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Originally Posted by Spinning Head
Picked up these older Sharp set at an estate sale a couple of weeks ago. There was some sort of connection problem with the line cord interlock, as there was infinite resistance at the plug end. But after removing the back and taking the cord off of the back and plugging directly into the chassis, the problem went away. Powered it up slow with a variac and eventually got to full line voltage with no major issues. Fairly clean set, I don't think it got a lot of use. I was concerned that it would use a lot of strange Japanese tubes, but they all look common for a series string set; 5GH8A, etc.
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Those sets were sold under the names, Wards Airline, Midland, Truetone and even Motorola.
All the circuits were tube based. The CRT was a low focus voltage type. They always seemed to have the blue gun on the bottom. The original caps seemed to be trouble prone.
IIRC, it was the first color set sold for under $200, in late 1967.
