1979 Quasar Renovation
 

I saved this 1979 Quasar "cellar dweller" from a terrible dark damp basement about 4 years ago. You can see when I first brought it home on my YouTube channel. Just today, I took the back off, blew all the dust out, cleaned all the controls, and cleaned the cabinet. I'm going to put it into service tomorrow. The flyback sounds slightly louder than any other TV I have. Is that normal? More info tomorrow when I hook it up and see how the picture is.

Is that a Motorola made Quasar or is it a Panasonic made Quasar?

It's a Matsushita made TV, but it was assembled in Franklin Park, IL. The tube was made in USA.

Man, that thing's cool. I saw the power-up video a while back.

There are probably quite a few of these still floating around. They're better at hiding than consoles.

I'm so glad you like it! I'll have a video of it playing tonight.

That was Franklin Park, IL. The plant was turned in to condominiums.
Those Quasar sets of that era were really bullet proof. :thmbsp:

Interesting that a Japanese made set would be built here in America with American made parts... :scratch2:

I'm guessing this was shortly after Motorola folded?

And is this a VHF only set or does it do UHF as well? because I only see one knob on that set instead of the usual two that most UHF/VHF TVs have.

I'm guessing final assembly was done in the US, and that some Japanese TV manufacturers avoided shipping CRTs that far because they're so heavy and fragile. I had a Hitachi console with a RCA-supplied CRT.

What I meant was that the electronics are Japanese, but the Tube is American and it was assembled in Illinois. Yes, it is a VHF/UHF, it has one knob for both. It has 2-13, and for UHF, it has a varactor tuner.

Motorola never really folded. They just sold off the lesser profitable divisions.
Matsushita was looking for a plant to final assemble products, to avoid high tariffs. They were one of the firms charged with "dumping", that is selling products for less money than it costs to build them, to gain market share.
The set shown is a higher priced model with the 18 position varactor tuner with 6 UHF presets.

Set has Panasonic chassis. Cabinet probably US. CRT
could be anything, need the EIA code. They were good
sets.
It has UHF. All US sold sets HAD to have UHF after March 1964.
Used a one knob selector with presets for UHF. Has a
varactor tuner.

There are two common lytic failures about this time.
One was the 4.7 mfd in the 200V supply. They go on
almost every brand set from the late 70's on. Its usually
near the FBT. Causes jail bars, shading, too brite pix,
poor pix.
The other is a 4.7 in the power supply area. Its the filter for
the negative supply to the tuner for band switching.
Causes hum bars on LOW channels only (2-6) & a messy pix.

73 Zeno:smoke:

You beat me to the answer!
I never took typing, as at the time, an electrician generally didn't need to. :boring:

eia-312.

Thanks for the info. Now I know what to look for if this set has picture issues.

So then Motorola basically got out of the Radio and TV manufacturing business and went into cellphones instead because they thought that radios and TVs weren't profitable enough for them but yet they thought cellphones would be more profitable?! :scratch2: