Spotted an old Philco at S.A. this morning

[Eric H]

From your picture the CRT looks intact, psooibly just the plastic base has deteriorated somewhat.

The base has an index tab, if it was removed and put back on incorrectly the heaters wont light, or worse, they'd blow from having B+ on them!
The socket seems to be in a natural position so I doubt that's the case here.

The plastic yoke cover also looks pretty deteriorated, that's also common but doesn't mean it's bad.

[HatchetJack]

I wiped off the tubes and snapped some better pics this am. I just cant spot
anything that looks like it got hot and smoked up. My uneducated guess is
that one tube went bad probably 30 years ago and maybe it was
parked in some old lady's house with a fabric over it used as a server or ?
When the guys plugged it up at the S.A., it heated up and was maybe trying
to burn the dust off the tubes and thats what they smelled, I dont know?
Maybe the ? in that enclosed metal box looks a little sootey.

[jeyurkon]

That tube that's up to air with the white getter could short and smoke some components. They don't always short, but it happened to me. At least replace the tube before trying it again.

John

[Eric H]

Looks pretty good overall, the Flyback looks excellent!
The peeling Dag on the tube, the bad plastic on the yoke and the orange plastic on the base of the CRT are nothing to be concerned about, the nipple on the CRT looks fine.

That tube with the white top is bad though, very possible it might fire up if it were replaced.

[HatchetJack]

Ok, I will see if I can find one locally. One of my customers used to repair
VCR's , Stereos and Tv's back in the day for all the local pawnshops and he
is going to swing by and take a look at it. He said he met an old TV repair
guy a month or so back that might have some tubes. So blow it out with an
air hose, replace the tube, plug it in and see what happens?

[DaveWM]

dont blow it out, you will endup getting dag everywhere (the flaking stuff on the crt) and run the risk of blowing a fine wire loose. just replace the tube. If you have a variac and a DMM you could monitor the AC line current.

If no variac then a 100 watt light bulb in series with the ac line would be a good idea.


It may just work, but the filter caps may short, in which case the fuseistor will prob go (pic 5 I think).

a softer start up on a variac will give it a better chance, and at least you could monitor the current.