Here is yet another one of the TV's from SC - A '73 Teledyne 14" hybrid color portable in a metal case that was made in Japan. It works; but, has some sort of RF interference, has touchy vertical sync, and needs some color set-up and probably some new caps. I really don't know who actually built this set. The tubes are NEC branded; so, I'm going to guess that it was built by NEC or, possibly, Mitsubishi. Doesn't really look like a Panasonic chassis.

Actually, we had a Truetone color portable that used this same chassis. It was in a black metal cabinet with a different control layout. That one, as well, always had some sort of vertical problem. Around '87, it was replaced by a new 13" Emerson and my Dad tried to have the old set fixed; but, no one would touch it b/c it was a tube set. When the last shop turned him down, he told them to throw it away because he was tired of lugging it around.

Oh, I know I said this was a portable set; but, I meant to call it a luggable set.

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The one like this I got does nothing at all. Dead. Thats as far as I got with it.

I just cant get into the Japan sets. Working on them has a totally different feel. I wonder if the multi state consoles are Japan built. I need to drag one out and dig into it.

I can tell you that the '72 Packard-Bell 23V hybrid color console that I brought back claims to have been built in LA and the chassis looks American. The other 3 that I brought home were rebadged. This Japanese built color set, the 15" GE built B&W, and the 15" Japanese built B&W.

I was thinking about those two 9" B&W's in the colored plastic case that I think you took home. Just from the outside, I'd say those are Sanyo built sets.

I guess by that time, the smaller sets were being built by whoever they could find that would build them the cheapest.

This one looks like a Hitachi to me.

Charles

That's a neat looking set, I've never seen one before.

That interference looks like RFI from an electronic ballast. My aquarium light causes a pattern just like that.

John

Yeah agreed, supply transformer ground possibly? How about tuner shielding and ground?

I like this one . Never saw one either.
What's the deal with Teledyne anyway? Werent they the ones who came out with the "water-pik"? :scratch2:

Teledyne was one of those industrial conglomerates in the 1970's that produced a wide variety of goods, like, White Consolidated Industries (now Electrolux), AMF -(Remember AMF Harley-Davidson??:D), and Borg Warner, who all produced industrial and consumer good across a wide spectrum of lines. Teledyne owned the venerable Packard-Bell name for a while and perhaps some of the manufacturing. We used to have a Teledyne Service Company here in the Seattle area. They were good for fixing some of the obscure Japan sets of the era.

Walt Anderson

With a bit of luck, that staticy picture will be caused by something as easy as a bad ground to a shield. Good luck!