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Shame it was going to get tossed out over a trival thing like a belt. Myself, if I really had to, I would use a gum band (what we call "rubber bands" here in Pittsburgh) until I got the right belt to run it. Well, for some reason, I'm a magnet for old stuff, I have two 1970's vintage stereos so now I have a CD player along with a turntable for them.
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I saw COLOR tv at an early age
I was about 10 years old, and the year was 1957. (I will save you the math calculations, I am 59) My dad was doing business with a cabinet maker near the Milwaukee airport. The cabinet maker's shop was in an old barn, and his home was also on the property. While my dad and the cabinet maker sat at the kitchen table I went into the cabinet makers living room where the tv was on. I was astounded to see TV in color. It was the local evening news on WTMJ NBC chanel 4. The set was probably a ctc7. It had the knobs on the side and the chanel indicator window on the front of the set. WTMJ was the 7th station in the country to receive their shipment of color broadcasting equipment from RCA. I believe the year was 1954.
I also remember watching Bonanza and Walt Disneys Wonderful World of Color in the early 1960's. On Sunday night, my brother and I would go to a neighbor's home 3 doors down, and watch on their Admiral 21 inch roundie. In my estimation, the 2 aforementioned shows on NBC did more to stimulate the purchase of color sets than anything else the television industry did. In 1965 my parents bought a 21 inch Zenith roundie. We sat it next to our 21inch B&W Philco set and only watched the Zenith color set when a color show was on, so as not to weaken the tubes in the Zenith unnecessarily. That Zenith is still sitting in my late father's bedroom in my mom's home. It has a problem in the horizontal output circuit (the plates of the horizontal output tube glow red hot) I think there is a shorted capacitor.) I have not tested the crt but I think it is probably very good as we did not watch it much in the early years. When the set developed the problem with the horizontal output circuit, my parents bought a retangular Zenith set and retired the roundie. That was in the early 70's. As a result the roundie dosen't have a lot of hours on it. The crt has the cataract issue. I am going to dig into it sooner or later and get it up and running. In 1967 I obtained a used CTC4 from a friend. It had a good 21axp22. I recaped the set with all new Sprague Orange Drops and did a lot of tweaking to the set. It had a beautiful picture. I watched it as my personal color tv until I got married in 1971. At that time I sold it to a friend and bought a "more modern retangular" color set that my wife wanted with a remote control so we could change chanels without getting out of bed. There isn't a day that goes by that I don't wish I still had the ctc4. (the first wife is history, and in retrospect I shoould have traded the wife and kept the ctc4) I have been looking for ctc4 for a long time but so far have not found one for sale. I recently spoke to the fellow that bought the ctc4 from me. He said he watched it for about 3 years and then sold it to a local Milwaukee tv collector. So hopefully it may still be in the Milwaukee area. If anyone knows of a Milwaukee area collector with a ctc4, have them get in touch with me. I would be curious to know if he has my old set. Well that's my story, hope you enjoyed.
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The first Raduga was reported in 1954: http://www.rw6ase.narod.ru/r/raduga/raduga_op.html Chassis: http://oldradio.qrz.ru/radios/149-app-2.gif http://oldradio.qrz.ru/radios/149-disk.gif Schematics: http://oldradio.qrz.ru/radios/149-shem-gray.gif http://oldradio.qrz.ru/radios/149-shem-bw.gif The Sovjets experimented with serial encoded color signals and color wheel in these days. The next one is from 1962, and it looks like an RCA CTC5: http://www.rw6ase.narod.ru/r/raduga/raduga_tw62.html Some hybrid sets were made in the 1960s and 1970s, perhaps I will get one of these sets in the next weeks. I already have a SECAM converter for it. Here is one of 1973 with chassis photos: http://www.rw6ase.narod.ru/r/raduga/raduga703_704.html And this one is made in 1986: http://www.rw6ase.narod.ru/r/raduga/raduga61tc342d.html The one which I knew from my visits in East Germany was the Радуга 5. But I did not find a photo of it yet. The Радуга 5 was so faulty that tv servicemen were adviced not to repair them. Kind regards, Eckhard Last edited by yagosaga; 09-29-2007 at 12:18 PM. Reason: Link to chassis and schematics added.
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Did the russians had color TV in 1954? They got color in the same year as the USA?
No doubt the communist regime failed ... producing consumer goods like those. That color TV from 1954 is so ugly-looking ( while the RCA CT-100 is very beautiful ), presenting such a small picture ... not to mention that it was a dangerous set! And that color TV from 1986 (!) ... gee, it looks like a clone of the cheap black-and-white sets that were sold by millions here in Brazil during the 1970's! In 1986 no B/W set here in Brazil looked like that TV, let alone color sets!
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our first color set was a philco ford from 1965-66. delivered on a saturday evening and we enjoyed that roundie all night! didn t work on sunday though.horizontal output tube.generally a good set-once a year it broke down.picture was extremely good! crt weakened and a new sylvania d-16 was purchased. this set had the best picture ever and to this day still operates without a service issue. okay,i did do some adjustments and cleaned the tuner a couple times. picture is still very good. i think this is the best ever made or any old zenith. early xl 100s are also very good reliable sets. i currently have a 27 toshiba that is 13 years old and has played non stop in that time. it is in my sons room and he doesn t shut it off. i still like the early color picture. the reds seem more saturated and pleasing to the eye. like technocolor. as television gets bigger and better, i think some of the excitement is gone. 106 " dlp projector in hd is nice,but i think i might would rather watch a good roundie.
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First color set in my home was also a Philco Ford ( a 1978 model ), when I was just 1 year old. Our first TV was also a Philco Ford, a big, 23 inch 1974 B/W model, that my father bought one year before he got married. Since he got color when I was only 1 year old, the big B/W set became my first bedroom TV ( I am a TV addicted ever since. Blame my parents ... only difference is that in those days there were good programs to watch ).
We still kept both Philcos until sometime around 1986. I now wish I still have them.
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I remember watching Wonderful World Of Disney on my Grandparents Color Zenith Console TV in 65 or 66,when I was only 3 or 4,and thinking it was the most beautiful thing Id ever seen.My parents got a Zenith color console in 68,I think.My folks had to have a local guy who did tv repair on the side come and fix it at least once every few years,at $75 or more a pop.Ive had an RCA 27" since 89,and not one problem.
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http://www.rw6ase.narod.ru/r/raduga/raduga_r54_11.djvu For those which are able to read Cyrillic, here are some more informations and photos (see forum). Note that the words radio, television, televisor, apparat, and so on are the same in Russian: http://www.radiomuseum.ru/index2.htm http://www.tvmuseum.ru/ http://radio1.borda.ru/ Photo of an early Sovjet sets: http://foto.mail.ru/mail/rostov-servise/569/570.html - Eckhard Last edited by yagosaga; 09-30-2007 at 06:21 AM. Reason: More links added
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