Inside a TV repair shop

[6GH8cowboy]

We had an island wide enough for two or three consoles in the service area and a mirrored wall to observe from the rear while adjusting. Long antenna leads with "clothes-pin clips. Upper body stregnth was always being built up in those days! We 'serviced while you wait' if the problem was minor.

[6GH8cowboy]

Would that be a 6/ 12 volt power supply behind the head of the guy on the left?
How bout a component sub box on top of the Analyst.
Remember wrist watches! I'd guess late 60's

[electronjohn]

Originally Posted by david c long

A BIT OF HISTORY !
lets identify the stuff in the photo.
It looks to me that the radio on the shelf with the tag is a Howard general coverage receiver.It is just to the right of the RCA color bar generator.

KB2LRI

You may well be right. It could be a Howard...or possibly a National NC-46...which had a similar dial bezel.

[timmy]

the rca color bar dot generator it is and its a wr-64a because i have that one,lol.

[Electronic M]

Originally Posted by ctc17

I bet they all smoked

After touching the wrong wire on a live chassis....You can bet they smoked and swore. lol.

[dieseljeep]

I bet they all smoked[/QUOTE]

Back in those days, it was unusual, if you didn't smoke. When I see old test equipment, you can see right away, the equipment that came from a heavy smokers shop.

[dieseljeep]

Originally Posted by Reece

Wiremold raceway plug strip along the bench front: I have the same (except mine's above on a shelf edge) and I'll bet a lot of you do, too.

I don't think Wiremold makes plugstrip with recepticles that close together anymore. Ever since they had to make it with grounding recepticles.

[Zenith26kc20]

We used "Tapaline" at the first shop I worked in. No polarization, just long strips to plug it in. If you get tingled when standing on the floor after a rain shower in wet shoes, turn the plug over! EICO VTVM's, soldering guns(!) and metal RCA rollaround tables with RCA rubber mats on top. We fixed anything! TV's, radios, car radios, tape recorders, even lighted firemans helmets! Fun days back then, and the owner smoked like a chimney!

[old_coot88]

Originally Posted by Reece

Wiremold raceway plug strip along the bench front: I have the same (except mine's above on a shelf edge) and I'll bet a lot of you do, too.

Yep i've still got one, a 6 footer. Also a set of three mini-cabinet IRC resistor assortments in 3 wattages (although the stock's severely depleted from 'post retirement' work over the years). And about third remaining of a 1 lb.roll of Kester 'real' solder from back in the day.

[sanjarali]

I make pleasure myself from the story talk of before times!!!

In village of my borning, me uncle Bishar Ali would renew the frequent households and TV sets of the upper caste. He would pleasure himself to your stories also. Yet he was cut off head for disloyalty to the party group, so he has passed.

This is why contine myself in his way and love TVS

[old_tv_nut]

Originally Posted by Electronic M

After touching the wrong wire on a live chassis....You can bet they smoked and swore. lol.

Work with one hand in your pocket so you can be the engineer and not the conductor.

[reeferman]

One thing I don't see and don't care to are cockroaches and the occasional mouse or rat. Removing the back, hard telling what might come out to surprise you.

[Reece]

"Remember wrist watches?" ????

Ersin multicore. Wish I still had some of the latter.

[Zenith26kc20]

Roaches, rats and mice were the norm. One day I went to a house to service a magnavox console and the owners son was under a big cardboard box with a tiny hole to watch me. As I pulled the set from the wall, I asked, "What are you doing under the box?". His reply, as he peeked from under the box was, "I want to see what happens when you poke the wasp nest in the TV!". I took my flashlight and looked carefully thru the holes in the back, and hanging from the top of the cabinet was a wasp nest the size of two closed fists, covered in wasps. Needless to say, I did not fix the set. The wasps were coming in from a broken window covered by a curtain behind the set.
Another one was a king snake that went into the set for warmth and got across B boost to ground. The owners were not happy when I picked his remains out of the set with my hot tube puller while their son watched....
Remember mid engine Ford Econoline vans for house calls?

[DaveWM]

looks like the shop I "worked" in one summer as a kid, about 13 IIRC. Really just after school day care (dad was friend of the shop owner). Owners wife/office manager did not like it at all, I would work on AA5's and totally mess up her inventory system by pulling parts and not keeping track of them.