GE 10" "portacolor III" AB chassis TV

[Dave A]

I have that same Samsung variant and it is the best of the small sets I own. Garage sale find and probably not many hours. Opened it once for drive settings and linearity fix. Color is very accurate.

[zeno]

Originally Posted by Rod Beauvex

Gave upon the face of evil, ye sinners, and repair--err, despair!

GE badged set looks visually similar, but appears to have a different chassis than the one earlier posted. Set is a Korea built GE model, from 86, with a Samsung 2701B22-ST.

So is this related to any of the above mentioned sets, or is this yet another variant?

Still produces a nice picture, though the set is getting old, and could probably benefit from a recap.

Its a common Samsung K-20 chassis. Samsungs & gold stars started
showing up everywhere about this time under many aliases.
The first few years they were toilets but slowly improved.
This one wasnt bad to work with & ran as good as any low end set.
They just look messy & cheap inside. Compared to the first
Chinese sets back around early 90's they were a Cadillac.

73 Zeno

[zenith2134]

One of my first TVs was a 1982 Samsung 2-13 pushbutton 13" color set..with IR remote! It was attached to a Sharp 2Head VHS VCR with wired remote.
Sold both of those in 1997 at a yard sale for 40 bucks cash.
Once I found a 12" b/w Samsung from 1984 that was ant infested. It worked. and It had a quirk that when you powered it down, the raster very slowly shrunk in size, evenly at all sides, until the picture just disappeared into a dot.

[radiotvnut]

Years ago, I sold a lady a '79 13" Samsung color TV and she's still using it.

[Dave A]

Back to the GE Portacolor III vault here. My original Samsung version went PS south 3 years ago. Neighbor gave me the same set his teenage son was replacing. High mileage but working fine. CRT a bit tired but ok for the kitchen set on top of the fridge. I decided to replace it with a strong 2002 13" Sony today and popped it on the Beltron for fun before recycling. A Beltron cleaning brought it back like new and almost as sharp as the Sony replacement. Pic is a bit blue but the color is spot on vs. the Sony. Great, now I have to keep the little guy somewhere.