1962 RCA B&W Portable
 

The last time I was at Danny's, I showed interest in getting a 60's B&W portable. All this TV needed was one capacitor, and it works fine. I'll clean it up just as soon as I get a chance. I haven't even cleaned up the other two I was so tired yesterday. And today is Mother's Day, so I might not get home until late tonight.

I finally got a chance to plug in this little set. I had to afro-engineer a balun since I didn't have to right one, but it worked. I used Invisible Glass (great stuff, way better than Windex) on the CRT lens, and it shined up very nicely. This set has a very crisp, sharp picture.

That's exactly the same TV I had in my house as a young boy. The UHF control was on the lower right side panel.
I once knocked it over as it sat on its wheeled wire stand onto the front of the CRT as it was playing. :yikes: My mom just came in and picked it back up and it kept on playing.
My dad replaced the pull-on volume control with a standard one very soon after we got it.

I FINALLY got an opportunity to clean this TV up. Out of the four TV's I got, this was definitely the easiest. I cleaned all the tubes and tube sockets with Dawn and Deoxit respectively. One tube, the 6BZ6 was really stuck, but I got it out. I cleaned the plastic cabinet, and will give it the Novus treatment soon. This TV is in exceptional condition, despite being a little dusty.

The tube can't be a 6BZ6, as the set is a series string. It should be a 4BZ6 or so. :scratch2:

Oops, I must've forgot. I do that a lot. I got a video of three of the four TV's I got on my YT channel.

I recently got one of these RCAs too. I was going to post about it after I got it working. It's interesting that yours doesn't show the channel numbers through the window on the front of the set but instead has it on the knob. I have two of these RCAs and neither of them are like that. The picture on yours looks good...

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The window on top is for the channel number and the circular hole below it is for the remote sensor. Here's a pic of my remote set which shows both.

That's a pretty neat little set, Adam. Somebody must have been an awful cheapskate back in the day to have bought my set. B&W, VHF only, no remote!

Well, I've been bragging on this set for being in such good shape, but now it's having a problem. The horizontal deflection is insufficient on the right side. Weak tube? Drifting cap? I'd like to get this straightened out before May 17th, as I am taking this set to my history class in school so those 21st century kids can see what a real TV is.

H output tube or drive may be weak. Also bear in mind that most all tube sets lack B+ regulation...Or to put it simply if you have 125V from the outlets where you are and good over-scan, if you take it to a place that has say 118V from the outlets you will probably have noticeable under-scan (perhaps on all sides) like your complaining about on the right side of your picture.

My line voltage was actually 118 on the dot. I checked. If I run the window A/C or the space heater, it gets down to 105. I don't think I have this set's horizontal output tube in my tube box, but I'll check.

Have you played with the centering rings?

No. I'll take it apart tomorrow and see if I have that horizontal output tube. I know I don't have the HV rectifier - I already checked because it has a loose base.