Some interesting "foreign" sets.

[AndrewM]

I have recently acquired three TV's that are now very hard to find in Australia.

The first is an Australian Healing 22" color TV that used an imported Decca 33 chassis sourced from Great Britain. I have been trying to track down one of these sets for a while now as I believe that it is the only color TV on the Australian market that uses a hybrid chassis. The set was made in 1975 for the introduction of color TV to Australia.
This chassis was quite popular at the time as it was one of the few imported chassis that tolerated the Australian conditions and was reasonably reliable. It was also sold under its original Decca brand.
The set is missing its back and is not in very good condition but it is 95% complete. Hopefully I will be able to get it working without too much work.

The second set is a mid seventies german Korting-Transmare model 56 696.
It is an 18" set that was sold here for a short time. This set has an adjustment for just about everything including a control on the front panel for tint. This is a PAL set so it is unusual to see it.
Again the back is missing and the set is in poor condition with corrosion on a lot of the high wattage resistors. I think it will need a lot of work before it is operational.
If any of our European members has any information about the Korting, I would be interested to hear of it as these were not a common set even when new.

Last of all is an Australian designed B&W Thorn 17" set. This is an early to mid seventies hybrid chassis that was once very common in a lot of different case styles. Apart from a missing tuner valve (tube) the set appears complete. It will probably require some capacitor replacements despite its relative youth as the epoxy resin moulded caps are started to crack as the resin ages.