Vintage Toshiba Pencrest Portable Tube Television Analysis 

Er, he turned it on???

Bahahaha!!

wow

That total no doubt includes their excellent Computer CRT's

Can't tell you how many Toshibas I owned probably like 2 or something

@@billcosby1908 What was REALLY in your Jello pudding pops?

Before 1964 the Japanese electronic Industry began to Adopt Deming system taken from Bell lap to improve quality. When Japan sponsor 1964 Olympic they designed and build zingaizen or a bullet train and got out of under develop country. Japanese electronics components has different grade for export. The one send to the US is the quality grade as you can see. I had Sanyo colour TV 19" that I brought under Sears for $630.00 electronic tuning in 1981 and it never fail until we got rid of it in 2017.

Doc:”No wonder this circuit failed,it says “made in Japan!” Marty:”What do mean Doc,all the best stuff is made in Japan.”

@@johnmadow5331 Yes, if the American consumer electronics industry had not ignored Deming they would've survived. Zenith factories were still turning out good stuff as late as the 80s though. A friend of mine bought a US made zenith TV in 1984 and had it until TV switched over around 2011. The only things I had to do to it during 25 years of daily use were replacing one transistor in the remote control receiver and adjusting the color pots on the neck of the picture tube.

I worked for Nissan in the 80s. The funny thing about cars was that in those days the American cars were more advanced electronically than the Japanese. My impression at the time was that the Japanese killed the big 3 by creating a product that didn’t need as many repairs. The first thing that pops in my head is how US cars leaked oil like crazy (crumby cork and paper gaskets) while the Nissans would be dry with 100k miles. How many sets of valve cover gaskets did you put on your old Chevy? By the late 90s the big three mostly figured it out but lost a big part of the market. Now Nissans are problematic pieces of crap.🤔😂

I agree; I have two 13-inch color CRT TV/VCR models (completely transistorized with the sole exception of the display because they were built in 2003) that still mostly work! The VCR on the white one went out some time ago (I think a plastic piece broke off inside the mechanism) and the VCR on the black model shakes and shudders and the picture fills with interference lines when the picture tube tries to warm up (I think it has to do with the converter box I use on it - yes, both models are analog and so need a converter box to watch TV on them.), but other than that, they still work. I recently replaced the white one with a TCL Roku TV (plenty new enough to be a DTV ready set).

I sometimes have that problem too.

Put some hair around it.

You have to finger the tubes longer.

Japanese quality was post-war, thanks to Dr. Deming who was sent over to Japan at the request of General Douglas MacArthur who was tasked with rebuilding Japan. It took over a decade for Americans to realize that their experience with Japan's pre-war quality was no longer valid.

Luxman have always been built with an extraordinary style and quality, for 60 years. I've serviced hundreds and every one was special in some way.

Toshiba using up and clearing out their stock of old tubes and using newer tech passives. It makes for a pretty resilient set.

Looks mid-late '60s to me - the styling, typography, metal chassis, total absence of PCBs or wet aluminium caps, UHF tuner stuck on the top as an afterthought. No way this could be from the '80s!

@@AaronSmart.online No, I'm talking about if you just saw the outside of it and had no idea what was inside....like if you saw it on display

@@justsumguy2u I was talking about both the inside and outside, totally '60s

@@AaronSmart.online Gotta be 1964 or 65. UHF tuner added wherever it would fit to comply with the then new "all channels act".

China manufactures product to the standard that the purchaser wants.. if they are asked to make junk then they make junk.

Polystyrene it is. They normally don't go bad, only from overheating.

It can be used for a video game console. You can install your Atari 2600, NES, SNES and Sega Genesis to play your game on this good old Penncrest TV.

Jc Penney’s catalog as well as Sears show it being offered from 1964-1965.

I tend to think of them in quality radios, very stable and worth the pennies :-D

I have occasionally found them in the sweep circuits of Japanese-made sets much like the subject of this video. The big problem with them is the extreme temperature sensitivity - had one set redplating the horizontal output tube because a polystyrene coupling cap in the oscillator circuit had melted from the heat of the tubes and shorted!

Yep, also known as Styroflex caps, possibly German made? Seen a lot in (west) German radios. They are usully very reliable, but a nightmare to solder. Maybe someone shorted 'em through overheating while soldering components nearby. The normally don't go bad on their own so Shango's statement surprised me a bit.

I love how he handled it, I laughed so loud. I had to stop the video back it up and show my wife how to deal with telemarketers. I am going to try that in the future.

yep it does. Reppin' KC

I thought this TV was series-string. At least I didn't notice any power transformer.

Toshiba, Nec, Sharp, Mitsubishi, Jvc, Panasonic makes nice and reliable produts still today .

It's on the top of the set

In my corner of the world, a _growler_ is something you refill with beer...

@@EngineeringVignettes In my corner of the world you would first get slapped, then arrested for filling a growler with beer.

Like yourself, I leave here with more questions than answers now.....

I actually thought you might have suggested the one lady get two of them....