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08-14-2012, 09:50 PM
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Wow, I found it in less than 3 minutes, a record for me.
Here it is, says E2282, don't know if that's the type or what but it came out of one of those little sets, don't know he brand, possibly Rhapsody. I have a feeling they are all pretty much the same type but who knows. If you want to try it it's yours for the postage. I was surprised to see it was made in Japan, the Yoke is made in Taiwan. That is Tape you see on the face, I didn't want it to get scratched. 
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08-14-2012, 09:56 PM
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Off topic but here's one of my favorite little sets.
It's sort of a deep hot pink color. I read that Radio Shack sold these, I don't know, it doesn't say RS on it and I got it from a Canadian Seller. This set has no safety screen, just glass like any other modern set, I think that improves the appearance a lot. These seem cheap and crappy now but can you imagine getting one of these for Christmas as a kid, say around 1970? (or whenever you were ten).
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08-14-2012, 11:32 PM
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Do remember that same little pink set on ebay a couple months ago. I kept wanting to get it..and then would talk myself out of it :P
That CRT you have up there.....looks to be the same one for sure. I did try one of the Shadow's little CRTs in the MECOA, and the thing fired up without the odd pulsating focus.....so I guess these are the same or similar tube. I guess if you find out how much it would cost to send it to 92123 here in San Diego, I'd GLADLY shoot some cash over to you via PayPal or something. The one up there who asked about the flimsy plastic front....yes. All of them sorta have that, including the Shadow. The red one in my pics came with BIG abrasions on the front and I had to fashion a whole front from some clear plastic.
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08-15-2012, 12:59 AM
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08-15-2012, 07:09 AM
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LOL..... You hafta build a LITTLE tiny roundie!!
I have a small monitor I built out of a 1" viewfinder CRT like that, but it's maybe a .75" rectangle one. I wish I had REAL good woodworking skills. I'd build a REAL real small wood cabinet and make it look like an old Motorola set or something, or even a little "mirror" set. So far, it's just a little TINY ntsc b/w monitor just sorta ziptied together :P I do have a Panasonic CT-101 up in LA at my dad's place. I gotta remember to get that little thing down here some day before it grows legs or something. It's a 1.5" color set. And Eric...COOL!! Would deffinately love to see a little CRT for this little set, and I'm in no hurry. I didn't really seem to ever locate any place I could just buy a couple, and I hate the idea of being "stymied" by such an obvious problem on one of my little projects. I noticed last night that the original CRT also has a different "warmer" phosphor color. I think I saw that a couple times with the little 5" Coby style sets too. Seems like the SAME crt by different manufacturers....or could even be just different batches. The Maggies have the same CRT, but are "cooler" in that their b/w picture is more on the blue side. One of the 5" sets is so weird in that way it's almost PURPLE even though it's the same CRT used in THOSE sets. Weird though....I still can't find anything that looks like a model number on these. The two maggies have some chinese scrawl on some stickers, but the original problem CRT still just has the "EIA 1240" sticker and thats all. I did LOOK at the necks real closely before I just indiscriminately swapped 'em just to see. They appear to be exactly the same part. I even looked at the CRT on the little 4" Magnavox "TV/clock/radio" I have....and it ALSO is the same nondescript crt the two shadows have. I'd lay odds the little Emerson "boombox" with the 4" picture is likely the same as well. It's pretty hard to miss the very square and flat geometery of this part compared with other CRTs. No doubt popular because of the short throw of it's high deflection.
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08-15-2012, 11:45 AM
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Until now I had never seen a CRT that small. Where would a tiny tube like that be used, anyway?
 Too small to be a television CRT. I once saw a TV (in an old issue of the defunct Popular Electronics magazine, IIRC) with a 3" tube built for a doll house, but this little button-shaped (and sized) one is a new one on me. Probably one of a kind.BTW, in answer to the post from the person who has the pink portable TV and who said "can you imagine getting a TV like this in 1970 (or whenever you were 10)": I was ten years old in 1966. I don't think that particular TV had even been thought of until the 1970s. My first TV was, IIRC, a 16" 1950s console Capehart set, followed, again IIRC, by a 17" 1955 Emerson metal-cased portable. The smallest b&w TV I ever had was a 12" 1969 Sharp portable that lasted only three years (tuner problems).  I had several small b&w TVs after that, with the smallest color set (after my Silvertone CTC-12 clone bit the dust in the early '70s) being a 16" Sears-branded (but probably made by Toshiba) metal-cased table model, a trash find in 1975. The smallest color set I have ever seen was in an eBay posting a few weeks ago; the set was a Sony Trinitron 6" TV. I bet that set would make excellent HD pictures, with a screen that small.
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The one I have is from a Viewfinder in a big old dinosaur of an RCA camcorder...a big VHS one. As I was about to TOSS the thing because of a power supply issue....I saw the little viewfinder and carefully dissected it. Turns out the small board next to it and the CRT itself could be made into a little b/w monitor just by carefully excising and rigging up some custom 9Vdc wires and an RCA jack. I've kept it around just for giggles...and always think I'm gonna build something silly with it.
If I coulda figured out a VERY small tuner of some sort....I woulda built a "pack of smokes" TV or some silliness. I could probly at THIS point put it in a REAL small cigar box with an RCA jack at one end and a 9 volt battery. Maybe hack it into one of the small plastic drawers of the workbench organizer :P It makes a VERY useless....incredibly CLEAR little tiny picture...with NO sound
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I'm thinking that the tiny Panasonic sets (about 1.3 inch , diagonal screen) were about the smallest TVs sold to the public.
Shown next to a tube from a Sinclar set (and a quarter) for comparison. Picture taken from "A little Flat Tube Fun" Thread: http://www.videokarma.org/showthread.php?t=246309 jr Last edited by jr_tech; 08-15-2012 at 01:27 PM. Reason: add link
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08-15-2012, 01:47 PM
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Yup....I have a TR-1010 (the one you pictured), a TR-1030 (same picture...even SMALLER set), and the little CT-101 (a COLOR version...same size picture...a little bigger set)
That CRT pictured next to the 1010 is not the same tube in that set. It's a very square flat face, and has a more traditional neck with a regular yoke on it. I've had to get into the 1010 a few times for vertical issues before....and it's a NASTY set to work on. I think I even have a 1010 in a "basket" somewhere from many years ago that I killed trying to fix it. I've been into my current one like three times in three or four years. Mostly just cold solder joints and once to mess with the "ribbon" cable that joins the top and bottom PC boards. I used to actually CARRY the oldest 1010 as was intended...but that made it REAL unreliable as it gets tossed around. The 1030 showed up pristine in it's own box....so I keep it safe on a shelf and don't mess with it. I do have it come on with the little X10 power controller that turns on that whole bookcase of small sets though. Thanks for the link to the other thread...NICE read from long before I got here (which was only a few months ago). ALWAYS nice to see others collecting micros. then I don't feel QUITE as weird. I have friends that ask not only "why all the little TV sets"...but also "What's wrong with the little modern LCD sets?". They just don't get it do they?
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If I come across another I'm going to grab it, how cool would it be to build a 1/10th scale 630 TS or a 1/7th scale 621TS 
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