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Found in my attic. Help!!
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10-03-2018, 02:30 PM
My Dad's Sparton smoked the selenium's on a regular basis. His Zenith B&W replacement did chug along for 5 or so years before needing a tube, but the pix was fading. Even my first Arvin portable B&W went for a few years then got intermittent. My first color sets were used Silvertones CTC-15 chassis, after the usual re-soldering, pix rejuvenation it was every 3-4 months needing chroma alignment, 6GH8's I bought in sleeves. I had two, when one crapped I had a spare and a jig to test it on. Even got bargains on re-built pix tubes and spare fly-backs... Said goodby to those time and $$$ eating monsters in '95... One-gun boosters, with a triple gun filament booster, storing the spare pix behind the couch Icon_crazy

The restoration and everyday or even occasional use of the TV will be a tough experiment for the average person...
Yes, it must be used regularly as the new electrolytic capacitors will fail even sooner... Keeping it off will not preserve it...

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Chas
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Found in my attic. Help!! - by 43ddoc - 10-02-2018, 12:01 PM
RE: Found in my attic. Help!! - by 35Z5 - 10-02-2018, 01:22 PM
RE: Found in my attic. Help!! - by klondike98 - 10-02-2018, 01:25 PM
RE: Found in my attic. Help!! - by klondike98 - 10-02-2018, 01:28 PM
RE: Found in my attic. Help!! - by 35Z5 - 10-02-2018, 01:55 PM
RE: Found in my attic. Help!! - by klondike98 - 10-02-2018, 02:01 PM
RE: Found in my attic. Help!! - by radio63 - 10-02-2018, 02:32 PM
RE: Found in my attic. Help!! - by 43ddoc - 10-02-2018, 03:47 PM
RE: Found in my attic. Help!! - by morzh - 10-02-2018, 04:46 PM
RE: Found in my attic. Help!! - by Jayce - 10-02-2018, 05:27 PM
RE: Found in my attic. Help!! - by Kestas - 10-02-2018, 09:15 PM
RE: Found in my attic. Help!! - by Chas - 10-03-2018, 10:10 AM
RE: Found in my attic. Help!! - by 35Z5 - 10-03-2018, 11:56 AM
RE: Found in my attic. Help!! - by morzh - 10-03-2018, 01:16 PM
RE: Found in my attic. Help!! - by Chas - 10-03-2018, 02:30 PM
RE: Found in my attic. Help!! - by 35Z5 - 10-03-2018, 02:56 PM
RE: Found in my attic. Help!! - by Chas - 10-03-2018, 03:18 PM
RE: Found in my attic. Help!! - by morzh - 10-03-2018, 03:43 PM
RE: Found in my attic. Help!! - by 35Z5 - 10-03-2018, 05:01 PM
RE: Found in my attic. Help!! - by Arran - 10-09-2018, 03:43 AM
RE: Found in my attic. Help!! - by 43ddoc - 08-16-2020, 03:31 PM



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