showing off my TV

[mbates14]

I have 2 TVs.

This one was my great grandparents, and it is unrestored.

Can you date this? It has a service tag of 1960 from 2 or 3 tubes replaced.

I still have yet to see one like this silvertone.

I cant upload the pic. crap.

The jpg is 600kb, any ideas?

[Eric H]

Welcome to AK!

The picture is too large I think, you need to shrink it down a bit. I don't know the size limit but less than 100k is probably OK.

If you need some help with that E-mail it to me and I can fix it with Photoshop and send it back to you.

Eric

[mbates14]

i dont have a program that does that.

[mbates14]

i got it. i forgot my camera has a built in editor

[Charlie]

That's a unique looking set. I like the way the channel selector is in the middle. Is that one the Silvertone? Look on the back of the set and see if you can find a model number. That would help us date it.

Looks like it could use a filter cap in the verticle circuits.

On your camera, you should be able to set it to 640 x 480 before taking the picture.

You said you have 2 sets... what is the other one?

[Tubejunke]

I found a Silvertone like that at the dump one night. It cleaned up nicely and I nearly got it working one winter. The chassis has to be the vbest design ever. The whole thing is flat and is very light and easily removable. The only downfall is the series circuitry and selenium rectifiers. They must have a lot of vertical trouble. I see yours has it and mine did to. Mine had no vertical sweep. I forget what I did but I got it working. My rectifiers were heating up last I remember. It would have been an easy re cap. I dont know why I lost interest but I did and gave it away to a collector in a different income bracket than myself. More income= more space. I do this from time to time to make space for newer projects. Sometimes like now I regret it but at least the stuff I cull goes to a good home and stays in the collector circle. The set is from 56 or 57 I believe. I do remember an ion trap on the crt which tells me it couldnt be much newer than that.

[mbates14]

yea, its the same thing with mine.

If i first turn mine on, it works perfect.

After it runs for a little bit, the picture will slowly shrink, it looks like a scrunched 16:9 when it happens.

If i keep a boxfan blowing on the chassis, it stays full raster.

Here is my other one:

http://linux.hamilton-city.k12.oh.us...storation.html

I wrote a whole website on my other one.


(there is an AVI of this set working, PS this is the one with the bad yoke, you can see)

[mbates14]

im sad to say this, but on my silvertone, I have to use a CRT brightener to obtain a good picture.

Then again, it may have alot to do with the original caps too.

My emerson has NO diodes whatsoever.

this emerson, as you noticed was completely destroyed in shipping.

I found a 16rp4 with ion trap untested for 15 bux/

the original tube shattered, thus clipping the leads on the yoke. they are still clipped/cut, and no way to fix it. (hence wavy picture).

I took a gamble on the tube, but hey, it worked!

[mbates14]

there is a sticker in the back of my silvertone, it still has all of its original stickers, Hell, i still have the reciept from it where my great grandma gave it to me!

she paied about 2 grand for it new, in chicago.

just came out, but if she would have waited, another model better than that prolly surfaced and the prices prolly dropped considerably.

BTW they are both still alive and well. one is 90 the other is 86.

Im 18 BTW. I restored that emerson when i was 16.

[Charlie]

Does the Silvertone use a 21" CRT? Do you have a Sam's Photofact for it?

[mbates14]

i dont have a photofact, altho i wish i did. I have to resore the vert circuitry,

I forgot to mention there is a sticker on the back that said "All new aluminized picture tube".

Another thing i forgot to mention, Why does the HV arc from the metal brace holding the tube to cabinet, to the aquadag?

it arcs like crazy, and sometimes runs a continuos blue flow of electricity up and down that brace to the tube.

If i duck tape that brace up, it will calm down.

I cant see the sticker on the tube. (no flashlight).

But, if it is a 21" its the same size of todays 27" tubes.

[Charlie]

For the arcing, there should be some kind of grounding device... usually a spring or metal strap traveling across the funnel of the tube... that would keep the aquadag grounded. If the ground is not there, you might get juice jumping around in there.

If you can get a model number off the chassis, I can see if I have the sams for it. Sears usually had a number stamped somewhere on the chassis. They're numbers really never followed a pattern. Sometimes they were 3 digits, sometimes they were 8 digits. IIRC, they did use a metal tag that was usually rivetted to the chassis, but that might only have a serial number.

[mbates14]

the aquadag is grounded.


both the dag, and that brace is grounded.


hmmmmm. and that brace arcs only to one side of the dag. Guess where that side is, the anode lead.


528.38503

[Charlie]

Is the surface clean? If there's a lot of dust on there, it could conduct the HV.

That number brings up Sams 329-13. Will go check my files.

[mbates14]

i cleaned teh dust off.