This is a beautiful console. I have an Rca with similar legs. It doesn't surprise me that his parents kept the set in service all those years. Consoles like that were a substantial investment and people repaired things back then rather than throwing them out. Many people were still watching color sets made in the 60's in the 1980's. The son is lucky the crt is a newer replacement and tests like new. He should get many many years of enjoyment out of the set.
Looks like much potential for restoration. Ten times in for service means they REALLY loved this TV. Average person would have junked it long before, though TV's WERE very expensive and you had to keep them going as long as possible.
Yeah, I had a Packard Bell PC back in the 90's. The raster on the monitor would frequently turn green for some unexplained reason. Windows 95 was pretty buggy, but even more so on that machine.
This is the best review I've ever seen. Of anything on youtube. You actually use the device in real life scenarios and see if it holds up to your workstandards and routines. 99 percent of reviewers out there basically unbox a thing and praise it to high heaven without showing us a thing other than a lot of talk and the bog-standard everyone does an unboxing, whoptie dee, but you nailed it.
To have the TV that my parents had in our living room in the 1970s that I used to watch cartoons on would be a dream! Unfortunately it's long gone. I'm not even sure what it was. I've looked at a few pictures and tried to figure it out but still can't. You're doing that guy. Great service!
Oh one more thing my parents and my grandparents own similar do what that TV is but it was Admiral they called it a casket model like a coffin type Entertainment System we used to watch cartoons in horror movies on it especially horror movies at night time dude you're bringing back memories LOL
That’s going to be a really nice working console, can’t wait for part 2. BTW, the spindle in the Garrard record changer is in backwards, that’s why the record didn’t drop. I can’t believe how much of everything is still functional, obviously very well maintained all throughout its life.
My grandparents had this model. Eventually they gave it to my parents. At some point mid 1970s my parents replaced it with a new Sylvania. This one was looked upon as having no value back in the day. I'm not kidding, before he dumped it he took the nifty legs off. He actually bought a slab of granite and made a coffee table out of it.
I bought a FNIRSI 2 chan scope about 4 or 5 years ago. The instructions have the right model number on the cover, but talk about installing apps, changing the wallpaper and making emergency calls. I think something went wrong at the instructions printers. LOL.
25"TV with stereo FM/AM and phono changer! Wow, that had to be $750-900 at the time. WIth such a nice cabinet no wonder he wants it restored. BTW I too was one of those kids in front of a Zenith 25MC36, my grandparents set, also from 1966. Gigantor in B&W, Kimba the White Lion in color and Bozo the Clown in-between😆
That Packard Bell thing is something else! Digging the mid century atomic style cabinet. I like counterbalance square corners. Love that FINIRSI scopesignalgenmeter thingy also. I have their DSOTC3 unit which is a combo 500K scope, sig gen sins square triangle and component tested ESR etc LOL. I like that one too. The problem is it can't be used as a siggen and a scope Simultaneously. Great video!!!
If Shango gets the bugs out of the AGC/IF circuit, I'll bet this set will produce a nice picture! One thing I've noticed on the color sets from the 1950's-60's is that the color they produce will knock your socks off if they're working right. I suspect the engineers who designed these sets at that time intentionally did this.
I have one of these little Fnisri all in ones in my tool bag, have had it for a couple years now and its pulled my ass out of the fire a few times on job site troubleshooting, found a myriad of controller problems with it, I have one of their ESR meters too , not bad at all for the price
A great Sunday Morning watching Shango nice interesting issues which would be great to see what the cause was but rare to see a picture tube so strong. Kept the service teams in business as it needed lots of service. waiting for video 2 thanks Mike
How I miss the days when electrical items like a TV or a radio would just catch fire for no obvious reason! The fun of being somewhere, wondering if you'd left a radio on, and then having to race home (while praying you would still have a home), only to discover you had in fact turned it off. Good times!
