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She contacted me yesterday, and said it worked a year ago when put in the garage. So, i figured i'll play this smart and bring my extension cords, and test it out there, even for free, would save me the trouble of lugging this thing home if it was doa.

well, u know what they say, man makes plans and god laughs. I show up, no power cord.

Pruneface now proceeds to lecture me on how two grown men struggled to move this thing, and i would find out quickly why. This thing is by a country mile the heaviest combo i have ever moved. I got the front a couple inches leaning into the back end of the truck, and then pulled the back end in a dead lift.


After i get the truck loaded, i asked to use their bathroom. As I'm leaving i ask the older one, "so, this worked a year ago?" she get's all irritated, and then it becomes, don't know if it worked when it was put in the garage, and it;s been at least five years it's been in the garage.

The back shows corrosion, this may have been in the garage since reagan was in the white house.


I plugged it into a extension cord in my driveway, and was met with air raid siren volume humming. I mean, like LOUD. No raster.

And no i am not pissed, nor hostile, just very dissappointed.

This is going on the back burner for awhile.

btw, info, model, history, etc would be helpful. Is a remote set, she was missing the remote. From the cabinet, looks high end

Well, loud hum is most likely the caps, possibly rectifier diodes, not a hard fix. You are lucky you have the room to store it, the ability to move it, the time to go after them, and the willingness to learn about these things and fix them yourself. Good work.

Nice looking set!

Well, loud hum is most likely the caps, possibly rectifier diodes, not a hard fix. You are lucky you have the room to store it, the ability to move it, the time to go after them, and the willingness to learn about these things and fix them yourself. Good work.

Nice looking set!

so let me ask u something there squirrel,

assuming i don;t have the time or patience to become a tv repairman at age 47, is this a good checklist to run on this set

1) check all vacuum tubes
2) check crt
3) recap set
4) check all resistors for shorts

Well, loud hum is most likely the caps, possibly rectifier diodes, not a hard fix. You are lucky you have the room to store it, the ability to move it, the time to go after them, and the willingness to learn about these things and fix them yourself. Good work.

Nice looking set!

I made a lot of room by fixing those three project sets i had. Yeah i fixed those ******* all right.

If u need cabinets, u may want to drive to the toms river recycling center.

Well you got a damn nice stereo at the least.
A Dual turntable, Pickering V15 magnetic cartridge .
Not at all a "top of the low end" system here.
More like bottom of mid grade.
TV should be good too GTE's were near as good as RCA or Zenith,
I would rather work on this than an RCA.
Hows about some TV & chassis pixs ??

73 Zeno:smoke:

Nice set Joe! She DO look heavy tho. I tell you what.. you wanna know heavy? I helped a friend move one of those Zenith Porthole combo's. I truly thought I was gonna go home to Jesus after getting THAT one up the stairs. I will NEVER move one of those again.

Nice set Joe! She DO look heavy tho. I tell you what.. you wanna know heavy? I helped a friend move one of those Zenith Porthole combo's. I truly thought I was gonna go home to Jesus after getting THAT one up the stairs. I will NEVER move one of those again.

Porthole? U got to be kidding. I bench press porthole combos all day long. We laugh and make jokes about 300 lb combo's, but I'll tell u what, this thing probably is close to 300 lbs.

Jwoww lives a few blocks over (no i'm not kidding) maybe roger can come over and carry this down the stairs on his back.

Here you go... Bench press one of these :)

http://www.cedmagic.com/history/ampex-signature-v.html

jr

Here you go... Bench press one of these :)

http://www.cedmagic.com/history/ampex-signature-v.html

jr

Holy cow, now that is a combo!!!!!

Hopefully at least a few versions are tucked away from the dismantling hands of combo haters. I know a few combo haters who love to defile such a set.

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heaviest combo i ve moved was a curtis mathes monstrosity from the 60s.the one with the huge,whole wall cabinet.that thing was a nightmare.of course when i was a teenager,we moved a deep freeze from a basement to the 2nd floor,a washer filled with wet clothes,a bathtub down from the 3rd floor to the front porch,etc.always had to lift and carry heavy items.still do from time to time.rather watch though

Here is an old thread about another back-breaker (but not a combo) the 510 lb Sony 30" console:

http://www.videokarma.org/showthread.php?t=247459&highlight=kv3000

Pretty set.
jr

opened the back cover and there are acorns in it. This thing has been in a garage for a lot longer than five years.

so let me ask u something there squirrel,

assuming i don;t have the time or patience to become a tv repairman at age 47, is this a good checklist to run on this set

1) check all vacuum tubes
2) check crt
3) recap set
4) check all resistors for shorts


Becoming a tv repairman is the hobby you chose. Learning how each section of a tv, radio, or any other item works means you can skip checking items you don't need to. For example, when you said you turned it on and you immediately got a very loud hum, to me this is a power supply problem. This is the first thing to address. This could be a bad, or shorted cap, bad or shorted rectifier diodes.

Also learning what each part is likely to do when it goes bad, will allow you to look at symptoms and give you a starting point, eliminating items that can not possibly give the symptoms you have.

You are just not familiar with this stuff.... If it were a car, and it gave you trouble, you would have an idea where to go to start because of your familiarity with them.

