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*zenithfan1* · #16 11-30-2011, 02:37 PM

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Yepper and still have the remote stashed there. Prob should remove the batteries while I am thinking of it.

years ago it would make a spark sound, and the pic would flicker, back then I was not really into fixing TV's, but IIRC I vaccumed around the fly and spayed some silcone lube on it (my thinking was to seal up any areas that may have a break down in the HV area), Worked, has not recurred. Last tine I watched it I noticed the lin was off a bit, maybe an adj or perhaps a cap starting to go.

Yep, could be a cap. Mitsubishi sets from the 80's and 90's were awesome but they had a lot of crappy 'lytics in them.

Adam · #17 11-30-2011, 04:11 PM

I bought an RCA ctc-168 in 1992. But it was last year's display model, so it was discounted. That was my main set 92-00. It was still working good when I sold it in '05. Now, since nobody makes anything I even sort of like anymore, it looks like that'll be the only set I ever buy new.

Sandy G · #18 11-30-2011, 04:41 PM

I guess the 1st one I bought new was an '84-85 Sony 25" XBR..Their TOTL. It was STEREO, & had those wonky square APM speakers... Big woo. It died less than 10 yrs later.

ggregg · #19 11-30-2011, 05:04 PM

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I'd say that's a decent trade!

Still have the car?

No but I wish I did. I did find it a few years back. The guy I sold it to had blown the motor (318, hth you do that is beyond me) shortly after buying from me and parked it in a shed. Wanted 2K for it. I didn't want it back that bad. It was redoable but not without a bucket of cash which I didn't have.

AUdubon5425 · #20 11-30-2011, 05:09 PM

Only TV I bought new was a 5" Chinese B&W job in 2003. Bought it simply for the novelty of buying a new TV for $15.

In 2007 a cat knocked it off a four-drawer file cabinet, and that was the end of that.

RobtWB · #21 11-30-2011, 05:12 PM

The first new set I purchased, and the first television I ever purchased, was a mid 80's 13" TMK color set. Knob tuned, silver and black. A really nice looking set for a cheap import. It lasted maybe a year or so before the vertical deflection collapsed to about 1". Took it to a repair shop and the repair lasted no time really. It was junked. Sure wish I had it back now purely for nostalgia. I knew nothing of televisions back then.

Still have #2 set purchased new. 1991 Panasonic 1942R tabletop set. Still looks and works as new, although it only gets limited playing time nowadays. Sure wish the remote phantom hadn't stolen the original remote to this set.

wa2ise · #22 11-30-2011, 07:00 PM

My first brand new TV was an RCA CTC101 with a comb filter, and the infamous flyback that would blow up.

It died when the flyback did blow up. I thought it already had the newer replacement version in it...

It did have a great picture, and had fake stereo.

***Kamakiri*** · #23 11-30-2011, 07:04 PM

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What model? I recently picked up a free Mega Watchman, model FD-500, with the original manual. Works, but has issues. :3

Sounds like the same one. I'd have to dig it out of a box to be sure.....

magnasonic66 · #24 11-30-2011, 07:20 PM

My first NIB (and last) tv is a 13" Zenith made in June '87, with Space Command, and a cube shaped wood finished plastic cabinet. I played it overnight for years, I can't stand sleeping without one on. The picture started dimming after a while when turned on, and I replaced it with a used 19" stereo Space Command with all the trimming. I still have both of them, and when I found a beautiful clone of the little set in Goodwill one day for $15, I bought it quickly. Since then, I've bought three of the little electronic tuned 9" Zeniths, two are in Almond finish, one is in Strawberry. One almond one is my daily driver, hooked up to a Comcast box with a remote for all of the channels in my package. I also just got a Casio with a two inch screen, but it doesn't work. But for $2 I didn't care.

Electronic M · #25 11-30-2011, 07:26 PM

I've never bought a new TV, four times my folks bought new sets while I've lived with them. Those sets were a early 90's Zenith, an older RCA floor model from Radio shack to fit a built in cabinet in our house which we were trying to sell back in 03', and a CineVision LCD portable from Radio Shack back a few months before hurricane katrina, there was also a 14" Daewoo around that time that I almost for got. The Zenith was put at the curb when we got the RCA. It was begining to develop mild intermitant red-green background change. We put it out with a "works" sign on it one day between garbage days when the neighbors were having work done, and we believe that one of the workmen saved it.

Some time between when I was 5 and 9 years old I got a VCR for my birthday. The one I unwraped ate the first tape that was put in (that tape was from the public library). After that stunt the first VCR was returned to the old Service Merchandise store and a monophonic Sharp with SQPB was purchased. That sharp has never eaten a tape, and worked well the last time I ran it. I stopped using it regularly over 4 years ago as I wanted stereo sound, and later S-VHS recording for timeshifting.

truetone36 · #26 11-30-2011, 07:29 PM

I've never bought a new TV set, but I do have a 15" Zenith B/W tabletop set that my grandmother bought new more than 35 years ago. It still works as good now as when it was first taken out of the box.

YamahaFreak · #27 11-30-2011, 09:16 PM

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Originally Posted by ggregg

No but I wish I did. I did find it a few years back. The guy I sold it to had blown the motor (318, hth you do that is beyond me) shortly after buying from me and parked it in a shed. Wanted 2K for it. I didn't want it back that bad. It was redoable but not without a bucket of cash which I didn't have.

That's a sad outcome. D:

YamahaFreak · #28 11-30-2011, 09:21 PM

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Originally Posted by Kamakiri

Sounds like the same one. I'd have to dig it out of a box to be sure.....

My unit is square in cross section, with an upward-firing speaker on top. The CRT is in the bottom half, on a slight upward angle. Power button is a round pushbutton on top, next to the speaker.

Some of the controls (tuning, tone) seem to have become disconnected from the rest of the internals and don't work. I had to laugh, because the radio is semi-permanently tuned to my local jazz station.

compu_85 · #29 11-30-2011, 09:25 PM

My first new to me set was an Emerson 13". I saved for what seemed like forever to get it, I recall it being around $140 when I got it in the late 90s. Never had a problem it it, and it always had a good picture.

Mom gave it away in a TV recycling drive last month

YamahaFreak · #30 11-30-2011, 09:27 PM

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Originally Posted by compu_85

My first new to me set was an Emerson 13". I saved for what seemed like forever to get it, I recall it being around $140 when I got it in the late 90s. Never had a problem it it, and it always had a good picture.

Mom gave it away in a TV recycling drive last month

That stinks. D: I try to avoid e-recycling events at all costs, as they never let you take stuff away, and most stuff is scrapped out and destroyed...