Probably nothing to do with the AGC problem but around 13:55 you can clearly see a loose resistor floating in the bottom vent mesh. I really like this cabinet. Super keep to see the solution to the AGC problem.
Nice video. With the CRT so strong I'm sure the customer will be thrilled with the results. I'm going to have to try out that scope... The recording mode with the DMM function looks super useful. I just hope it lasts given it's source...
Pure Chinesium, but it's only $100 for all those features, and FNIRSI is far from the worst when it comes to that grade of gear. I don't have a scope, or a real need for one, but I'm very tempted.
the turntable spindle being installed backwards.....that brought back nightmares of being 10 years old and accidentally pulling out the spindle in my grandparents RCA combo.....along with 5 or 6 45s and the fullmheight apadtor thing....then it not working when i jammed it back in.....was a terrifying 10 minutes before i figured out it was possible to fit it 180^ out....
That's an interesting color combo Shango066, I have never seen a Packard Bell color set with a Zenith style fold-out chassis, they always resembled the RCA chassis. This set has a lot of hours on it, prepare for some weird problems. It might be easier (since you are doing a restoration anyway) to clean the chassis, controls, tube sockets, and test the tubes. This might save some frustrating troubleshooting down the road. The radio tuner is quite interesting, it is set up for late 1950's stereo simulcasting when they ran one channel on AM and the other channel on FM. However, I noticed they are using a single AM/FM ganged tuning cap so, this tuner obviously doesn't support the AM/FM simulcasting.
When I was a kid in the mid sixties we had a Montgomery Ward Airline black & white 19 inch TV that had that same group of 4 knobs on it with that tiny power switch and when that set finally died it was on its third power switch, very delicate and failure prone...
There are three controls on old TV sets I don't miss at all - fine tuning, vertical hold and horizontal hold. This old set looks promising but it certainly needs some love.
This specific model of Garrard changer (I believe its a 3000 series).seems to be one of the few Garrard ive always run across where the oil/grease doesnt seem to turn to glue. At least on the ones ive run into. KLH used these in their portables,as did Sylvanias exponent series and others. I replaced a cartridge on a packard Bell console that had this same changer but the changer still was working flawlessly itself on every unit ive ever run into with this changer. I think shango had one here in an nos portable that wouldnt spin though. Maybe ive just been lucky. Some of these packard bell consoles used a pickering magnetic pickup
Interesting. I just had a tough AGC problem on a 1961-62 Tech Master black and white 23" CRT chassis (used in a Leowe-Opta console cabinet stereo combo unit- the radio and phono are German and the TV is American made in Brooklyn, NY), and it turned out that there were difficult to troubleshoot bad high megohm resistors in the keyed AGC circuit (using a 6BU8 tube). The symptom was that the AGC control had no effect, nor did the "noise limiter" control, and the set would start off having no or very low IF/RF gain, then it would slowly creep up but only to a level where a very strong input signal would work with poor sync, and the RF/IF gain would be intermittent.
the warm warm warm warm SHIT! had me crying...I've been watching Shango vids for years waiting for that first tube chassis monitor i checked out as an older adult going retro computing did that to me...ok ok ok WAHH F!!!
you know i was thinking that i wish they would make all in one sets like that nowadays then i realized im watching this video on a smart TV but those do look better style wise
LOL I have a bunny rabbit that loves to claw in nah is digs into drywall choose on door moldings and boy does it ever inquired a taste for wires yes wires so if you have a bunny rabbit and especially the one that I have that is actually wild as a pet you might want to protect your cables and wires thank you for the lovely video ve3-ogf in canada
I CRINGED when I saw that dim bulb tester with its bare, raw metal electrical boxes placed directly on the top of that pristine cabinet. Along with all the other hardware. From the video that cabinet is a real gem from that era, very collectible, very valuable, and appears to be in superb condition. Use protection!
