My Magnavox beauty!
 

I picked this up locally back in june for a buck! It wasn't until yesterday that I really got back into it.

The owner said it was dead. This turned out to be a heavily oxidized line selector switch. The main filters had very little ESR and checked out fine with a leakage tester. CRT tests as new. Its a magnavox CRT but I can only assume it was replaced at some time. THe emission readings are just too high to be an original!

I replaced the HV rectifier, regulator, a bunch of 6GH8s, cleaned all the pots and switches, replaced the dial lamps, set the AGC, performed a complete grayscale and convergence setup and we are golden! Cathode current is spot on and the flyback runs barely above room temperature! Filter can is nice n cool.

The last two maggies I had had awful pictures - even with a good CRT and a color alignment. This one looks awesome! Any ideas as to the year? Looks to be about 67-68. No transistors except in the UHF tuner.

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That's a very nice picture! You are lucky that the CRT is free of cataracts. I'd say that set was from the late '60's or very early '70's. What chassis is in it?

What a beauty!

GREAT set! I never see Maggies.

Cool beans Jordan!

looks better than any maggie i ve seen. beautiful picture on that one. great find!

And a beauty she is! Thats the best picture i've seen on a Maggie.
-Tony

Its a model 2C6926. I can't make out the chassis number, its been mostly rubbed off. Pretty big speaker in this one too. Great sound for a mini console.

Beautiful set you scored on man!!! Nice!

Thanks Shawn!

Glad to see you back on the board again.

Sure glad to be back!! Miss you guys

Welcome back! Any new sets lately?

Charles

That is one nice Maggie! The picture is usually soft on the Maggies, nice contrast and color! I say it's a '68

Very nice work. :thmbsp:

Snade

Wow! That brings back a lot of memories, That's a 70 model should have a T940 chassis. I delivered and serviced hundreds of those sets in the 70's while I was the outside tech for a Magnavox dealer. There were quite a few improvements to that set compared to the previous chassis version the T933.

I remember replacing a lot of 6GH8's and a few HV rectifier socket cups because of arc through, the fix was a new cup and a sheet of thick plastic insulation behind it. The filament winding for the 3CU3 would sometimes arc through to the flyback core, easy fix just pull out the old winding and replace it, can easily be done without removing the chassis from the cabinet.