Thorn 1615B Chassis
Model: Ferguson 3852
Year:1980
System:625 Line
Original List Price : £000.00 ( to be ascertained)
Valves: None
Transistors: Yes
Intergrated Circuits:
CRT: 24″ TMT61-101
The CRT
I was warned when I collected this TV that CRT was low, I decided to get the CRT tester out to have a look. The B&K 467 was pressed into service, adapter 6 was used and immediately I could see the tube was indeed low (in the yellow) and what’s more it had a grid to cathode leak/short. I used the remove shorts function and that cleared that fault. Next was a clean and balance, this again had spectacular results and now I have good emission.
Switched the set on after years of dormancy, tuned into the workshop test signal, adjusted brightness and contrast.
Rediffusion had a number of these out on rent, not a bad set at all. I remember the CRT in most of them were made in Poland by Unitra, Quite rough phosphor coating with a slight green tinge, Malc.
It’s interesting that I mention this as being a potentially rare set & 1 turns up!
Any idea on it’s history?
My neighbour had one of these – working for much of the 1980s. Eventually it was handed to me as a “get it working or scrap it” present. Unfortunately I never did manage to correct the line collapse it had.
Nice television set, but isnt a little late for those B/W television sets? in Denmark we only have small B/W sets for camping or for vacation house
Yes these were the last large sized monochrome sets made in the UK, but Philips & Grundig made similar sized TVs into the mid 1980s.
Some East European & Far Eastern manufacturers we still making big B/W sets into the 1990s.