You would think the copyright police would give a break to someone fixing a radio! These TouYube algorithms are nuts! This is a weird failure. I can’t wait to see the resolution!
I have an earlier version of the scope and miss being able to dial in the trigger voltage, always set to 50% that I can see so far. A bit of a pain for tricky noisy signals.
i'm still using a Bluestreak automotive hand held scop....annoying, but it will display functional wave forms at speeds up to the clock signal line of 6502 in an Apple ][ well enough to be useful...
I'm pretty sure you have the rare "ChronoViser" version ,I started to see things in the future watching the snow on the raster.Please ,Please restore this beautiful treasure.Our first color set was a 1969 Packard Bell,it had some long hours on it!
Great video as always! 😃 Can the camera be connected to an external display? That might make it easier for coarse adjustments at least, or maybe a USB camera & laptop arrangement? Saves the mirror issues. (I thought you'd actually done something like that when I first saw the front view whilst you were working on it).
One thing I'd suggest (if your camcorder has manual controls) is to set your camcorders' shutter speed to 1/60s, so this way it will minimize (if not eliminate) the rolling black bars on CRT displays.
@@lauram5905 Yes, he uses mainly Samsung phones to record nowadays. But I know he has at least two camcorders (one that shoots 4K, and the other that has better low light sensitivity). So if it just so happens he decides to use one of his camcorders for his TV videos (since smartphones don't really give you much manual exposure control while recording video, or perhaps I'm not up to date on this stuff), he can take advantage of the shutter priority mode and adjust the shutter speed of his camcorder, to sync with whatever subject he's trying to record (CRT flicker, arcing, etc.)
Much of my family are Seventh-Day Adventists. They question me on why I choose not to attend church on Saturday mornings. To which I replied, “I do!”. “I’m religiously in attendance to hear the electronic gospel according to the great tech messiah “Shango” who rested on the 66th day”. 😉
FNIRSI makes a 2 X10Mhz dual channel oscy/multimeter/signal generator called the 2C23T but having the option in this particular unit ( 2C53P) to have a built in signal generator with the specs it has would be cherry except for the fuses that are soldered in ,yikes. Nice TV with dirty pots and tuner contacts among other problems it has ( AGC and sound). Next would be to checking tubes and caps.
these tube TVs are fascinating things but i wish i could follow along better when your going through diagnosis. do you think you could do a video on theory of operation and signal flow at some point?
@Shango066 at about 1 hour and 2 mins, it looks like a light comes on in the speaker grille. Is there something in there or just something weird with the camera? Also do you think cleaning the AGC pot would help, or do you think it maybe an open/shorted cap in the circuit?
I really like that FNIRSI 2C53P scope meter unit! Yes, agreed, if it had modulation of the signal generator then it would be extremely useful as a ‘one tool does it all’. I’m going to buy one and give it a try as my traveling diagnostic tool. How long does the internal battery last?
This is a beautiful console. I have an Rca with similar legs. It doesn't surprise me that his parents kept the set in service all those years. Consoles like that were a substantial investment and people repaired things back then rather than throwing them out. Many people were still watching color sets made in the 60's in the 1980's. The son is lucky the crt is a newer replacement and tests like new. He should get many many years of enjoyment out of the set.
I've seen Zenith sets like that. Very beautiful Danish modern styling.
Thank you, Shago. I stopped painting walls to watch you.
I stopped eating to watch this, it was that good!
And I sat on the toilet for an hour watching
@@Netties8266did the seat come with you when ya got up?
@@Netties8266 TMI, Brother! Lol
@@Monaco-BuilditFixitDriveitEverIf not, I bet their legs were jello.
Looks like much potential for restoration. Ten times in for service means they REALLY loved this TV. Average person would have junked it long before, though TV's WERE very expensive and you had to keep them going as long as possible.
The cabinet is the most valuable part of this set. It's a piece of sleek 1960s retrograde furniture in its own right.
In the late 1970s there were companies that would but new chassis into old cabinets.
