OT: vintage TV

[Kris N. Bodenheimer]

>Almost 50 year old tube circuits not powered in 20 years?  Not too
>shabby. :)
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I use homemade tube circuits in my stereo amps, and have seen 70 year 
old tubes work great.  What has the shortest life in a circuit ain't the 
tubes, it's the damn capacitors.  And that old tv probably has a lot of 
oil caps in it, that are quite expensive (relative to $.02 electolytics) 
to drop in, course you can refiddle it to use cheap caps, but you had 
better have a sync generator.  Flybacks are prone fail also, and not 
really replaceable (anymore).  Tubes are easy to find right now, an RCA 
recieving tube manual will give you some tube equillavencies.  Also good 
to have a tube tester.  My 'portable' tester is pocket sized 40 lb beast.

Kris

>On Mar 9, 2005 11:55 PM, crash 3m <crash3m at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>I ran acrossed a Zenith TV from 1958, model c2358W chassis 18c20.  I
>>havent tested it but the unit itself looks to be in good condition
>>(there is a dark stain on the top, and the knobs are worn.)  It was
>>said to be working the last time it was plugged in (over 20 years
>>ago.)  I was going to dump it, but thought I would see if there are
>>any collectors of vintage electronics that might want to take it off
>>my hands.   I am located in Lee's Summit.  If there are any takers
>>please email me back off list a.s.a.p.    First response takes it.
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