Yeah.Glad to see your getting some of those sets going.They would still be rusting away in the shed if you hadn't gotten them.Fixing modern junk runs me ragged.Good job on the Motorola.I had that set sold to someone in the late 80s before I got my foot in the door of a tv shop and really started learning.At the time I was picking up junked tvs and fixing as many as I could up and sold em' to make side money.Most of them came from a tv shop long gone out of business.He gave me all the old sets that he didn't want to fool with.I was working at English's restaurant as a dishwasher and line cook and boy did I really need the tv money to pay my car payments in the wintertime.Anyway it came back for the width drawing in and out intermittently and I traded her a 19" GE EC series solid state set that I had thoroughly soldered the on board griplets.That set was one of the 1st to use a double sided board and the griplets that joined the traces on each side were a big source of intermittents.Never heard a peep from her so I must have did a good job.Started to dig into the Motorola but it ended up being put aside as more lucrative projects came along.Don't remember why most of tubes were taken out.Must have had some other set that needed tubes or something.The tube should have all the life it had in 1988 because it ain't been fired up til you worked on it.You're bringing back memories.Looks like you found the problem that I didn't fix.
A poorly soldered width coil.Didn't have much better of a picture then.But I think the tint contol worked then.Keep at it.I'm sure you'll get those sets going.By the way another shop owner in Salisbury retired a year before and I got a lot of stuff from him.He has some old tvs in his shop but someone else got the roundies and really old tvs.
09-19-2005, 12:17 PM
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