It’s incredible how small and cheap these chinese test meters have gotten. They are quirky but man I wish they were available when I got started
I bought one because the last time I pulled the Tek 465 off the closet shelf my back hurt for 3 days!
I saw a review of that meter on CZcams and the fuses are soldered to the board inside. Pass.
@@randyab9go188 Have had my DVM for 30 years, never had cause to replace a fuse in all that time! 😂
The brand never changed, we called their PCs Packard Hell
The computers were made by Korean firm DAEWOO not the original California company packard bell.
I should say among other manufacturers as they all had a turn on the name. lol. Computer by whom ever was the lowest bid in Asia. What could go wrong.
Yeah, I had a Packard Bell PC back in the 90's. The raster on the monitor would frequently turn green for some unexplained reason. Windows 95 was pretty buggy, but even more so on that machine.
@@One-Crazy-Cat Daewoo? I thought it was NEC.
Maybe next pull & test all the tubes ?
A human being going out of business sale. What a way with words.
Percussive maintenance for the win
Fascinating, looking forward to Part 2. The tube looks amazingly bright. Should be really impressive.
This is the best review I've ever seen. Of anything on youtube. You actually use the device in real life scenarios and see if it holds up to your workstandards and routines. 99 percent of reviewers out there basically unbox a thing and praise it to high heaven without showing us a thing other than a lot of talk and the bog-standard everyone does an unboxing, whoptie dee, but you nailed it.
Beautiful cabinet! Nice unit!
I can smell that combo tv set. We had a B/W Zenith , tv radio and record player at home when i was young. Always broken! 😅
Perfect Sunday video for us down under 🍻
All those circuit breakers of that type were JUNK! The Littlefuse replacements we used to use were sooooo much better.
To have the TV that my parents had in our living room in the 1970s that I used to watch cartoons on would be a dream! Unfortunately it's long gone. I'm not even sure what it was. I've looked at a few pictures and tried to figure it out but still can't. You're doing that guy. Great service!
I watched my cartoons in front of a 1970 Zenith console, early to late 70's. Back then I had no problem getting out of bed early in time for sign on!
Might need a 10 part series to restore that one.
Oh one more thing my parents and my grandparents own similar do what that TV is but it was Admiral they called it a casket model like a coffin type Entertainment System we used to watch cartoons in horror movies on it especially horror movies at night time dude you're bringing back memories LOL
That’s going to be a really nice working console, can’t wait for part 2. BTW, the spindle in the Garrard record changer is in backwards, that’s why the record didn’t drop. I can’t believe how much of everything is still functional, obviously very well maintained all throughout its life.
Good on 'yer! Always good to watch a man with the knowledge dealing with a tricky problem.
Multimeter must be the Shango066 Edition. The last button reads "FUNCATION" :)
It is also "intelligent and anti burning" so....
Funcation! Hahaha
I have seen worse - from native English speakers, college graduates, in the Big Media.
@@eaglevision993
Those sound like some pretty nice Feacatures.
That was very good Shango and your commentary is second to none 👍👍
My grandparents had this model. Eventually they gave it to my parents. At some point mid 1970s my parents replaced it with a new Sylvania. This one was looked upon as having no value back in the day. I'm not kidding, before he dumped it he took the nifty legs off. He actually bought a slab of granite and made a coffee table out of it.
My grandparents had a similar looking unit from PB, this was the Dutch/German version and had a wired remote control.
Wow that is a beautiful set. I'm glad to see it being resurrected.
I bought a FNIRSI 2 chan scope about 4 or 5 years ago. The instructions have the right model number on the cover, but talk about installing apps, changing the wallpaper and making emergency calls. I think something went wrong at the instructions printers. LOL.
