New Project Tele-Tone TV 149

[old_coot88]

Originally Posted by skylinesys

Greetings everyone, My first post here, and my first vintage TV project. I picked up an Tele-Tone TV 149 on eBay. It's in pretty rough shape, but after a good refinishing it should look awesome. I will provide a link to some photos.

My plan is to refinish first then re-stuff the can caps and then move on to doing the re-cap. This will be my first time doing any of this so hopefully I can pull it off and have it still work and look like a TV in the end ;-)

When it comes time to apply power, can I simply set a VCR or RF Converter to Channel 3 and TV to the same and expect that to work? In the end a DVD player playing on it would be ideal. Is that possible?

Like I said this all new to me, so if anyone has any guidance that would be greatly appreciated. I have no ideal how to check over the picture tube or test it, how to test tubes without a tube test and so on. I don't have many tools.

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Not intending to be a fuddyduddy or to dampen your zeal, but this is not an ideal project for a beginner.
For one, it's an electrostatic-deflection set. it predates the elecromagnetic-deflection scheme which became standard from the late 1940s on. It's not representative of the vast majority of vintage TVs still out there.
Even if you should get this set working (which would be a challenge for a seasoned techie), you would still lack any experience on the standard (magnetic-deflection) sets.
For instance, this set does not use a deflection yoke or a "flyback" transformer (it uses a stand-alone RF supply for high voltage).

Were I you (which I ain't), and considering the pristine condition of the chassis, I would sell it to someone who restores and/or collects electrostatic sets. There are some guys on here who do so. Then I would shop for a nice standard (EM-deflection) set to cut teeth on.

OR better yet, an AA5 radio, as Electronic M mentioned earlier.