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G.B. · #**631** 02-08-2006, 11:02 PM

I'm sorry but whet kind of TV & Stereo do we have here Hot Rod Chevy ?... Thats what I thought Magnavox...What size screen ? What year for the TV & Stereo ? Do You have a 54 Hot Rod to ?

Charlie · #**632** 02-08-2006, 11:21 PM

Nice looking Magnavox, HR!

I remember we had one of those panthers when I was a kid. Don't know what happened to it... I'm sure it probably got broken.

#**633** 02-09-2006, 09:21 PM

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Originally Posted by G.B.

I'm sorry but whet kind of TV & Stereo do we have here Hot Rod Chevy ?... Thats what I thought Magnavox...What size screen ? What year for the TV & Stereo ? Do You have a 54 Hot Rod to ?

yeah,that's a 54 magnavox.the CRT is a 20 incher so with the mask it's probably around 19.the stereo i'm not quite sure about.it appears to be a 60s RCA hi-fi..and that's all i can tell you about it..compliments the TV well in my opinion.yeah,i got a 54 chevy 2 door with a 68 327..that's why i was so drawn to the magnavox..it's the same year!

frank

Big Dave · #**634** 02-09-2006, 09:24 PM

A nice shot of my Andrea and Philco.

bgadow · #**635** 02-16-2006, 01:02 PM

Here is my 630, which I obtained earlier this winter in trade for some audio tubes. I am surprised (knock wood) how easy this set came back. Aside from a recap it required a 6SK7 (wouldn't stay in sync) & a 1B3 which was killing hv. I also had to replace the horiz. lin. resistor which was open & causing the left side of the screen to spread. I am very pleased with the stability & overall performance of this tv. It needs a top cover (missing when I got it) so if anyone has a spare please let me know.

***Eric H*** · #**636** 02-16-2006, 08:17 PM

Bryan, I think I have a top for a 630 but it's in pretty poor condition.

I'll look for it tonight and let you know

Eric

***Eric H*** · #**637** 02-16-2006, 09:45 PM

OK, I found it and it's actually in good shape, needs refinished is all.
It's yours for the cost of shipping.

Send me a P.M. if you want it.

Eric

bgadow · #**638** 02-17-2006, 11:39 AM

PM sent!

Jonathan · #**639** 02-17-2006, 04:45 PM

Bryan,

I'm very jealous of your working 630TS!

Jonathan

bgadow · #**640** 02-27-2006, 11:43 AM

Here is a set I've had for about 12 years. My then-girlfriend had a friend who inherited her grandfather's house and this was in the attic. I think I gave her $25 for it. I had a better back in those days, I guess, because I hauled this down by myself. Kinda neat as the house and tv were the same age and I could really picture this set sitting in the living room.

The cabinet is pretty beat up. One neat thing is it has a tag on the bottom, just like old Emerson radios, "Cabinet by Ingraham". As found the set worked but barely. The cheater socket had been bypassed and the fuse was replaced with a length of solder! I decided a couple weeks ago that it was time to do something with it. I replaced the electrolytics but only part of the paper caps. I expected a hornet's nest of black beauties but there were only 2; mostly it uses those ceramic-tubular Elmencos. I recapped the vert & horiz and things work fairly well. There was something intermittent killing the hv but now things are right. The crt is a 21FP4 (as I recall), the unusual cylindrical face 21" tube. Unfortunately it is on the weak side; I added a brightener which helps. After awhile I may take it back off and see how it does.

I recall someone else has this set. I need a close-up of the tuner knob. What I have on there now is wrong; the picture in the Sams is to hard to make out.

peverett · #**641** 02-27-2006, 09:33 PM

I have a similar model with a 17 inch tube. I have not yet restored it, but the CRT checks good.

Tony V · #**642** 02-28-2006, 04:09 PM

Hi Bryan,
I have the same set but in the 16 inch version. I have a couple of used spares for your tuning and volume knobs. Just PM me with your addy and i'll dig them up and get them out to you.
Tony

bgadow · #**643** 03-07-2006, 02:22 PM

I've been trying to tackle some of these sets which I have left half finished. This one I just wrapped up so I'll share. I bought this about 8-10 years ago from a local fellow who also had a Predicta. I bought the pair for less than $100. This set was in working order (I only needed to clean the tuner) but it soon developed an intermittent in the vertical. Then the vertical went out completely. At that time (2-3 years ago) I replaced the electrolytics & recapped the vertical circuit, to no avail. Now, with more experience, I dug back into it. At first I suspected the osc. transformer but I found a spare & swapped them with no change. Then I did the trick of running a cap between the filament & the grid of the vert osc. tube & there was no drive. A check of the vert output transformer showed the primary was open. I posted on here and Charles (Kaye-Halbert) came through. With the new part installed I had deflection but poor sync. This took some investigating. It seems that when I recapped the circuit I included a pair of mica caps. Luckily I had saved them. With no schematic on hand I couldn't know for sure but checking the color codes I saw I had messed up. What I thought was a .068 was a .0068 while a .047 was installed in place of what I think was a .00047. It doesn't matter what the values were supposed to be-they were wrong, I had the old micas, so I reinstalled them and the vertical looked right again.

The remaining problem with the vertical section was more dumbness on my part. When I unclipped the old transformer I forgot where the B+ line was connected. The likely places were a line at 290v and another, B-boost, at 400. I finally found a schematic for another set using this same transformer which showed a voltage of 275 so that set me straight. I still wonder if I chose the right place. The set has a hum in the audio which seems to be connected to what the vertical is doing. It's not real noticeable except with the volume down. When I finally get a copy of the schematic I'll know for sure.

One more odd thing-reception had always been good with this tv but when now I could barely pick up the signal from my vcr tuner. I knew the vcr worked okay because the Emerson a few posts back is being fed from it. This took a few nights to figure out and it was a new one on me-the matching transformer was defective! Yeah, just one of those cheap 300-to-75 ohm thingies. If I undid one leg it pulled in the signal clear. Into the garbage it went. This set is now a reasonably good performer again.

Telecolor 3007 · #**644** 03-19-2006, 08:42 AM

Here are 2 "Rekord" tv's like the one I got in an "Romarta" shop in Bucharest, aprox. in 1957-59:
http://forum.softpedia.com/index.php...post&id=103090

Telecolor 3007 · #**645** 03-28-2006, 03:07 PM

I jut got me an B&W Soviet roundie!!! called "Temp" 2
http://oldradio.cz/temp2.htm
http://www.fonar.com.pl/audio/katalog/temp2.htm
I'll try to take some pictures of my own tv, and scan some pages of the instruction manual.
With all that they say that that set was manufactured untill 1956, in 1957 it was still in prodcution.
Mine is manufactured on April the 29th, 1957.
I isn't in quyte qood condition; it layed in a humyd apartament block basement (in that basement are rats too) for 20-30 yrs, and the contcats from the elecrtonic gun are brocken.
The form whic I bought the set sent a "Rekord" in Italy!
Both "Temp" 2 and "Rekord" have C.R.T. with 70 degress dflexion angle and F.M. radio (64,5-73 MHz/Mcs).
"Temp" 2 was the 1st set sold in Romania (in 1956, before tv boadcasting was started for the audicence - December the 31st, 1956) and it was the only roundie sold in Romania!