25"TV with stereo FM/AM and phono changer! Wow, that had to be $750-900 at the time. WIth such a nice cabinet no wonder he wants it restored. BTW I too was one of those kids in front of a Zenith 25MC36, my grandparents set, also from 1966. Gigantor in B&W, Kimba the White Lion in color and Bozo the Clown in-between😆
Excited for this series great first episode shangs!
Beautiful cabinet.
The mystery reflection at 13:33 of you leaves just enough mystique to keep us wondering who the real Shango is
This I good one! Thanks for the video…..looking forward to second half
Great video beautiful set
51:38 The analog horror crowd will sure love that lol, trippy.
Is that the thing where people get scared of poor signals? I will never understand that.
The techknocker school of appliance repair ... Awesome! 😊
33:40 is a video highlight, y’all! 😆 I hope you’re okay man!
Aww sheeet 🤣🤣
"It's supposed to be hot"
Yes, this set has a lot of potential.
That Packard Bell thing is something else! Digging the mid century atomic style cabinet. I like counterbalance square corners. Love that FINIRSI scopesignalgenmeter thingy also. I have their DSOTC3 unit which is a combo 500K scope, sig gen sins square triangle and component tested ESR etc LOL. I like that one too. The problem is it can't be used as a siggen and a scope Simultaneously. Great video!!!
Jesus, those last 5 minutes went a little Aphex Twin there, that's quite a headscratcher
I guess we won't be watching the Home Shopping Network tonight, Kids!
I'm looking forward for part 2 😊.
If Shango gets the bugs out of the AGC/IF circuit, I'll bet this set will produce a nice picture! One thing I've noticed on the color sets from the 1950's-60's is that the color they produce will knock your socks off if they're working right. I suspect the engineers who designed these sets at that time intentionally did this.
I think Plasma of 15 yr ago came closest, but they too are gone now.
I have one of these little Fnisri all in ones in my tool bag, have had it for a couple years now and its pulled my ass out of the fire a few times on job site troubleshooting, found a myriad of controller problems with it, I have one of their ESR meters too , not bad at all for the price
Nice set
A great Sunday Morning watching Shango nice interesting issues which would be great to see what the cause was but rare to see a picture tube so strong. Kept the service teams in business as it needed lots of service. waiting for video 2 thanks Mike
And yes I am a ham radio operator as well I do collect commercial equipment
Wango Tango ShangoO6
👍
How I miss the days when electrical items like a TV or a radio would just catch fire for no obvious reason! The fun of being somewhere, wondering if you'd left a radio on, and then having to race home (while praying you would still have a home), only to discover you had in fact turned it off. Good times!
That is a really beautiful console I really like that❤
Probably nothing to do with the AGC problem but around 13:55 you can clearly see a loose resistor floating in the bottom vent mesh. I really like this cabinet. Super keep to see the solution to the AGC problem.
Nice video. With the CRT so strong I'm sure the customer will be thrilled with the results. I'm going to have to try out that scope... The recording mode with the DMM function looks super useful. I just hope it lasts given it's source...
Pure Chinesium, but it's only $100 for all those features, and FNIRSI is far from the worst when it comes to that grade of gear. I don't have a scope, or a real need for one, but I'm very tempted.
Love this , Me and my beer are glued to the Laptop!
the turntable spindle being installed backwards.....that brought back nightmares of being 10 years old and accidentally pulling out the spindle in my grandparents RCA combo.....along with 5 or 6 45s and the fullmheight apadtor thing....then it not working when i jammed it back in.....was a terrifying 10 minutes before i figured out it was possible to fit it 180^ out....
Foggy Mountain Turntable Breakdown
That's an interesting color combo Shango066, I have never seen a Packard Bell color set with a Zenith style fold-out chassis, they always resembled the RCA chassis. This set has a lot of hours on it, prepare for some weird problems. It might be easier (since you are doing a restoration anyway) to clean the chassis, controls, tube sockets, and test the tubes. This might save some frustrating troubleshooting down the road.
