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On the rare occasion that a Fada set (most always a radio) came into the shop, one of us goofballs would quip "here's da fada. Where is da mudda?"
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That's a great story, thanks for sharing!
Well it looks like there are few Fada TV's in captivity.
I just recently picked up a 940, it was supposed to be a working set and the seller (who really didn't know much about electrical condition of the set) offered to plug it in and turn it on for me but I said no thanks I'd rather not risk it.
Last night I powered it up for the first time after I tested the crt (12LP4) which tested good, and did an inspection of the chassis, flyback, electrolytics, looked for burned resistors, wire etc...
I slowly powered it up in steps monitoring it for any signs of trouble, every thing looked good and after applying full power it had a snowy picture and sound. I was feeling very good because it passed the smoke test.
I put on a test video and my 940 had big deep bass sound out of the 10" speaker and after some adjustment I got a fair picture, I watched a few old TV shows and it ran fine so I'm very happy with the set.
But that's just a starting place as it will need many of the old caps and resistors and some weak tubes to be replaced before it will be a reliable set.
Here's mine.
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