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Originally Posted by fsjonsey
Boost cap was the ticket! The Horizontal was actually a bit too wide, a new .1uf 1KV orange drop brought the width right back into spec. All other voltages were spot on. Thank you!
This is a really low hours set, but it was laid up in storage for close to 30 years in a college theater prop room. I rescued it in 2009 and never used it much until I got my agile modulator/NTSC transmitter set up.
And that's exactly where it was. This is a pretty late set. Fake wood late 70's styling, a click stop UHF tuner, and a 1976 date code. The CRT tests super strong and all the Compactrons are original GE. It has more of a black matrix looking CRT face than the older Portacolor's I've seen.
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I have three tube Porta-Colors, a 1973, a 1975 and a 1977. The 1973 has the low focus voltage CRT and the two later ones have the high voltage focus CRT's.
The newest one seems to have the best picture. I went through all the tubes and found a few really weak ones in the older two sets.
They seem to be the Rodney Dangerfield of the portable color sets, but are an important part of the electronics history.
