There's a lot of people out there, especially youngsters, who just wouldn't get this. "you could just buy another". Glad people like you & me repair things.
@@nowt1002 I've got a Thorn TX9 16" in a shed somewhere, with optional text + full remote + optional 12V inverter. They were an eye watering £399 + inverter at the time. Customer who gave it me just had it in their caravan for ocasional use. One day I'll dig it out...I've a Fidelity AVS1600 & an AVS2000 both working in the same shed somewhere...these are 10 x 16 sheds by the way! Richard
Yeah it's a lot to spend for a set to only use occasionally. I would quite like a TX9 or TX10, I don't have the space for more TVs though. I need to slim down my collection a bit really. Those AVS systems always looked interesting, I've not seen one for years.
I heard that far more from older people in their 50's and up, it the new generation gamers saving these. It was the older gen that destroyed so many classic cars too.
We had this TV's big brother, a 21", bought new from Rumbelows in 1987 (I guess this would be the same year, it's very similar). The batteries went on mine as well at about 10 years old and I replaced them with two half-AA cells (the original was two such cells spot-welded in a pack as I recall) bought from RS - my first actual TV repair as getting parts back then was tricky if you weren't in the trade, and I was working for a small engineering company at the time and the boss helped me out getting stuff. Thinking back, probably could gave got them from maplun but hey ho. Unfortunately I gave the set to my nan who promptly knocked over a vase full of water down the back of it and that was that 😂 That must have been quite an expensive set back in the day, an "FSQ" tube portable in the mid-80s.
I'm not sure how much this one was, I was given it in about 2000. It's an ex rental one from Visionhire (still has the sticker on the back). I seem to remember seeing 1988 date codes on some of the parts. The chassis was introduced in 87 so yours would have been one of the very early ones.
@@nowt1002i have the same tv, 15" with the chassis cp90, and the date code reports 1986.. guess they arrived earlier in italy.. well they are very good sets, apart from the back up battery and broken solder joints, they are very reliable
Thanks. Probably not any time soon. I have got a beta machine that needs repairing but it might be too far gone to be honest. I think it had been left in a shed for years, rusty and had sawdust in it. It's a Toshiba V8600.
Yes. That's a modification by me. The original NiCd battery that keeps the tuning stored when the set is unplugged had leaked. It had done some damage to the board but fortunately not too bad, so I put that in as a replacement. They're rechargeable NiMH ones.
I've recently bought the 14 inch model equivalent to yours. I need to adjust geometry pots to get games screen aligned properly. Do i need to push the tray towards me with the TV on in order to dial them?
You might need to pull the board out to get to the pots, some of them can be reached with it in place. It doesn't have many geometry adjustments, just height, width, vertical position and horizontal position I think.
I think so but I'm not 100%, it's a while since I've done it. It's not too difficult to pull it out a bit if you need to though. There's a clip at either side, you open those and pull it.
