Spending time with Fred and Barney

[oldtvman]

Spending a little quality time with the Flintstones.

[etype2]

Nice! Is that a Zenith? Not RCA knobs?

[wkand]

Yabba dabba doooo!!!!!

[JohnCT]

[consoleguy67]

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DSCF0295.jpg This was on my 1967 Zenith

[oldtvman]

Originally Posted by etype2

Nice! Is that a Zenith? Not RCA knobs?

Thanks,

I got that set from a guy up in lower Michigan, Had to change crt, crt socket assembly, rebuild the Chroma circuit.

I had a set just like this one back in 1965

[oldtvman]

Originally Posted by etype2

Nice! Is that a Zenith? Not RCA knobs?

IMO both Rca and Zenith produced their finest chassis in that year the ctc 16

and Zenith's 25mc33

[ceebee23]

Interesting that the titles were not in the safe area for roundies given that at the time the show was originally created in color many if not most sets would have been roundies???

[Ed in Tx]

Originally Posted by ceebee23

Interesting that the titles were not in the safe area for roundies given that at the time the show was originally created in color many if not most sets would have been roundies???

If the source is MeTV which broadcasts The Flintstones, they partially zoom in on a lot of the old 4:3 shows to help fill out a 16:9 screen without cutting off too much of the top and bottom, which may answer why it doesn't fit the roundie viewing area.

[etype2]

Originally Posted by oldtvman

Thanks,

I got that set from a guy up in lower Michigan, Had to change crt, crt socket assembly, rebuild the Chroma circuit.

I had a set just like this one back in 1965

Your first? My future brother-in-law had one like yours in that time period.

This RCA was my first, one year out of high school, purchased new, August, 1966 after saving my nickels and dimes. I found one on EBay 6 years ago. Kinda neat to find your first color TV.

[oldtvman]

Originally Posted by etype2

Your first? My future brother-in-law had one like yours in that time period.

This RCA was my first, one year out of high school, purchased new, August, 1966 after saving my nickels and dimes. I found one on EBay 6 years ago. Kinda neat to find your first color TV.

When I got a job in high school I bought a used ctc 7 in 1962

[oldtvman]

I have a ctc 9 in a museum out near you, it's an automobile museum but he also has some period pieces on display.

[jhalphen]

Hi to all,

Here's my first color TV, a 1967 30 tube job made by ITT-Oceanic. 1st generation Color in France for the intro of color TV in Oct 1967. Very complicated as dual standard 819 line B&W + 625 SECAM color. An unusual feature is an EM87 "Magic Eye" ribon tuning indicator. Price when new was 4500 French Francs, +/- the price of a cheap car.

I got the set in 1970 (i was 17) a gift from a well-healed person who was upgrading to a newer model. Back then, i new nothing about color TV repair, just theoretical stuff, so i purchased all the books i could find (5) and tackled the set from page 1, chapter 1.
No advice & no Internet forums back then.
Found out it had 3 faults (V Scan, Convergence board component failures and color decoder dead "permutator" diodes.
Once fixed, i then spent considerable time converging the set (19 controls in total) and a real PIA because of the dual line scan rates.
Also changed all the power tubes in the H/V sections & EHT power supply.
Because of the 450VA power consumption & 30 tubes, i left the back off for the rest of its life & posted a Danger! Warning! HV on my room's door to keep anyone from entering & "dusting".
The TV ran beautifully thereafter without one failure until i left home in 1977.
My father then used it until the early 80s when he purchased a new Sony 19" Trinitron. The Oceanic was given away.

I owe to this set a solid founding foundation in color TV circuitry, theory & practice. I took 4 months to cover everything & learn Scope waveforms via a Kyoritsu 3 MHz single trace tube oscilloscope with AC-only coupling.

Beware of tube sources !
Some of my power section tubes bore the RFT label. Now unknown to me, RFT tubes were DDR manufactured & had lousy/no quality control. A brand new EL519 H output tube red-plated instantly upon power on. Pulled the plug ASAP & saved my flyback.
The EL519 was supposedly a higher power rating replacement for the original EL509.
Needless to say, they all went back to the shop & traded against Philips/Telefunken tubes at much higher cost.

My 2 cents contribution to this memory lane thread...

PS : i have the complete DVD bookcase collection of the Flinstones.

Best Regards
jhalphen
Paris/France

[old_tv_nut]

Hi Jerome! That advert is amazing, specifying the RF sensitivity and the audio power output. Such specs would never be advertised in the US (well, maybe audio power, but only for a combination console, never for a table model).

[jhalphen]

Hi Wayne,

Hope you're well.

If you're interested, i can send to your Mail address (it's on your web site i suppose) the entire 1968-1970 catalogue, 14 pages. Ihe article covers all brands with the same level of detail.

Some interesting sets are the multi-standard models PAL CCIR + SECAM for regions bordering Germany, Switzerland & Holland.
Also an advanced Pizon-Bros 15" set, entirely transistorized except the EHT rectifier. Beat the Sony KV-1220 series which appeared in 1972.

No roundies there, Europe started color service 13 years! after America.

Best Regards
jhalphen
Paris/France