Art Margolis

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I first found out about art margois in 3rd grade. A friend invited me over and we looked through his dads 1973 popular mechanix encyclopedia. Being into TV's then, Under "TV" was one of Art's books (published for the encyclopedia). Thats were I learned all the basic fundamentals of TV troubleshooting and learned what tubes do what. I always enjoyed looking at the pictures in those books. That made me want to find those types of sets even more. I remember having a 12" 1965 magnavox portable b/w with the dials on the side (japanese set) and it had a blank raster, no sound. At that time, I only had a eico 555 tube tester, which didnt do a thing for me as it was pre compactron tester. Later on, I found a knight 400A at the resale shop and then everything took off! Too late, already took that set apart but kept the chassis and tested the tubes. Sure enough, the sync AGC tube was bad. I wish I still had that set. Anyway,
I still have that volume of the encyclopedia he gave me. Dad didnt care, he never used them. Since being on ebay, I think I have every volume he made for TV repair, starting in 1959. "Professional TV repair secrets". Most books were the same layout, similar pictures, but all were slightly different.
As for Art Margolis today, he may still be around. There are two "Art Margolis" living in Florida as of today.

One is in Pompano Beach, FL and is 85 years old, the other is in Sarasota and is 80 years old. Either one may very well be him. You can find out by searching the name on whitepages.com for phone number etc.

Seems like most of us started out in TV hobby by having his books. He gets alot of the credit as far as I'm concerned.