV collector ,

I got NO idea what this "Mother in law position" is you refer to , And I know I'll probabally regret this , But please share , what exactly IS this scary position of which you speak ??

[Username1]

HA!

I didn't get it either......

I pretty much turned my hobby stuff into seasonal activities. I do some electronics,
stove work, and other welding activities in the winter, when I don't wanna be outside
anyway. Summer is of course for cutting grass (5 acres) so it takes 4 hours each weekend
day. Then there are electable car repairs, stuff I can see coming, and don't
wanna do in the winter, brakes, muffler re-wrapping, oil, etc.

But I always keep my eye out for a tv to add to the "to do" tv list. But as the room is
getting full, and I have a few of my all time fav's already, I'm more choosey, and not
willing to drive very far anymore....

Too many interests, too many daily activities, and too little time limit what ya can do...

I try to be realistic in trying to get it only if I believe "I will" eventually get to it....

And all the things listed above are easily defeated if it's a nice day for a long bike ride....
And this goes anytime of the year.... If it's Feb. and a 60 degree day comes along, I'll
be on the bike.....

[Electronic M]

Not so much as my available time to do things fluctuates...Though other things sometimes capture my interest more strongly for short periods...Usually when I loose interest in something I almost completely abandon it.

[maxhifi]

My interest comes and goes. Basically takes an interesting project once in a while to rejuvenate my interest... All tvs are not equal and too much of anything is boring. I like working on cars too what has your attention?

[Jon A.]

My TV repair interest came back with reinforcements a long, long time after I had abandoned it and other hobbies. The other things soon followed. I have pretty much came full-circle since my early teens. I'll go for just about any type of vintage electronic device imaginable, but unlike my early teen years, the TV interest came out on top.

Thanks to The Impossible Project, I can still shoot with integrated instant film.

[Username1]

The Impossible Project, is that the company that started making Polaroid Film again....?
I heard about that, It was on Marketplace one night over a year ago if I'm not mistaken..

Do they make it for just the SX-70's or for the manual pull it out yerfelf camera's too..?

I still got a One Shot I think it was called.... Took 88, 108, 107, and some other one too...

I think the 107 was B&W, 108 was Wide Screen color, and 88 was 4:3 Color....

HA ! HA ! Pretty funny ! ! !

[Jon A.]

They make film for SX-70, 600 and Spectra System cameras, the latter two of which I own. I own an Impulse AF and an original Spectra System camera. No need for them to make the pack film at the moment, Fuji still makes it.

You may have meant OneStep, I've never heard of One Shot.

[TV-collector]

I have muffler problems and other car problems only in winter,
just because it is so nice to work outside with freezing hands!

@ init4fun
Please think at the old Ford model A with the mother-in-law seat!
She is always with you, but you try to keep her in distance!

TV-Collector

[Username1]

Got a little more interested so I went to ebay to look for the old Polaroid cameras
the one I have is the Square Shooter 2, a really dull looking all plastic body
with pull starter and wrist strap permanently attached to the camera body.
I bought it new when I was a really little kid for around $21.89 at Korvettes, it was
on sale, and for $24.88 I could have got the Square Shooter Plus, but didn't have
the extra money.... The Square Shooter Plus, and that may not have been the name,
but that one had a built in mechanical wind up timer on the side of the bellows part
of the body..... On ebay they have a Square Shooter 4 with the timer on the side, so
who knows, there may have been a plus, or there may not. One day I gotta pull mine
out, I don't remember the 2, or 4, being on my camera..... I guess my brain is getting old.....

I remember the news story when Polaroid stopped making their film, I remember one of
my early drivers licenses was made using a Polaroid, it did either 2 or 4 at a time.
We had to wait till the did the 2 or 4 people to get ours.

I really liked that camera, it took great pictures, it had a focus on it, and adjustment for light,
I remember taking good pictures in all light levels, really a good camera.

My dad still has a SX-70 at the house, that was a really sweet camera too.... I use to make
all kinds of stuff with the old batteries. Popular Science I think did a piece on the batteries,
they were exceptionally strong for their size, and weight.....

