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Originally Posted by MRX37
Right. I'm going to run it for a few minutes. It's connected to my power strip so if it starts doing anything funny I can cut the power instantly.
Gonna go hook my DTV box to it.
Edit: Well, it works better then I expected a 50 year old TV that I found on a curb to work. Vertical hold knob is either missing or broken.
And the camera in this phone is so cheap that green horizontal lines randomly appear in some of the pictures it takes. 
Knobs need deoxit badly. Sound is fine, except the audio gets randomly scratchy... again, probably due to dirty knobs, and I need to see what's going on with the vertical control. Other then that it works.
So yeah... 50 year old TV. Likely hasn't been used in at least 20 years. Sitting on a curb, and it's 90% working.
Edit 2: I'm an idiot. The vertical hold is on the front. the missing knob on the back, well I'm not sure if theres supposed to be a knob there or not.
I'm going to open it up, apply deoxit to the knobs, let it sit a bit, then I'll try it again. |
The CRT looks really bright. Most of those sets needed a CRT, 40 years ago.
A lot of the Motorola sets used National Video CRTs and were rather short lived. That set might have a different sourced tube.
BTW, there was never a knob on the horiz hold shaft. You seldom had to reset them.
