Saved two from destruction today

[Randy Bassham]

Your Magnavox is either a T952 or T971 chassis, I tend to think it's a 971 since it has the Horizontal output tube mounted above the PCB. I don't want to rain on your find but don't expect much out of that set. I was working for a Magnavox dealer when they came out and the failure rate of the ones we sold was 100% before they got out of warantee, on top of being unreliable they didn't produce much of a picture. The early ones burned up the pcb under the horizontal output and would lose drive to the tube, the tube would overheat and melt a big spot on the plastic back. If that set still has it's handle I wouldn't trust it, the set is heavy and I've had the handle break when I picked it up. I've got the Magnavox manuals for it if you're going to tackle it. I've got to get busy and make some copies of manuals I've promised already.