WOW, this is the exact TV I grew up with lmao. At one point in '85 or '86, something happened to the CRT and if it was off for too long, it would take damn near 3 hours until a picture showed up, though you could still hear audio. Funny thing is, after the 3 hour garbage was discovered, mom and dad left it on 24/7 for almost 14 years straight.
Here's something to think of about this set, it's 40 years old. 40 and there's still life in the CRT, the chassis is still working. That someone paid the better part of $500 for it in '82 I'd say they got their money's worth out of it. For ugly plastic and particle board and cheap electronics I wouldn't complain too much. As for that house, holy cow, all those old CRT's and especially the old low deflection ones and small roundtubes, what a score! Totally worth trashing some of your near dead ones to take in a bunch of those. Even if you won't use them it's very likely someone would gladly take them.
i have a 1965 valve/tube dual standard 405/625 (i'm in the uk) black n white tv that has an excellent emission crt, and it still works , plus a 1968 transistorised one also vgc, .. none have been recapped, the valve/tube one has had to have a new video detector diode fitted, thats it
@@andygozzo72 I have a Ferguson Courier III in the bedroom (BRC 1400 chassis) which sports a CRT with fantastic emission. The picture is lovely and bright and IMO displays a more crisp, punchy and dynamic picture on the 405-line sources than it does on 625. The Pye 48 is the same in that respect. I think the best 405 picture I've seen to date though might just be the Murphy V10A .. it looked great during restoration but does need the recap completing (signal stages) and the newly rewound LOPT fitted. This is single standard 405-line.
OK I mean this is pretty awesome, but who collects nothing but naked CRTs? If you're a vintage electronics enthusiast, you'll have tons of electronics, circuit boards and spare parts and stuff. If you're a vintage TV collector or repair person, you'll have stacks of old TVs and maybe some VCRs and spare parts and boxes full of remotes, but just naked CRTs with not even a single yoke in sight? WTF man? Simpson's crazy CAT lady just replaced the A with an R...
That Picture tube hoard is AMAZING. Probably the most I've seen pictured in one place. There were at least 3 different 21AXP22s...Those are treasures if good. The Hoffman branded AXP is count it's fellow survivors on one hand rare.
I hope someone who likes old TVs buys the house and takes all the tubes and keep some and goes through them and donate some of the old ones to the museum used ones that are good fixing other TVs and throws away the ones that are no good
Quintessential any-year-in-the 1970s color console TV! Only update was the electronic tuner/channel display. The height of kitsch! I would use it, both as a stand for up to 50 inches of modern OLED, and to play my circa 1980 Atari and Mattel game consoles on, while the flat screen TV on top kept me appraised of the Ukraine situation. Thanks Shango for continuing to provide us something to periodically take our minds off the aforementioned crisis. Phono Nut seems to be laying low the last few weeks
My aunt and uncle had this same exact Quasar console TV in their family room in the basement of their split-level home. Worked great back in the day, and it definitely was cable ready. It was the one TV in their house that didn't require a cable box. Wow, the tacked on video at the end with the house full of picture tubes. I was expecting there to be a CRT in the bath tub.
You just reminded me of a fella I used to know who was into banger racing (in the UK, similar to demo derby kinda thing) and his house was a hoard of spare RWD Ford parts There was literally a gearbox in the toilet one time, not just in the room but in the pan!
More than likely the reason why the picture was "shrunk" vertically and the vertical hold control was diddled so much was because the original owners may have thought there was something wrong with the vertical deflection when the TV was showing 16:9 programming (because of the fact that 16:9 programming shows up "letterboxed" on a 4:3 TV) so they were trying to get the screen to "fill out" when there was letterboxed programming on the TV but then when 4:3 programming showed up on the TV screen they had to readjust the vertical. So with that in mind there probably wasn't actually anything wrong with the TV, just someone who didn't understand how modern ATSC programming worked on an older NTSC set.
My mother-in-law spent years in a recliner watching a Quasar that looked exactly like this one. It was still working when she passed, and it's probably out in the barn gathering dust.
I bought a regunned 14" black and white crt (70 degree deflection, 1950's era) back in 1978 with a very dark/blue cathode, still works well today with plenty of emission.
This would be perfect in a hobby room. Nice blurry picture, after a beer who cares. And the cabinet is ideal for hiding funny herbs. If it pops one day it is not a to big loss.
It always amazes me to imagine somebody shopping for a new TV and picking that thing with that cabinet,,, it's like going car shopping in the mid seventies with your hard earned money and driving home in a Matador or a Pacer.....
@@peterhaan9068 I could go on and on about cars that I can't believe ANYBODY went to the dealer and bought new !! Somebody actually parted their billfold and drove a new 77' Gremlin off the lot ???? YEP !! lol
There is a type of hoarder that collects as many as he can of some hard to get item. He will never be able to use them all. If someone wants to buy one he will say something like "I have a roundy coming in soon, I need them". He never fixes the items, he never sells them, he just wants to have more and more of them. If something happens to him, the family sends everything to scrap. This may not be the case here. Often this happens with antique classic cars. They are stored outside until they rust away and they are not even good for parts.
