Magnavox combo problems

[Jeffhs]

[QUOTE=anteater81]
First, it works well on UHF when the cable is hooked up to it, but VHF is nothing but slanted horizontal lines. Perfect sound, though. When the cable is unhooked and the rabbit ears attached, I get one station on VHF just fine, but nothing else.[\QUOTE]

I'm baffled myself, and I've been working with old TVs as a hobby for years (well, at least I did when I lived in a house with a basement--I live in a small apartment now). If your set works and gives you a good picture on UHF stations, however, I wouldn't be too concerned about the horizontal circuits (if they were defective, or if the HV shutdown was activating, all stations, VHF and UHF, would come in out of horizontal sync).

I like the style of your set's cabinet; I always did (and still do) like anything made of solid wood. I used to have several of those old consoles (TV only) back where I lived before coming here to the small town where I am now. No big 3-way console units, though. I would have liked to have had one of those sets, especially a Zenith, as that always was my favorite brand of home-entertainment equipment until they were taken over by GoldStar in the nineties). I still have two Zenith radios, a 1951 BC-only table model in my bedroom and a K-731 AM/FM hi-fi radio on top of the refrigerator--the K-731 is in a very nice walnut wood cabinet and will likely be the closest I ever come to having a big console in this apartment. I have my TV, VCR, DVD player and cable box on a solid oak utility cart, which fits very nicely in a corner of my place (again, no room for anything like those big floor-to-ceiling wall units; I have a friend who has all his TV and audio gear in one, but he can do it because he lives in a good-sized house with a huge family room--his entertainment center goes literally from floor to ceiling and takes up an entire wall, or close to it).

Good luck with your Magnavox console. Those were well-made sets, not like the Philips-Magnavox stuff coming off the assembly lines in Korea today. Yours is an original Magnavox, built by The Magnavox Company of Fort Wayne, Indiana (this dates the set right away, as the original Magnavox Company has been out of business now for perhaps twenty years or more; your set looks like mid or maybe late sixties, judging by the cabinet style and also going on information from another person here who said Magnavox was making solid-state TVs in 1966--the fact that your set also has a UHF tuner would date it some time after April 30, 1964, the date when all televisions were required by law to be equipped for all-channel reception).

Kind regards,