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05-08-2009, 03:58 PM
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Call Me Mister Dummazz...
Y'all remember that funky Sony power cord I was looking for, to fit that 8-301 TV I got ? Well, Harry Poster-bless his heart- sent me one. Well, I was loading up a bunch of Stuff to take to Terry DeWick's ystrday, stuffed the cord in my pocket, grabbed the 8-301 & off we go...Well, reach into my pocket to give Terry the cord when we get down there...An' it was gone. Uh-oh. And I'm afraid I know where it is...Got home last night, & yep, there it was- In the Sun Room, where I keep the dogs when we aren't here, neatly chewed in 2. Still haven't found the end that has the funky "Sony" female end to it, if they haven't worked it too bad, I may be able to splice it back together, somehow. Sony, being Sony, & therefore difficult & ornery, just HAD to use an oddball power cord for all their stuff... But I blame myself, for not holding the gawdam thing in my hot little hand & PHYSICALLY setting it on top of the TV when I set it in my truck....Grrrrrrr !.....I don't suppose anyone else has ever pulled such a colossal boner as this, have they ?
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05-08-2009, 04:01 PM
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05-08-2009, 07:53 PM
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Sandy, can you take a pic, even a poor, cellphone one, of the business end of that Sony cord?
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05-08-2009, 07:55 PM
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or find a picture of the back of one of those tv's?
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05-08-2009, 08:08 PM
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Wish I could, Ernie...I may go, hat in hand, back to Harry to see if he has another one...May be all for naught anyway, if Terry can't get the 8-301 to work...Fortunately, COSMETICALLY, its in excellent shape, & will make a GREAT display set, if it doesn't work.
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05-08-2009, 08:46 PM
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Good luck on that cord.
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05-08-2009, 09:46 PM
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05-08-2009, 11:30 PM
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I think that cord is the same as used on the common 5" model, 5-303 I think. It is a four prong female end with an orientation protrusion moulded in. You could get a junker 5" Sony with the cord to get a replacement, one option.
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05-09-2009, 03:57 AM
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05-09-2009, 05:08 AM
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Hi Sandy,
Re: Sony power cord. See pictures below. Hope this helps, King-size goofs: In 1987, purchased my first satellite receiver, in the UK, while at a trade show. Was under severe pressure by colleagues to pack ASAP & catch a cab to the airport. Frantically stuffed the Sat gear in my suitcase & departed. Found upon arrival in Paris that the all important remote control was left behind, lost somewhere in the hotel bed sheets! This was a NEC receiver, took me 3 months to get a spare remote (no Internet ordering back then). Best Regards jhalphen Paris/France
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05-09-2009, 11:35 AM
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Sorry to hear about that... We've all done it. Worst case was a CT-100 cabinet top that I thought had all 4 latches secured. They weren't, and the top is somewhere along Interstate 5 between Hwy 22 and Hwy 10. Luckily, it was a junker CT-100 that I bought for $25, and I didn't need the top. But it's the idea of my oversight that bothers me.
That Sony cord is fairly common (functionally, that is), but the appearance of the AC wall plug itself changed a few times. The early ones are smooth at the AC outlet end, and have a concave circle with "SONY" embossed inside. They were light gray. Later, they had the same light gray thin cord, but the AC plug had flanges so your fingers wouldn't slip around the front and touch the prongs while plugging in. Last, they made the cord heavier, and added a white stripe to the neutral side. And I think I've seen a few brown ones from the 90s, which would have been the last gasp of Sony new replacements. I'm not sure, but I think the female (TV) end stayed the same physical appearance throughout the years. Charles
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05-09-2009, 02:04 PM
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I recently picked up a couple of these Sony car adapters, don't know what set they are supposed to go with or if it'll work for the 301 but possibly the cord part could be used for repair?
It has a big TO case transistor inside. The flash washed it out but there are four holes in the plug.
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05-09-2009, 07:02 PM
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As some of you may already know, i keep part of my TV collection in a partitioned area of the same barn where i keep my two horses and the mule, their stalls all have dutch doors (half height) I once scored a rare 1980 Telefunken super deluxe set with a two way bass reflex speaker system and so on, the weather was miserable and i was in a hurry so i backed up my car into the barn and left the Telefunken on a bench near the mule's stall then turned off the light and drove away. When i came back later to take a closer look at the set, i was horrified to find the set face down on the floor, with a split cabinet, the rear cover busted off and the PCB chassis broken around the flyback, apparently the mule managed to reach to the set and chewed the upper front edge of the cabinet then toppled it off the bench, he was lucky the CRT didn't implode on him!
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05-09-2009, 08:57 PM
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It wasn't this particular Donkey who did it, I hope... He's the "cutest little donkey, he never even kicks." (you gotta click this link) Dominic the Donkey
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