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My first (non-)repair was on an 18"/19" B&W portable that I bought for $5 at a thrift store and brought home on the bus and then the El train in Chicago. It had poor vertical linearity that could not be adjusted better, so I bought a vertical output tube that made it worse. (Of course, now I know it just needed a 50-cent electrolytic capacitor.)
My first successful repair was in another 19" B&W set that was completely dead in our closet at home. I read one of those "TV Symptoms" books and tested all the tubes at the hardware store. One did not light up, and I had read what a "series string" was. A replacement tube brought it back to life, and I was hooked! I am still in the electronics business now, 35 years later, and I would not want to be in any other industry.
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Chris
Quote from another forum: "(Antique TV collecting) always seemed to me to be a fringe hobby that only weirdos did."
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