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08-09-2006, 03:09 AM
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Back in the "dumbest thing you ever did" thread I posted this
about a zapping... But in keeping with the original spirit of the thread, I looked for a little cartoon I saw put up as a "please stand by" test pattern when technical difficulties interrupted tv programming (on WGN??) years ago, it showed a guy prying into the top of an old (big) tv camera with a series of parts arcing ballistically in the air away from the camera, caps, resistors, tubes and whatnot. I always got a chuckle out of seeing it... But I never found it.....
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08-09-2006, 03:29 PM
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Back in around 1971 I and a friend was trying to repair an RCA CTC19 set. After replacing a width or some such coil in the horizontal, we got it going except for no color. ANyway, while poling around I noticed that the horizontal output tube plate cap looked to be falling off, and reached to push it back down. You can guess what the result of that was.
SOmewhere in the IF I found a transformer with about 70 volts across its primary. Which might explain the loss of color, but for some reason we didn't follow up on this. Eventually the chassis got thrown out, but the cabinet is still around. Anyone need a floor console cabinet for a CTC19?
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