Picked up my first Color Tube set-for only $1!!!

[Captainclock]

I have yet to find any vintage color tvs around my area (no portacolors or anything) It was just dumb luck that I came across an extremely rare Philco Townhouse 19" B & W TV at the antique mall the other day for $15.

[ZackN920]

I don't know if ya read my story at the beginning of this thread, but this one was luck as well. I just happened to know exactly what it was, from a picture only showing the back. This set would probably be in the trash or grossly overpriced in some antique/junk shop if I didn't pick it up. That's a nice set you found, and for real cheap at an antique mall! Last antique tv I saw at an antique mall/shop was an abused Emerson table top from '53 that was overpriced at around $100!

Welp, back to the Porta-color. Played my SNES on it for about 2-1/2 to 3 hour's this afternoon/evening. Ran good, but when hot, the picture shrunk a bit on the top and bottom. Had 1/4" black bars along the top and bottom. I don't know if I should worry about this or just not care. Also noticed, when paused the picture has a slight wavy flag effect. Should I worry about my e-caps because of this? I think i've read somewhere here that, that is a sign of faulty e-caps...

[Captainclock]

Originally Posted by ZackN920

I don't know if ya read my story at the beginning of this thread, but this one was luck as well. I just happened to know exactly what it was, from a picture only showing the back. This set would probably be in the trash or grossly overpriced in some antique/junk shop if I didn't pick it up. That's a nice set you found, and for real cheap at an antique mall! Last antique tv I saw at an antique mall/shop was an abused Emerson table top from '53 that was overpriced at around $100!

Welp, back to the Porta-color. Played my SNES on it for about 2-1/2 to 3 hour's this afternoon/evening. Ran good, but when hot, the picture shrunk a bit on the top and bottom. Had 1/4" black bars along the top and bottom. I don't know if I should worry about this or just not care. Also noticed, when paused the picture has a slight wavy flag effect. Should I worry about my e-caps because of this? I think i've read somewhere here that, that is a sign of faulty e-caps...

I have no idea because I have very little experience with working on color tvs older than 1980s I actually had gotten a couple of 1980s vintage color sets from my high school that I went to, one of them being a 1987 vintage 25" Panasonic TV that wouldn't power on anymore (it was set up in the PE office at the school and the plug had a chair shoved up against it with the plug partially bent out of the wall) so I had asked if i could take it home and monkey around with it and my PE teacher said I could but I should probably ask the principal just in case, and so I did and he said go ahead because we don't have any use for a TV that isn't working, so at parent teacher conferences my dad and I loaded the TV up into the back of the van and I took it home with me and opened it up (because I suspected from the fact that the cord was bent up like it was with a metal chair leg up against it that it had a blown fuse) and sure enough the fuse was blown and I replaced it with a new fuse and powered it on and sure enough it worked again, and that TV worked for a couple of years until I accidentally shorted it out when I was trying to make some slight picture adjustments.)
The other TV I got was a late 1980s 25" Sony Trinitron TV that was a stereo MTS enabled unit but only had one built in speaker and had a full set of AV jacks on the back and on screen display that I ended up giving to a friend of mine who used it until the the built in speaker went out and then he ended up throwing it out. And the other TV I got from my high school was another 25" Panasonic, this one being from around 1990 and it had on sceen programming and everying and its original remote and I ended up giving it to another friend of mine to use and they are still using it to this day.

As for the Philco Townhouse its mostly up and running except needing to redo the aquadag coating on the back of the picture tube and replacing some capacitors in the vertical output/amplifier stage.