A lot of very cool innovations came out of Polaroid.....


http://en.polaroid-passion.com/polar...ilms.php?id=55

Found another website, this lists a Super Shooter, and Super Shooter Plus, so now I
think Mine must be a Super Shooter..... And the blue writing on the front seems to
bring back a faded memory, and the Super Shooter Plus has the timer.... They can be seen
on ebay.....

I bet each time sales dipped a bit, they redid the graphics and re named the camera and
that was it.... Look at all the camera's that took that 88 film, they look the names up on
ebay, and they all look pretty much the same..... Still a dam good camera.

.

[danny]

The batteries used in these films were also used in the sinclear pocket tv.

[marty59]

My interest has always been there it's just a matter of figuring out the time to fit projects in!

[Jon A.]

Originally Posted by Username1

Got a little more interested so I went to ebay to look for the old Polaroid cameras
the one I have is the Square Shooter 2, a really dull looking all plastic body
with pull starter and wrist strap permanently attached to the camera body.
I bought it new when I was a really little kid for around $21.89 at Korvettes, it was
on sale, and for $24.88 I could have got the Square Shooter Plus, but didn't have
the extra money.... The Square Shooter Plus, and that may not have been the name,
but that one had a built in mechanical wind up timer on the side of the bellows part
of the body..... On ebay they have a Square Shooter 4 with the timer on the side, so
who knows, there may have been a plus, or there may not. One day I gotta pull mine
out, I don't remember the 2, or 4, being on my camera..... I guess my brain is getting old.....

I remember the news story when Polaroid stopped making their film, I remember one of
my early drivers licenses was made using a Polaroid, it did either 2 or 4 at a time.
We had to wait till the did the 2 or 4 people to get ours.

I really liked that camera, it took great pictures, it had a focus on it, and adjustment for light,
I remember taking good pictures in all light levels, really a good camera.

My dad still has a SX-70 at the house, that was a really sweet camera too.... I use to make
all kinds of stuff with the old batteries. Popular Science I think did a piece on the batteries,
they were exceptionally strong for their size, and weight.....

A lot of very cool innovations came out of Polaroid.....


http://en.polaroid-passion.com/polar...ilms.php?id=55

Found another website, this lists a Super Shooter, and Super Shooter Plus, so now I
think Mine must be a Super Shooter..... And the blue writing on the front seems to
bring back a faded memory, and the Super Shooter Plus has the timer.... They can be seen
on ebay.....

I bet each time sales dipped a bit, they redid the graphics and re named the camera and
that was it.... Look at all the camera's that took that 88 film, they look the names up on
ebay, and they all look pretty much the same..... Still a dam good camera.

.

The Impulse AF was my first instant camera, it cost me just over 90 bucks I think in 1993 from a camera shop in what turned into a dead mall and is now an office/medical building. I recently bought a NOS unit. My first one was a display model with two shots left on the film. I got the optional carrying case made just for that type of camera, no idea why that was thrown in. Pretty hard to come by these days, picture of one attached.

Oh yeah, I recall my Impulse AF being an exceptional performer in low light, which is more than can be said about today's lower-cost digital cameras, even my Canon with its "high sensitivity" image sensor. Darn thing is much harder to get good pictures with in any light level.

I had a Super Shooter Plus that was given to me at one point, never used it though.

I have noticed all the differently-named Polaroid pack film cameras on eBay that looked pretty much the same aside from the labeling. Marketing scheme for sure.

[cwmoser]

Originally Posted by maxhifi

My interest comes and goes. Basically takes an interesting project once in a while to rejuvenate my interest... All tvs are not equal and too much of anything is boring. I like working on cars too what has your attention?

What has my attention? Haven't worked on TV's or Radios for over a year.
One of my goals was to pull an Engine out of a car. 3 years ago I purchased
an Engine Crane from Harbor freight and just a few weeks ago for the first
time I was able to pull the Engine and Transmission from my wrecked SUV.
Wife is happy that its getting closer having that junker rid of. Seems my
passion of late is shopping Harbor Freight Tools, reading internet forums
about cars, and working on my vehicles.

But, I still love to read restoration progress threads on TVs on this forum.