[veg-o-matic]

Well, so it's one step forward, one step back.

The good news is that I did the grayscale adjustment last night and got some pretty good color! The convergence still sucks, but I did the static conv. and at least it improved a little bit. Oh, and it worked just fine with the bias switch at 1 instead of 3.

The bad news is that I no longer have any sound at all. Dunno what happened--I had sound when I turned it on the other night. Now I don't even get static.

Other bad news is that I still can't receive VHF channels at all. UHF works, so what the heck?

I don't think this set got much use. It looks like all the original Sears tubes are in it (though there are a couple I couldn't see easily.) The picture tube has a date sticker of April (I think) 1970, which pretty much answers my question of when it was made.

Here are a couple of pictures I took last night. They're not great, but they're a lot better than when I first fired it up!

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