Those Quasars have a Capacitor near that heat sink the Vertical outputs are on in the Horizontal circuit that will dry up and cause the picture to be dark and smear from left to right side of picture.. Changed many out in the mid to late 80's. I think they got to hot and would fail- Was happy to see one of these ugly sets, sold them new. Thanks !
Fred - ya, I got a vibe of the original 1958 movie "Invasion of the Body Snatchers". Don't go to sleep (let your guard down) for even a minute, or you will become one of them.
@@fredflintstone8048 - Yup, I was frightened just *watching* the vid, and I *knew* what they were, ha ha. Imagine if someone called the cops, and a 20-something shows up - radio call : "psshhhtt... HQ... something's going on here....I don't know what it is, but it looks illegal...psshhtt"
This is beautiful. It looks just like the one my great grandparents had when I was a kid. I have a lot of great memories of watching Wheel Of Fortune with my great grandma in the early 80s.
@@marcusdamberger PERSONAL KNOB... wasn't that a Depeche Mode song? 🤣 Every PAL-I telly in the UK needs a state of the art, new and improved, Personal Knob[tm] ! Get your PERSONAL KNOB know! Hurry while they last!
So, the last Quasar you featured, I talked about how it was "Grandma's TV" and how you couldn't hook your Nintendo to it because Grandma was afraid you'd damage her TV. This Quasar was Grandpa's TV. This Quasar was the TV you found in the home of a man who worked at Chrysler for 35 years, until a robot replaced his job. He was at about retirement age anyway, so he decided to cut his losses. He bought this TV shortly after retiring, and he kept it until the day he died. By the 90's, he was using it as a stand for a newer TV. He never got rid of it because "Well they don't make 'em like this anymore! No they don't make 'em like this anymore. This is gonna be worth something some day! They don't make 'em like this anymore."
@@Xplasma1 I still remember the instruction book specifically noting that my NES was not recommended to be used on front or rear projection TV's. Don't know if it was just my household or whether other's parents/grandparents took that to mean THEIR TV even if it was just a plain-jane 3-gun monolithic bulb...
One thing I miss about analog is that if the signal fades, the picture would get snowy/fuzzy - but you'd still have a picture. Digital of course just goes to blocks and freezes. It's maddening trying to use an indoor antenna with digital.. analog could always just be 'good enough' and still work.
If you watch RU-vid in 480P, 30 FPS, you can get a good idea of how NTSC could look on an excellent signal. The only difference is that 480P is progressive and NTSC was interlaced. 30FPS = 60 fields/second.
@@MattExzy radio is the same way. Analog would just fade. Much like shortwave, AM, HF. FM was less forgiving but still worked on weak signals, within reason. All the digital now is “all or nothing”. It is frustrating in certain situations.
SD broadcasts looked a helluva lot better than how they show up here on YT after all that processing. Personally, I find digital compression artefacts more objectionable than noise in an analogue signal.
I worked at the Quasar factory service center in the 80s. You got to watch out on those where it smears to the right. Could be CRT or maybe not. There are caps that filter the B+ source feeding the CRT socket board that go bad and it will smear to the right just like that. Sometime the cap(s) are on the CRT socket board and sometimes on the chassis near the flyback. Scope the power source going to the CRT socket board for horizontal pulses in the DC. If that’s the case the caps are shot. I fixed a lot of them while working at Quasar.
I took the band off one of those B&W tubes years ago and watched it implode. Lucky to have been behind a couch when it let go. I was impressed how the glass shards embedded themselves in the concrete wall.
The type of TV you leave behind in your double wide, when you finally abandon it. I actually took apart a very similar TV in the mid 90s, and no I did not live in a double wide just a very crappy house that should’ve been abandoned, lol
Excellent work. Hopefully you can grab those pictures tubes from that house and stick them in a storage unit or something so you can completely fix all those tvs you have without fear of the picture tube being worn out!
I hope someone who likes working on old TVs buys the house and sorts through the tubes and keep some and sells them and throws away the ones that are no good
I remember 40 years ago messing with one with the works in the drawer and got shocked which killed the TV. It’s funny thinking back when I used to see these sets in all the stores.
I hate how they went from all wood with envelopes simple styling to plastic monsters but still better then flat screens. Holly crap hope that guy saved as many of those CRTs as he could that where good
I brought my 1st color TV on my 1st paycheck in August 1981. It was Sanyo (Sears) 19" that last until 2017 when I trashed it and paid $60.00. for deposition fee. There is no repair or home service like the big screen floor model that popular during the 60 and 70 in America. The floor model TV similar to this one cost between $800.00-1000.00 in 1970 with home service contract that cost about $80.00 a year that consider $2.5K to day dollar value base on gold standard ($37.42 per ounce back in 1968.) Oh I forgot the moving cost for this size of TV to the shop is more than $100.00 plus service estimate fee plus actual cost that added up probably cost more than the set itself.
Respect the skill and the artistry of the craftsman who slaved for hundreds of hours designing the plastic injection molds to make all the fine filigree on those 1980's "Mediterranean" style TV sets.
