1972 Magnavox Color Console
 

Next on the bench from the SC collection. Very weak crt with everything cranked all the way up I get a picture thats just bright enough to see in a lit room.
Color is decent except for all the whites burning out red from so much bias and drive.
Gotta love the smell of this burning off years of dust.

http://justsmog.com/Clay/mag1.jpg

http://justsmog.com/Clay/mag2.jpg

http://justsmog.com/Clay/mag3.jpg

I remember those. Mostly I remember the first time I worked on one. When I took the vertical output tube out, the socket stayed on the tube........pulled it right out of the PC board. :eek:

I had the same thing happen with a 21" Silvertone roundie in the early 1970s. I tried to replace the 6AW8 video output tube and, when I plugged the replacement into the socket (or tried to--the tube had a bent pin and wouldn't go in straight), the socket broke out of the board with a sickening crunch.

I think there were two of those. Hadn't noticed the carved feet on that cabinet before :)

I think the other one was solid state. Probably an early T995 chassis set.

1972 magnavox
 

hey ctc17: I'd like an e-mail address for you to use a picture of this TV in a children's book I'm working on.

I don't remember the chassis number of the first Magnavox solid state set, but it wasn't T995.
Mark," Zenithfan" had one.

Yeah, I did but the CRT was junk so I got rid of it. I don't remember the chassis either.....