I'm an old TV tech and I enjoy your trouble shooting videos immensely. I've restored one of those sets and it's little brother the 9 incher. There was good news and bad news, the good news is it works like it did when new, the bad news is it works like it did when new...
This is a 1956 model. I noticed that the wax paper capacitors were labeled paper "condensers," as that term was often used up until the late-40's or so. These components mentioned might possibly be leftover war-surplus items. Beginning in the early 1950's, the more modern term "capacitor" started to appear. Whoever replaced the selenium rectifier did a pretty smart thing, because when those things go, it really tends to stink things up.
Hi Shango. I am glad you did this video and covered so much. I have the same model and hope to be able to recap and replace out of tolerance part's this year. Thank you for posting this it will be a big help to me. And others. I hope to see you go checking out mines, sometime this year. Take care.
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I bet that TV weighs a lot. That's a Frankenstein TV. When that TV was manufactured you had to repair your TV because they were so expensive and you couldn't afford a new one. Even the black and white sets were costly. Watching this reminds of a job I used to have. I work in a place that sold capacitors, tubes and circuits for just about anything you could need them for. I worked filling orders in a huge warehouse that had hundreds of bins.
When we were first wed in 1969, we moved to a neighboring state to find work. We lived in a small apartment and had that exact set, well except the color part of the case was pink. It served us well.
It's interesting how breaking from your diagnostic routine can really mess with you. I've found the same to be true with auto repair. If I skip the preliminary stuff it always comes back to bite me.
15:00 - interesting your concern about even "getting close" to those two appealingly yellow-colored aspirin-looking thingies. Always in the back of my mind, I recall my "tween" years in the 60's taking things apart like TVs and radios and poking around inside, unaware of the dangers of latent high voltage in the capacitors or whatever. And i had opened recently used sets, so there was danger there. Somewhere in that time frame i had seen a guy short the yoke to the chassis with a large, long screwdriver (i think it was when my dad brought the set to the TV repair shop), then i realized there was danger inside and was more careful about what i touched within any "Mains" electrical device from then on.
About opening that can - You need to reference Radiotvphononut's video of the Muntz stereo for guidance on the proper shoe to use for maximum efficiency.
Right near the fuse, you missed a wax cap, might want to change it, especially if it's an AC line bypass cap, those pop easily. I'm sure you know that, but it would really stink to put in all that effort and then have a capacitor go bang.
HELP! I love your video! Can you give me any tips on how to get the works out of my 1956 RCA Victor portable TV? I've tried everything I know, which isn't much apparently! 😮 I've removed all screws and tried gently prying off the front cover (which seems attached to the tube and inside components) It comes out about an 1/8 inch then seems to be held up on something. This is a tv from my childhood and would love to restore it. THANK YOU! Doug
You know shango, i'm wondering why tv manufacturers in the old days never had a button to turn the CRT off completely so there is just sound playing like you can today, to use it as background noise or for the blind sort of thing, that simple button would have trebled the lifespan of the CRT, also shango if you want to get scratches out of CRT's use PEEK metal polish with a dremel soft polishing brush on medium speed.
25:00 ha ha, I've cut the "works" from a new, but crushed plastic-bodied fluorescent starter that i had stored under a sink, and replaced the guts from an ancient, inoperative, metal-cased starter, and instead of soldering the new works in, i attached the thin wires to the old starter pin wires with small home-made clips of bent metal, inserted the assembly into into the old metal casing, and voila, the light now works perfectly.
I love these videos i just wish youtube existed when I was much younger I used to go around on what we called big garbage day it doesn't exist here anymore but I would take all sorts of things home to take apart had youtube existed back then I would have been able to sell them after I fixed them. Ahh the early years when you were allowed more then 1 bag a week, I sure miss it. Is there a year of tv's that you can't repair? like everything before the 60's or ?
Long before RU-vid existed there were all kinds of books on electronics readily available in many public libraries. Simple viewing won't give you sufficient expertise for electronics repair.
Some justice, the SOB who designed that impossible to work on circuit board design is almost certainly dead. That's a great way to replace an old electrolytic.
Oh man you’re going to hate me but when I was a kid us kids in the neighborhood would go through our parents boxes of spare vacuum tubes as everyone thought they needed a ton of spare tubes to save money on having to hire a tv repairman, well we’d have vacuum tube wars where we’d throw vacuum tubes at each other and enjoy the glorious pop the tubes would make when they’d hit the sidewalks and road surfaces of our battle grounds.
Possibly poor regulation somewhere causing objects to appear to move, could be H.T. that's going up and down ? Is the whole picture swelling and contracting ? if so then it will be H.T.variance.
I found a nearly identical-looking set yesterday: a model "C4P" made by Canadian GE, which appears to be uncommon considering I couldn't find any reference to it on the Internet! Unfortunately, someone picked out all of the tubes (except for the CRT of course) and only two of the sockets are marked. I'm wondering... could anyone help me with a tube list with the corresponding sockets? I'm hoping it will be similar if not the same as this 14T014 unit.
For all you guys that love capacitors you know some of the oil filed ones i have found the name of a capacitor that i had to do some deep diging to find the name the name is merson i cant remember if this is the correct spelling for for this cap but deforrest crossly use them in the 20s and 30s
shango066 Ha! I can see how the subtly can escape many... ;) Good stuff, bud. My electronics ability on the scale compared to yours is quite low, but I enjoyed what I've seen of your stuff and actually learned some things. I've only done the most basic of things - heck, just added some LEDs to the meters of my Carver TFM-15 amps and built a couple mono tube amp kits. I like soldering. Heh... I may be on par with, say, a chef in training who only cooks the rue every night. But I 'get' your humor and just swimming in a sea of information, you're bound to get wet so... Let's see...how many more analogies can I make... :P Anyway, I'm disabled (wheelchair bound) and live alone with two feline creatures so I like finding things like this. It makes me feel like I'm hanging out and actually I think I would enjoy just chilling in your shop and asking questions from time to time. I think, if I'm right in my observations, that you like talking about this stuff a lot and I just don't think I would ever get tired of hearing it. Actually...I have a question for you about the tube amps I built. Can I just shoot you a PM or whatever with a schematic attached? My question involves an optional capacitor that I asked about in several other forums but nobody really knew what it did. So of course...I stuck it in... ;) Didn't quite notice the difference but... Hey...I can point at it and grunt. So would you mind a newbie question? :D
