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Well I picked it up and its a......... Sears all channel made by Toshiba. I had to buy 4 small portables total but the price was right. whats really funny is he plugged them all in and ran them to show me they worked. Three were solid state and the one I wanted from the picture tubed. two of the solid state set started smelling hot and the tube one looked like the vertical and horizontal had issues. just a bunch of lines going back and forth while at an angle at the same time and it made a rapid pattern "beep noise".
I get them home and two of the modern sets start smoking on me. Thats ok I didn't want them anyways. The other modern set wouldn't pick up anything.
I open the tube set and it has a layer of dirt on the circuit board. OK fine. One can of electronics cleaner..... pull tubes and clean pins..... turn on wiggle tubes and voila... I runs it for about an hour and its fine. I will need to put atleast electro's in it as the can is bulging and it did take 5 minutes for everything to "lock" . But the old dirty technology held better then solid state. .......Oh, no dirt in modern sets, I checked ........
Last edited by radio nut; 03-25-2012 at 09:07 PM.
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