The radio tuner is quite interesting, it is set up for late 1950's stereo simulcasting when they ran one channel on AM and the other channel on FM. However, I noticed they are using a single AM/FM ganged tuning cap so, this tuner obviously doesn't support the AM/FM simulcasting.
I'm officially a Shangoholic ..can't wait to see this one fire up ..I had a table that could have matched that tv very interesting piece
When I was a kid in the mid sixties we had a Montgomery Ward Airline black & white 19 inch TV that had that same group of 4 knobs on it with that tiny power switch and when that set finally died it was on its third power switch, very delicate and failure prone...
About to get my JJ cruiser on
There are three controls on old TV sets I don't miss at all - fine tuning, vertical hold and horizontal hold. This old set looks promising but it certainly needs some love.
Wow! Great!
Damn this Combo TV Set is nearly in mint condition. 🤯🤯🤯
Muito bom
2*50 means dual channel 50mhz
34:50 graphing meter very nice!
This specific model of Garrard changer (I believe its a 3000 series).seems to be one of the few Garrard ive always run across where the oil/grease doesnt seem to turn to glue. At least on the ones ive run into. KLH used these in their portables,as did Sylvanias exponent series and others. I replaced a cartridge on a packard Bell console that had this same changer but the changer still was working flawlessly itself on every unit ive ever run into with this changer. I think shango had one here in an nos portable that wouldnt spin though. Maybe ive just been lucky. Some of these packard bell consoles used a pickering magnetic pickup
Shango needs to bring back the outdoor fun videos ... those were better.
@1:00:11 the music of my people!
Nice 🙂
49:55 - What happened here? We have issues! Love the video Shango066 - beautiful set. ❤
@15:23 - I'm always down for a "How Bad Does It Suck" video!
Your FNIRSI is far more advanced compared to mine, (it's just a two channel scope, no extras).
Interesting. I just had a tough AGC problem on a 1961-62 Tech Master black and white 23" CRT chassis (used in a Leowe-Opta console cabinet stereo combo unit- the radio and phono are German and the TV is American made in Brooklyn, NY), and it turned out that there were difficult to troubleshoot bad high megohm resistors in the keyed AGC circuit (using a 6BU8 tube). The symptom was that the AGC control had no effect, nor did the "noise limiter" control, and the set would start off having no or very low IF/RF gain, then it would slowly creep up but only to a level where a very strong input signal would work with poor sync, and the RF/IF gain would be intermittent.
That easy service is kinda like reclining on an airplane seat moves back 1.25 inches.
Car alarm makes me want to play born in east LA.
Warm, warm, warm, warm, warm, warm, HOT! 🔥
the warm warm warm warm SHIT! had me crying...I've been watching Shango vids for years waiting for that
first tube chassis monitor i checked out as an older adult going retro computing did that to me...ok ok ok WAHH F!!!
Sango time!😍
you know i was thinking that i wish they would make all in one sets like that nowadays then i realized im watching this video on a smart TV but those do look better style wise
....trippy~
Not one BAKED!!! Any chance for some shango merch? Tshirts, coffee mug maybe
It’s big power time guys! 104.9fm.
LOL I have a bunny rabbit that loves to claw in nah is digs into drywall choose on door moldings and boy does it ever inquired a taste for wires yes wires so if you have a bunny rabbit and especially the one that I have that is actually wild as a pet you might want to protect your cables and wires thank you for the lovely video ve3-ogf in canada
That's a nice looking cabinet it's in except for that damn cat that was learning how to write. RIP Morris.
I CRINGED when I saw that dim bulb tester with its bare, raw metal electrical boxes placed directly on the top of that pristine cabinet. Along with all the other hardware. From the video that cabinet is a real gem from that era, very collectible, very valuable, and appears to be in superb condition. Use protection!
You would think the copyright police would give a break to someone fixing a radio! These TouYube algorithms are nuts!
This is a weird failure. I can’t wait to see the resolution!
