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09-29-2005, 02:39 PM
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Nice set. I love mine. Gotta love the built in DirecHD tuner!
 I guess you have a later one. What's the version number on the sticker behind the jacks on the left? The later sets are JX3, JX4, or YX5 (which is what mine is). The later the better. Rumor is, they underspecked the capacitors on these sukkas (actual weight apx. 215 lbs. less optional stand), so just about every one of these is going to have some kind of breakdown eventually, which if not caught early, will take down major components like tuner card and power supply. Cuppa links to get you started fixing it: http://home.austin.rr.com/doctorjoe/index.html http://www.thomsonnetwork.com/unprot...000&dosearch=1 Parts, outside of caps and diodes, will not be easy to come by so hopefully the owners and the shop got lazy about fixing a simple problem. G'luck!
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09-29-2005, 06:25 PM
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I managed to borrow a service manual CD from a shop I occasionally do some work for, so things are looking up for the RCA. It looks like it's already had the power supply diode upgrade, so hopefully there's not too much wrong with it. As I said, I don't think anyone even tried to fix its current problem.
I had a 37" Mitsubishi computer monitor pass through my hands when I was a kid. It was abandoned at a repair shop after the estimate was refused and they gave it to be to get rid of it. It turned out to only have a bad vertical IC, but they missed it becuase it blanked the picture to protect the CRT. I forget what I sold it for, but it was fun to play with while I had it. I once saw a 40" Mitsubishi TV at that same shop where I got the RCA, but they had broken the CRT neck.
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09-29-2005, 06:59 PM
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09-29-2005, 10:59 PM
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I know Mitsubishi and Sony both made 40" 4:3 CRTs for the consumer market.
Does anyone know for sure if the 43" Sony monitor was 43" visible, or just 43" overall CRT size? If it was the CRT size, that would mean it was only about 40" visible like the Mitsubishi of the time. My original point that a 38" 16:9 CRT is wider than a 40" 4:3 CRT is still true. It's almost as wide as a 43" 4:3 CRT would be.
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09-30-2005, 09:17 PM
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Don't forget, though, that the vertical height of the 38" picture is only the equivalent of a 32" tube.
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09-30-2005, 09:40 PM
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Is this the DuMont?
Gorgeous old lady, isn't she?
Guaranteed to make strong men weep (when they tried to move it) and ladies swoon (as they thought about all that acreage to dust). When men were men, and TVs smelled when they started up. Which was a couple of minutes after you turned it on. Ahhh, yes. Those WERE the days.
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10-02-2005, 10:35 AM
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I got the massive RCA going. It had a shorted -12v rectifier diode in one of its many power supplies. Surprisingly, the power supply didn't shut down, it just went to about half its rated output voltages. The set looks pretty good even before doing any adjustment. You'd think someone would have at least looked at it before throwing it out.
I was able to borrow the RCA service manual CD. It would have taken a lot longer without it. Let me know if anyone needs the service manuals to a CTC-175 to CTC-211.
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10-02-2005, 02:47 PM
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@Giulio Maiocco: I love your old Italian tv; it's American style but with Italian influnces. The set haves an wired remote control?
The biggest B & W Romanian Made CRT's had 65 cm (25.5"). "Telecolor" had 56 cm (aprox 22") picture tubes. The colour with the biggest diagonale Made in Romania, was a member of the "Cromatic" sets family-it had an 72 cm (28") screen. I the videoclip of the play "I wanna sex you up" played by the band Color me badd it's a set with big diagonale and perfect plate screen. What set is that?
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10-07-2005, 10:32 PM
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Looking for anyone that knows about a Kay Halbert TV ? They made TV's in the mid 50's in Culver City California. 27 Inch Picture , no knobs on the front , remote control on a 25 Ft cord with on off ,volume, & channel control.Same time Muntz had 27 inch screen.
Any info would be great. Last edited by G.B.; 10-10-2005 at 11:29 AM.
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10-09-2005, 09:34 AM
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Hi Telecolor 3007,
I'm happy you like my TV. Yes, the 27" set does have a wire remote control that controls volume, tone, brightness and contrast. I's a metal semi-cilinder that is relatively heavy. At the moment I can't shot more photos because it is stored in a friend's garage behind a ton of guitar loudspeaker cabinets, but if you are interested, just PM a message and when the caos is a little better than now, I will send you some more photos. I have also a strange TV projector as well and it is working, but I could take some photos of it very easily. Thank you Giulio Maiocco
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10-25-2005, 12:42 AM
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I had one of the Sony KV-3000s... That was the 30" Tamo Ash console mentioned earlier in this thread. It was originally $10,000, but I got mine from a local retailer in '86 for much less because they couldnt' ever sell it. The chassis was a commercial CVM-3000, with a very complicated tuner board coupled to it. It also had remote motorized tambor doors. Very rare, and I have only heard of 4 sets including (formerly) mine.
The 43" PVM-4300u was a publicity stunt, and all of them were recalled by Sony for destruction according to a Sony official with whom I talked after the display model disappeared out of the Circuit City in West Los Angeles after several years. Amazingly, 3 have turned up in private hands. There are 2 of them here all tied up in probate in Orange County, and a 3rd one that showed up on eBay several months ago Back East. I wouldn't want to be in the room if one of those imploded!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Charles
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10-25-2005, 12:36 PM
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It's an actual 43" viewable... CRT is 45" M108KEG10X. I called Andrews once for fun to ask about that CRT, and it was special order for $23,000.00. No surprise since the SD-59 (for 5" KV-5000 thru 5300) is now over $750. In looking in the manual, that set weighs 440 lbs and draws 400 watts! Let's put a couple PVM-4300s around the house as extra TVs :banana2:
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