What a good tv restorers book, for the novice?

[jbivy]

So ive played with old radios before, but the extent of my experience is testing the tubes, replacing the wiring and recapping. Yes, I apparently did them correctly, as they played after.

I picked up a 57 zenith royal and a '50 motorola desktop sets on the cheap. The zenith worked fine, had a strong picture and sound for a few hours and then.. Well now im only getting the ocassional glimpse of a picture in the bottom right among a lot of static and no sound.

Tv's still baffle me and I need a good book explaining just how they work (for the 1950s era girls). Something for the beginner with a good trouble shooting section. While i assume that this will be fairly close to restoring an old radio, many of the same procedures, most of its all new to me. So any help would be appreciated.

Oh and I did find the sams photofact sheet for the motorola, havent found one for the zenith as of yet.

[JoeNewberry]

I'm currently reading Elements of Television Servicing by Abraham Marcus and Samuel E. Gendler. It's quite a step up from my starter book, Television and Radio Repairing by John Markus, which felt more like a radio restoration book with TV interspersed.

[bandersen]

"Television Service Course" by Beitman and "Photofact Television Course" by Sams are pretty good. They show up on ebay now and then.