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Equipment Repairs => LCD TV forum => Topic started by: sparky on July 19, 2016,04:24:29
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Hi Chris picked this up yesterday thought it might help with repairs
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I've got that very book somewhere,given to me when I was an apprentice in the early seventies by my old Dad,he like many guy's from the fifties & sixties dabbled with tv's & that new fangled stereo sound.When I was apprenticed,where I worked we had a AVO valve tester,looked like something from a Frankenstein film.Old boy's used to bring their valves in for testing,for a small fee.Trouble is they often washed/polished them up removing all the I.D. letters numbers.One of our engineers though,if they told him their set make model,he could tell them which valve was which & its type(proper old engineer)He'd be bored by our throw away panels we have now. Lol. I remember him well,I think Rank introduced the first t.v. with an i.c. fitted,which died if the EHT flashed over,he pronounced them "Bloody rubbish"Transistors"Bloody rubbish,fiddly little*******"followed by won't last five minutes.I just remember when it was quiet o.k. to fix a mains droppers with a RS dropper section.Although I did a Philips G8 once o/c section,like a fool,didn't discharge the main smoother,I can still feel the belt to this day,lesson learnt.
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Nice one Dave, hope by now you've got your Sinclair flat screen tubed telly to go.
Started trying to mend in the mid 50's with my dad's Pifco Radiometer and 60 watt Henley Solon (still functional and used now for gently stripping LEDs off strips) The Pifco didn't last though as needed 30M/A for FSD which flattened HT batteries pretty fast and gave curious voltage readings most everywhere.
Found up a 'Radio Constructor' from those distant days when valves were still king and transistors were Germanium - Chris.
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Nice one Dave, hope by now you've got your Sinclair flat screen tubed telly to go.
Started trying to mend in the mid 50's with my dad's Pifco Radiometer and 60 watt Henley Solon (still functional and used now for gently stripping LEDs off strips) The Pifco didn't last though as needed 30M/A for FSD which flattened HT batteries pretty fast and gave curious voltage readings most everywhere.
Found up a 'Radio Constructor' from those distant days when valves were still king and transistors were Germanium - Chris.
good scan for more old radio mags to download try here http://www.americanradiohistory.com/ (sadly these are scanned but missing the ads :03: )
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Ah, Radio Constructor, I loved 'In your workshop' the antics of Dick and Smithy, here's a link to some old Dick and Smithy articles http://www.vintageradio.me.uk/radconnav/iywindex.htm (http://www.vintageradio.me.uk/radconnav/iywindex.htm) and another one may be interesting Radio Constructor archives http://www.vintageradio.me.uk/radconnav/transtrf/ (http://www.vintageradio.me.uk/radconnav/transtrf/)
Dave
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Les's stories kept me entertained in Television mag http://www.vintage-radio.info/llj/