If your stereo part is transistorized, then use this to take a look at how the rectifier circuit works.

http://www.eecs.tufts.edu/~dsculley/tutorial/diodes/diodes3.html

This video is very good:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyhzpFqXwdA

Youtube has a video for everything, and you could learn quite a bit from this.

The thing with vintage electronics is there is almost always more than one problem that needs to be fixed. The best thing to do is fix the first obvious problem and then move from there. The hum is likely due to bad power supply capacitors, bad rectifier diodes, or shorted output transistors in the amplifier.

The thing with vintage electronics is there is almost always more than one problem that needs to be fixed. The best thing to do is fix the first obvious problem and then move from there. The hum is likely due to bad power supply capacitors, bad rectifier diodes, or shorted output transistors in the amplifier.

3 bad tubes, and i'm not even half way done. Including the HV rectifier.

Becoming a tv repairman is the hobby you chose. Learning how each section of a tv, radio, or any other item works means you can skip checking items you don't need to. For example, when you said you turned it on and you immediately got a very loud hum, to me this is a power supply problem. This is the first thing to address. This could be a bad, or shorted cap, bad or shorted rectifier diodes.

Also learning what each part is likely to do when it goes bad, will allow you to look at symptoms and give you a starting point, eliminating items that can not possibly give the symptoms you have.

You are just not familiar with this stuff.... If it were a car, and it gave you trouble, you would have an idea where to go to start because of your familiarity with them.

If your stereo part is transistorized, then use this to take a look at how the rectifier circuit works.

http://www.eecs.tufts.edu/~dsculley/tutorial/diodes/diodes3.html

This video is very good:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyhzpFqXwdA

Youtube has a video for everything, and you could learn quite a bit from this.


and no raster? what's the first thing i should be looking at there?

Get a neon lamp tester, the simple kind with two leads used to check for presence of AC.

Then hold the lamp part only close to the HV rect tube (3A3?) cap, if you have glow, try the red anode lead to the CRT. If you get glow both places, you have a video (to the CRT guns) issue. If not, go back to the horiz output tube cap, no glow, change both it and the horizontal oscillator.

What is the chassis number a D11?, I probably have a schematic.

As for the radio, I could use half a can of contact cleaner on the pushbuttons and pots. I bet that sounds great.

Good luck, I agree these were better than RCA in those years.

Get a neon lamp tester, the simple kind with two leads used to check for presence of AC.

Then hold the lamp part only close to the HV rect tube (3A3?) cap, if you have glow, try the red anode lead to the CRT. If you get glow both places, you have a video (to the CRT guns) issue. If not, go back to the horiz output tube cap, no glow, change both it and the horizontal oscillator.

What is the chassis number a D11?, I probably have a schematic.

As for the radio, I could use half a can of contact cleaner on the pushbuttons and pots. I bet that sounds great.

Good luck, I agree these were better than RCA in those years.


Thanks for the tips dave, I'll let u know how i made out

looks like a 1970 hybird
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shango066's console nos never sold has a price tag of $699. I guess the combo would have come in close to a grand

this is the year sylvania sets started getting noticed.we saw several when mr.dixon took us to sun tv and lazarus to compare the latest sets.zeniths were still tops but sylvanias were very close almost a tie.mr dixon said it was notjing more than the crt.the circuitry wasnt near as good but sylvania produced a fine picture tube.he commented that a zenith set with a sylvania crt would be the perfrect set.we did this back 1977 when a flat chassis zenith was mated with a 25vdmp22 sylvania balck matrix crt.he took it home with him!

this is the year sylvania sets started getting noticed.we saw several when mr.dixon took us to sun tv and lazarus to compare the latest sets.zeniths were still tops but sylvanias were very close almost a tie.mr dixon said it was notjing more than the crt.the circuitry wasnt near as good but sylvania produced a fine picture tube.he commented that a zenith set with a sylvania crt would be the perfrect set.we did this back 1977 when a flat chassis zenith was mated with a 25vdmp22 sylvania balck matrix crt.he took it home with him!


or a sylvania with a rca tube, right?

U got me curious about sun tv, i did some research on them. Looks like they had a lot of luck expanding into rural areas for decades. Then it appears they went public, expanded rapidly and then went bankrupt. Sad story for a more than 50 yo company

this is the year sylvania sets started getting noticed.we saw several when mr.dixon took us to sun tv and lazarus to compare the latest sets.zeniths were still tops but sylvanias were very close almost a tie.mr dixon said it was notjing more than the crt.the circuitry wasnt near as good but sylvania produced a fine picture tube.he commented that a zenith set with a sylvania crt would be the perfrect set.we did this back 1977 when a flat chassis zenith was mated with a 25vdmp22 sylvania balck matrix crt.he took it home with him!

ron how did sylvania compare with price and reliability? Bet u didn't see to many of their combos did u?

GTE had such notoriously bad phone service, at least around here, I wonder how many sales Sylvania lost because of it.

sylvanias were always moderately priced.usually 20-25 percent less than a good rca or zenith.from the hybrids up to the last delta guns and early inline consoles,they were pretty good sets.the weakest link was the 25vdmp22 crt.it produced the finest picture but its life was short.however,once sent to companys like vdc,these picture tubes lived on for years.gte phone service was actually ok until the mid 80s.got terrible after that.here in columbus,a 70s era zenith or rca can be found occasionally.a sylvania? out of the question.of the thousands sold here by their largest distributor,none survived.havent seen but one set in the last two years.that one was a combo