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Webcor 9" B&W TV
Found this at a Thrift today.
I would have sworn it was a Tube set on first glance but it's Solid State, made in Japan by Hitachi judging by the labels and logos inside. It works, controls were dirty so I sprayed them with cleaner, haven't hooked up a signal yet but pretty sure it'll make a picture. It has instant on but the CRT seems OK if not super bright. Needs cleaning and the glare shield needs a big scratch buffed out. |
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That's a nice TV that looks well built. I also think it's the first Webcor badged TV that I've seen. I think that by the late '60's-early '70's, the original Webcor company was a thing of the past and the name wound up on a lot of imported electronics, sort of how they do things today. Does that set use a solid state "stick" HV rectifier or does it use a tube? I know that many of these earlier SS B&W TV's still retained a tube for the HV rectifier.
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NICE!!
Exactly the sort of thing I woulda picked up! What do you use for polishing the scratch out? The few times I've done it, I used Novus in different stages. Novus is great for scratches in acrylic aquariums, then a quick polish with Plexus. That's a pretty nasty scrape. I would ALMOST consider good measurements and a visit to Ridout plastics (or whatever local plastics place to you). |
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Yeah, that 'un would likely have come home w/moi, too...
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Watashi mo...I mean me too!
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When I was a child, my mother once mentioned Webcor as a radio brand she would avoid "because they went out of business so parts will not be available". If she could only see me now! (Or any of the rest of us collectors who will not even blink at the most obscure and old brands.)
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You choose a grit depending on how bad the scratch is, in this case I probably would try the foam pad and rubbing compound, if that won't do it I'll use the 3000 grit pad followed by rubbing compound and then polish. I used this system on a Predicta screen and it came out fairly nice. |
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In this case Hitachi was probably equal to or better than Webcor quality, not like now where it's guaranteed to be junk.
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