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Granada Television Brochure, 1970s
Long Gone UK TV Shops
Memories of a Derwent Field Service Engineer
PYE Australia Circa 1971
Radios-TV VRAT
Fabulous Fablon
Thorn TX10 Chassis
Crusty-TV Museum, Analogue TV Network
Philips N1500 Warning!
Rumbelows
Thorn EMI Advertising
Thorn’s Guide to Servicing a VCR
Ferguson 3V24 De-Robed
Want to tell us a story?
Video Circuits V15 – Tripler Tester
Thorn Chassis Guide
Remove Teletext Lines & VCR Problems
Ceefax (Teletext)
Suggestions
Website Refresh
Colour TV Brochures
1970s Lounge Recreation
CrustyTV Vintage Television Museum
Linda Lovelace Experience
Humbars on a Sony KV2702
1972 Ultra 6713
D|E|R Service “The Best”
The one that got away
Technical information
The Line Output Stage
The map
Tales of a newly qualified young engineer.
Tales of a Radio Rentals Van Boy
Sanyo SMD
Disastrous Company Rebranding
1969 Philips G22K511
Memories Of The TV Trade
Crazy house
Dirty TV screens
Dual Standard and Single Standard CTV’s
Radios-TV on YouTube
The Winter of 62/63
A domestic audio installation
1979 Ferguson Videostar Deluxe 3V16
Music centre modifications
Unusual record player modification
B&K 467 Adapters
Mishaps In The Trade
1971 Beovision 3200
1971 Bush CTV1120
Coming up soon: an exciting new restoration project!
Till Eulenspiegel said
Work on the cabinet continues. There is traces of green paint to get rid of and it ain't easy trying to remove the stuff.Latest picture of the surface of the cabinet top. Beautiful veneer pattern and to think they sloshed that green stuff over this?
Till Eulenspiegel.
I've often had that argument with people who think a coat of reassuringly expensive paint like Farrow and Ball or similar greatly improves "boring brown furniture that no-one wants anyway."
A week or two ago I was at our local auction house and there was the most beautiful 1950s bedroom set executed entirely in birds-eye maple; it consisted of lady's and gentleman's wardrobes, bedside cabinets, dressing table and head/footboards for the bed. If I had the room in my bedroom, that would have come home with me...
That paint was the most dire sacrilege of the diabolical kind. That cabinet is going look fantastic once it's been restored.
I certainly 'doff me cap' to you on this one!
Marion
Hi Marion, Checked out the distance Newcastle to Truro, it's more than 450 miles. > Nine hundred mile round trip to pick up an old TV. No thanks, I'll keep faith with the green cabinet restoration. Just got to get rid of the last traces of that horrible paint and then work can commence modifying the cabinet to accommodate the Plessey Mark 1 chassis.
Till Eulenspiegel.
NEWS FLASH! 22:00hrs: The Ebay Decca 101 TV sold for £16.00!
That's a lot less than I paid for the green cabinet.
Till Eulenspiegel.
As long as it doesn't end up painted green, gutted and offered for sale a "retro/antique" bookcase.
Like I said, if it had been nearby, I'd have taken a punt at it, but Truro would be around 350 miles from here, and I'm good for around 30~35 miles (on a good day). After that, my lumbar spine gets very angry.
Marion
What a bargain but alas too far away for me. Fingers crossed it's gone to an enthusiast.
Marc.
Marc
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Posted by: Katie BushThat method of mounting a CRT always used to give me the 'heebeegeebees' but then, what was the alternative?
Work on recreating the Decca 101 has restarted. This week I will concentrate on finding a method of mounting the round 12" CRT, the chances are it will have to be those webbing straps and springs.
A new removable front panel has been made and now I have to figure out how the CRT and it's rubber mask can be fitted on a new front panel. Without having a similar set to copy some artistic license will have to be allowed. However, what does appear apparent in the pictures of the Decca 101 is that the front panel can be removed for screen cleaning. Rather taking the risk of using a good CR tube I have a broken CRM121 CRT for test fitting in the new front panel.
The most difficult part of the recreation is those Decca trade mark loudspeaker slats, all eighteen of them!
Till Eulenspiegel.
The new front panel test fitted today. The original cabinet floor will be chopped out because the Decca 101 service manual informs us that it is possible to carry out most servicing to the chassis by simply inverting the cabinet.
The Plessey sourced chassis is supported on two narrow battens.
Note the green cabinet doors and a glimpse of a Murphy V136 which has suffered the same fate as the Decca 121 cabinet.
Till Eulenspiegel.
The correct rubber mask needed for the Decca 101 was removed from the Defiant TR1250.
Till Eulenspiegel.
Hi David.
I like the double 13 amp socket fitted to the screen, excellent. ?
Cheers,
Trevor.
MM0KJJ. RSGB, GQRP, WACRAL, K&LARC. Member
I did have to look twice at that photo.
Great job on the cabinet.
Frank
Hi all and a happy new Year.
As there's no electronics left in this one you could install an arcade monitor chassis and make the bottom section contain the decoder and audio. I'm nnot sure about the green paintwork but it all depends whether you want original looks. Me, I'm starting the other way round, once I can get back into trhings after the New Year break. I'm beginning with a chassis and building a cabinet, and although it's going to look retro, it should be totally unique.
Posted by: MongooseDCAs there's no electronics left in this one you could install an arcade monitor chassis and make the bottom section contain the decoder and audio.
If you knew David and the work he does, an arcade monitor chassis wouldn't even be the last thing he would consider, in fact it would be complete heresy. ?
Besides on page two you should have noticed he already has an appropriate candidate chassis, see here. Also making progress with the electronics here.
Posted by: MongooseDC
I'm nnot sure about the green paintwork but it all depends whether you want original looks.
With Davids renowned cabinet skills, leaving it green was never going to be an option. Again by reading up to page 4 of the thread you will have noticed he has all but achieved its removal, see here.
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Hi.
Like Chris I've seen David's cabinet skills. He is a true craftsman and also a very generous person. I was gifted his Ekco TSC30A a couple of years ago and to say I was gobsmacked is an under statement. The set has an illustrious history after being chopped in half to make a table model. To cut a long story short David and another friend rebuilt this back to its former glory of a console set. As far as we know it is the only surviving one and it looks superb. I also remember David building a replica cabinet for a pre war GEC and don't forget Mike's HMV900.
I certainly would love to have those carpentry skills he has.
Cheers,
Trevor.
MM0KJJ. RSGB, GQRP, WACRAL, K&LARC. Member
Update on the progress of the Decca 101 recreation.
The 6.35mm safety glass was made by a local firm, Traditional Glass. The correct rubber mask for the Decca was removed from a Defiant TR1250 TV set.
The Plessey Mk1 chassis from the Defiant will be installed later on. The CRT chosen for the Decca will be a Mullard MW31-74.
Till Eulenspiegel.
But elements of this former hipster horror show still exist. Those door knobs for example.
Till Eulenspiegel.
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