Picked up a Vintage Colour TV!

[lordkenmore]

I know little about vintage TV. But a few years ago, I played with a tube radio. My research then indicated that collectors were tending to routinely replace ONLY stuff that had high failure risk. Some capacitors hold up well enough that automatic replacement is not necessary. (The two villains that get replaced typically are wax/paper capacitors and electrolytic capacitors.) I'm not sure what happens with vintage TV, but what little I've seen suggests at least some TV collectors follow the same approach. I notice that in Whirlcool's video--the person doing it commented about leaving some stuff original, since those parts are likely to last--and longer than modern Chinese components.

I'm providing a link to a site of a TV collector. There is some stuff about restoration, plus pictures of his collection. I think I posted it before, but some might have missed it, and it's relevant for this thread:

http://evilfurnaceman.tripod.com/

 

[veg-o-matic]

Ralph

Yes, Videokarma is an offshoot of Audiokarma. Link will take you there.

veg

 

[cadman]

My advice....replace only the electrolytic caps and see about the retrace issue. If all else works, leave it alone and fix as fail. A repair shop changing out resistors and caps is far more likely to inflict major damage or cause circuit imbalances than the original parts even accounting for drift. -Cory

 

[whirlcool]

Nobody knows better about television restoration than the people who have done it! The problem with caps is that when they go, they can take other parts with them!

 

[bellalaundry]

Wow...

thanks for all the info and websites to visit. I'll be looking at them tonight for hours I'm sure! Last night I watched "The Importance Of Being Earnest" on the set.

Guy

 

[mpatoray]

Yes VideoKarma has some great guys on there that have restored lots of early sets.
Check out the Early Television Foundation's restoration site, they have restored pre WWII sets. http://www.earlytelevision.org/restoration.html

I agree though, get a sams photofact for it and replace the caps on your own, all electrolytic and paper caps if there are any.

Matt

 

[rp2813]

No question about it. If you have the electronics aptitude, do the work yourself.

Let us know if anything pans out with your local ARF member there.