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1983 Philips 26CS3890/05R Teletext & Printer
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BBC Microcomputer TELETEXT Project
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PYE 1980s Brochure
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1983 Sanyo Brochure
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Unitra Brochure
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Thorn TRUMPS 2
Grundig Brochure 1984
The Obscure and missing Continental
G11 Television 1978 – 1980
Reditune
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Thorn 3D01 – VHD VideoDisc Player
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
Suggestions
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To clarify further:
- turpentine is made from the sap of pine trees and is slightly viscous;
- white spirit is a distillate of paraffin oil and more importantly, is made to a standard - to wit BS 245/DIN 51632;
- turpentine substitute is a petroleum distillate and not made to any particular standard.
An interesting description of the variations here: https://cambridgetraditionalproducts.co.uk/blog/turpentine-versus-white-spirit-in-beeswax-furniture-polish

I do recall posts by Dr. Hugo Holden, who used to contribute to UKVRRR as Argus25 and still does as ACORNVALVE on the US Antique Radios forum, where he reported considerable success on the simmering in white spirit followed by treatment with polyester varnish technique. Various other vintage technology projects of his can be found at https://www.worldphaco.com/ and a specifically TV22 LOPT restoration article at https://www.worldphaco.com/uploads/BUSH_TV22.pdf
Yes, the term "turpentine" or "turps" does get bandied around sloppily, almost invariably folk mean white spirit and have done for decades, rather than the actual substance distilled from coniferous tree resin. I think genuine turpentine might still be available from artists' materials suppliers but I don't suppose it's particularly commonplace or cheap. I don't know what the specific yield from trees is, but I recall that, towards the end of WW2 as Japan was inexorably choked of raw materials, it supposedly took 100,000 pine tree stumps to yield sufficient ersatz petrol for one kamikaze mission....
I'm reminded that there are different names around the world for what is referred to as "methylated spirits" in the UK, I believe that it's called "wood alcohol" across the pond.

Posted by: @turretslugI do recall posts by Dr. Hugo Holden, who used to contribute to UKVRRR as Argus25
A man of impeccable taste as he owns two "Dinosaur" standards converters, I seem to recall 😉
Pretty sure he used to post here too, commenting on the much-missed Brian Cuff's own PT "Argus".
Bird Brand sell genuine turpentine in varying sizes but a litre will cost you £17.27.
https://www.birdbrand.co.uk/shop/solvents/genuine-turpentine/
The stuff I have is labelled "Mineral Turpentine" and also in small print "Turpentine Substitute UN 1300" and "100% Hydrocarbon Liquid".
From the "Bunnings" website:
"
DIGGERS™ Mineral Turpentine is a white-spirit hydrocarbon solvent commonly used for thinning oil-based paints and cleaning paint brushes and equipment after painting.
"
AU$21 gets you 4 litres.
So yes, white spirit looks like it's the generic base. I'd never heard it called that.
And yes, Methylated Spirits is called that here too.

Posted by: @irob2345So yes, white spirit looks like it's the generic base. I'd never heard it called that.
Now you know why I queried it... "divided by a common language" and all that 🙂

Looking at the discussions where boiling the line/EHT transformer in solvent is discussed, I am minded to try it out on a set in my lounge whenever I get round to it (hah!); to wit, a Bush TUG12A. These are somewhat different to the TV22 but hey, nothing ventured, nothing gained. I have an old saucepan and a couple of vintage Belling electric boiling plates to try this with.

Thanks for all the interesting comments - I think I'll get hold of a boiling plate and give it a go. @cathovisor I look forward to seeing how you get on with the LOPT from your Bush TUG12A!
Laurence
I use one of those slow electric cookers, you know the ones with the removable ceramic bowl that sits in the heater part of the appliance.

I sat my TV22 lopt in a jar submerged in white spirits for a few weeks, changing it when it became brown and horrible. Then gave it a good few coats of acrylic spray lacquer. Is there any need to heat it unless you're in a hurry?

Someone with less rusty understanding of physical chemistry than myself would be better placed to confirm this, but maybe hot white spirit would be better and more thorough at driving long-embedded damp out fairly quickly? All the same, I reckon I'd be more comfortable with slow, ambient temperature dunking from both the safety and the smell point of view.
According to my friend Pete who has extensive knowledge of paints, lacquers, solvents and finishes, the long first soak in polyester lacquer or something compatible with the white spirit is absolutely essential so that the lacquer replaces the white spirit right through the windings.
http://www.earlytelevision.org/saving_flyback_transformers.html
Pete doubts that Prepsol would work with bitumen or berry-wiggins-compound. So hot white spirits (turps) is correct for your LOPT.
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