Got another Sears badged Japanese tube color set

[Electronic M]

Earlier today I bought a 19" Japanese Sears Color TV/radio set form Wiscojim.

The CRT had a very weak green gun (my other Jap set had the same issue too ), but some rejuvenation brought it in to the good range and close enough (a bit outside but it probably won't get better with more jolts) to the color tracking rectangle that it will probably make a decent picture.





I gave it a variac power up, and results are mixed. I've got hum free audio hiss (no reception, though), the horizontal osc. whines enough for me to know it works, and I hear what I believe is the HV coming up, but the CRT is not lighting. The AM portion of the radio works well but FM is near silent, and the volume pot was so dirty that it was killing audio.

Either there is not as much HV as it sounds like, the CRT bias is bad, or perhaps I forgot to put the CRT socket back on after testing.....It appears to be a series string set so if the latter is the case either there are two strings, or the CRT has a filament transformer.

I did not have time to thoroughly look it over with the back off, but if the caps in it are any indication of maker I'd guess it is a Sanyo.

It is really odd to see a color set with what appears to be the same style single shaft UHF/VHF tuner as some little 9" monochrome portables I have, and a builtin transistor AM/FM radio. Jim said it may be a Hotel set, and I would not be surprised if it was.

Tomorrow I'm going to see if I can get it going.