Predicta Holiday restoration

[Eric H]

And what's the first thing we see? Mr Death!

Maybe you should have gone ahead and replaced all the sockets!

[bandersen]

Originally Posted by Eric H

And what's the first thing we see? Mr Death!

Maybe you should have gone ahead and replaced all the sockets!

LOL - I hadn't noticed that when I snapped the pic.

I swear all these 9-pin sockets looked fine when I inspected them. I'll be pulling the PCB back out and replacing them. Better order up some more for my other sets too

[cwmoser]

Originally Posted by bandersen

LOL - I hadn't noticed that when I snapped the pic.

I swear all these 9-pin sockets looked fine when I inspected them. I'll be pulling the PCB back out and replacing them. Better order up some more for my other sets too

Hey Bob, I'm collecting knowledge on these old Predicta's
because they seem to catch my eye. Can you post a
picture of a new tube socket and tell who can supply them?
If I find a Predicta, might as well replace all the tube sockets
with the recapping.

Thanks

Carl

[IsthmusTV]

Bravo!! It looks like all your excellent work replacing the "K" networks really paid off. Congrats!

-Clark

[bandersen]

Originally Posted by cwmoser

Hey Bob, I'm collecting knowledge on these old Predicta's because they seem to catch my eye. Can you post a
picture of a new tube socket and tell who can supply them?
If I find a Predicta, might as well replace all the tube sockets
with the recapping.

Thanks

Carl

They're identical to the originals.

Check out these two earlier posts in this thread.
http://www.videokarma.org/showpost.p...3&postcount=28

http://www.videokarma.org/showpost.p...1&postcount=32


There are also some white ceramic ones available like these guys that might hold up better: http://www.ebay.com/itm/10-ceramic-9...-/320962006659

The central ground post doesn't go through to the PCB though. Not sure if that matters.

Originally Posted by IsthmusTV

Bravo!! It looks like all your excellent work replacing the "K" networks really paid off. Congrats!

-Clark

Thanks! Now I'll be forever curious if these networks are working as well as the originals would have

[marty59]

I've not done anything with the couplates in my Predicta but I sure like how yours turned out. I could imagine my luck could change at some point....

Once you know everything's fine I do like the heatshrink method to protect/cover 'em with.