Not really. If that poor thing had to listen to Joy Behar and Whoppi Goldberg spouting off their liberal garbage, it would've E.O.L'd itself within five minutes.😂😂😂
Hey Shango. a friend and I were playing with a giegercounter and I had suggested seeing how much Xray radiation My 25" 1988 Zenith Custom Series TV put out and we found out in the process that the Red Phosphor is mildly Radioactive. but here's the Kicker Black matrix tubes put out a lot more Radiation than standard Shadow mask tubes because the Phosphor in arranged in straight lines with joining Black lines for a much Higher black level as well as much higher Resolution. rather than the standard grid style lay out of regular shadow masks. or even aperture grill
As a beaver, I was looking forward to seeing you work on a nice woody tv. I'm very disappointed with the plastic. I'll be filing a grievance with my union. 😉
Hi Shango0. I owed a Quasar back in the day. It had a solid wood cabinet and was one heavy thing. Hope to see another Sunday video, when you can. All my very best.
Shango man, you can't be dropping that at then end of this vid! Holy crap, big smile on my face to say the least! You never know what's hiding around in someones house!
_"But It's Another One Of These"_ - Add that to the flat tone of 066's voice and that pretty much sums up this television's act. 00:18 About as welcome as a fart in an elevator.
It amazes me that the made so many of those 1980s consoles with so much dead air and no attempt to make use of the space just when people were stacking up cable boxes, VCRs, tapes, etc. I don't know what they were thinking.
I hope that somebody that likes older TVs buys the house and sorts through the tubes and keeps them and sells the ones and throws away the ones that are
13:22 I had the same years ago, My TV wont switch on mate, its completely dead, The ON / Off switch must be broken, It needs a new one fitting, if I've been told that once, I've been told it a hundred times, I kid you not. I often used to tell the customer I would supply a replacement switch for free, because I kept a large stock of On / Off switches, the dam things were always going wrong, It would be very easy to fit themselves and save them the call out charge, As I recall, not one person ever took me up on my offer, A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. Right at the top of Mount Stupid, but, as I'm sure you are aware, it takes all sorts to make the World go round (or switch the T.V. on :-) P.S. great RU-vid channel, keep it going my friend.
I'm not much younger and I remember during my childhood how appreciated and highly valued by parents' and grandparends' generations were wine glasses and other table utensils, chandoliers etc. made of lead cristall glass. As far as I remember, picture tubes are made of very high lead content glass - about 20% (except Tektronix's ceramic electrostatically deflected scope CRTs) and the only other glass product that has higher lead content are screens of the sealed chambers used to work on radioactive materials - around 30%. I think CRT's glass is properly recycled, but aren't there craftsmen that can repurpose them without melting? I doubt that after scraping carbon cover out of the bell it would be optically acceptable for a fish tank, but i.e. lighting fixtures might even benefit from this.
Yeah thats the old Quasar logo.....those darn purple panasonic capacitors. I have a panasonic built top loader that has about 200 of them built in 1980. Been replacing them as I go or notice a problem. Yeah, I remember doing calls and customers would say "i think i need a new picture tube" when the vertical collapsed. I used to fix them in home, had the IC caps and resistors on me for most direct view and projection on my truck. I dont think I have seen an old panny for repair like this one since the late 2000's.
This looks similar to one my grandparents on my dad's side used to have when I was growing up. The only difference was the buttons were rounded on the console, and the power button was blue in the middle of it.
Besides Chicago being "Hog Butcher for the World" , we apparently supplied a good part of the US with televisions and associated parts. Matsushita /Quasar was in the nearby suburbs as was Zenith ( picture tube factory, and also a few other plants within Chicago itself), and that one reman tube was also made in the city as well. seems that whole industry, along with B&K Precision / Dynascan / Cobra, and a few other test equipment manufacturers are also all long gone.
The lack of vertical deflection happened to our 1976 Wards TV when I was a little around 1980. I remember two bIack dudes showing up around 10 at night to fix it. This style TV was very common in the early 80s and was pretty much gone by the late 80s in favor of the more modern, compact TV designs. Cable ready was great till they started scrambling the premium channels instead of using notch filters. I remember our neighbor getting the premium channels without a cable box.
I like the comment about the vertical size and a bad picture tube-when I was in school my teacher used to tell us when he would go to the house to fix the set and there would be nothing wrong with the picture but the lady of the house would say she did not like it he would use the vertical hold control to slowly roll the picture and ask the lady as the picture was rolling slowly if she liked that picture better and to tell him to stop when she liked the picture that came into view
Looks similar to what my uncle had from the early '80's; in fact it may be the same model. First experience with Atari 2600 on it. Takes me way back! But I'm pretty sure that one was wood.
The cache of CRTs... wow!! The house is a deemed a hazardous materials site due to all of this, LOL !! Kind of like Rodalco's place. I have commented to Ray that when he dies, they are going to send the bomb squad to deal with his house, because nobody will touch anything inside with all the powered industrial meters and other equipment.
I worked on many of these in the 80's. We used to call these queersars and 'works in your drawers'. We had nicknames for other sets. Generous Electric, Curtis Crapis, Maggotbox,
