Congrats! Glad to see that you got that set. What was wrong with it?

I read in an old newsgroup post somewhere (found thru Google's archives) that one particular person was pretty much berating the Heathkit transistor color TV's as having "an absolutely miserable picture, and was unreliable." Someone else popped off about how hard they were to align (or even get close). Well, you know what they say about opinions and belly buttons.....

Another person related a story of a Heath engineer having told him the tube sets were superior because Heath "stole" IF-strip designs from communications receivers. Who knew?

Anyway, one thing I am pretty sure is true is that these sets do sometimes exhibit power supply problems. There's also a diode trio that's prone to pop too. They used a fairly common RCA tube so that shouldn't be much of a problem.

The 2001 set was the first to use a direct access pushbutton tuner (AFAIK) and is supposedly better than the previous up and down buttons.

Found this fellow Alex Crinzi [email protected] on an old NG, don't know anything about him or if his addy is even valid any longer, but he said he has many parts for Heath TV's

Please let us know how it works out!

Anthony