I have an earlier version of the scope and miss being able to dial in the trigger voltage, always set to 50% that I can see so far. A bit of a pain for tricky noisy signals.
Swear i love the cabinet on that , wish we took the pride they had back then making stuff . Sad .... , smh .
I'm sorry for laughing when you almost melted your glove on that tube.
We're only human after all.
I did laugh pretty hard though.
Maybe the IF problem is related to the transistor filled vacuum bulbs
i'm still using a Bluestreak automotive hand held scop....annoying, but it will display functional wave forms at speeds up to the clock signal line of 6502 in an Apple ][ well enough to be useful...
I'm pretty sure you have the rare "ChronoViser" version ,I started to see things in the future watching the snow on the raster.Please ,Please restore this beautiful treasure.Our first color set was a 1969 Packard Bell,it had some long hours on it!
ohh a portable tv!
Great video as always! 😃
Can the camera be connected to an external display? That might make it easier for coarse adjustments at least, or maybe a USB camera & laptop arrangement? Saves the mirror issues.
(I thought you'd actually done something like that when I first saw the front view whilst you were working on it).
One thing I'd suggest (if your camcorder has manual controls) is to set your camcorders' shutter speed to 1/60s, so this way it will minimize (if not eliminate) the rolling black bars on CRT displays.
I think he uses phones to record, there may be one camcorder somewhere though. But either way it might be buried under a "pro video" mode
@@lauram5905 Yes, he uses mainly Samsung phones to record nowadays. But I know he has at least two camcorders (one that shoots 4K, and the other that has better low light sensitivity). So if it just so happens he decides to use one of his camcorders for his TV videos (since smartphones don't really give you much manual exposure control while recording video, or perhaps I'm not up to date on this stuff), he can take advantage of the shutter priority mode and adjust the shutter speed of his camcorder, to sync with whatever subject he's trying to record (CRT flicker, arcing, etc.)
Pretty sure the garrard changer is a rebranded klh designed by henry kloss. Nice!
It's a Garrard Autoslim based model with an unusual tone arm - presumably for the American market.
@@MrPaulfrazer yes, you are correct. i got it backwards. a klh 11 is a modified garrard not the other way around.
@@Nutz0 Much nicer tone arm than those found over here though. It would take a magnetic cartridge if a pre-amp was fitted
@40:54 are those possibly the same (rebranded) capacitor as the blue Micamold brand?
Much of my family are Seventh-Day Adventists. They question me on why I choose not to attend church on Saturday mornings. To which I replied, “I do!”. “I’m religiously in attendance to hear the electronic gospel according to the great tech messiah “Shango” who rested on the 66th day”. 😉
Can’t miss the weekly resurrection
That face panel was scratched to hell, i hope that was just protective film.
FNIRSI makes a 2 X10Mhz dual channel oscy/multimeter/signal generator called the 2C23T but having the option in this
particular unit ( 2C53P) to have a built in signal generator with the specs it has would be cherry except for the fuses that
are soldered in ,yikes. Nice TV with dirty pots and tuner contacts among other problems it has ( AGC and sound). Next
would be to checking tubes and caps.
You need to flip that needle back over. One side is for 78's. The other for 33's and 45's.
these tube TVs are fascinating things but i wish i could follow along better when your going through diagnosis. do you think you could do a video on theory of operation and signal flow at some point?
@Shango066 at about 1 hour and 2 mins, it looks like a light comes on in the speaker grille. Is there something in there or just something weird with the camera? Also do you think cleaning the AGC pot would help, or do you think it maybe an open/shorted cap in the circuit?
I really like that FNIRSI 2C53P scope meter unit! Yes, agreed, if it had modulation of the signal generator then it would be extremely useful as a ‘one tool does it all’. I’m going to buy one and give it a try as my traveling diagnostic tool. How long does the internal battery last?
22:20 Bar Kays Hit and Run..