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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
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1971 Beovision 3200
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B&W TV Pye T185 1981
I got this 24"!!!! Black & White TV today, a Pye T185 which I believe is the Philips E2 Chassis - Must be rare can't say i've ever seen one, nor am I sure why anyone would want such a large monochrome TV in 1981 when colour wasn't exactly "new"
I'd already been speaking to Malc Scott about a few bits, and he advised me "The lopt tuning and S correction caps should be replaced asap"... The photos on the listing show it working with a weak snowy picture, Good I thought. Today I got it home and switched it on, to find the weakest almost non existent picture possible... With just the smallest hint of life when rotating the contrast etc (due to a dirty pot!)
Could it be damage has already been done to the LOPT?
Below are the pictures from the listing...
I think I saw one of these in Stockport Cash Converters in the late 1990s in a line of 1980s large screen sets. I noticed the low asking price before noticing it wasn't a colour set.
By the early 1980s I imagine it was only the elderly, people with eye problems and those who couldn't afford a colour licence would want a larger screen B&W set.
Philips seemed to be the last of the Western big manufacturers to make large monochrome sets, they were still being made in Eastern Europe & probably the Far East until the end of the 1980s.
Posted by: @jskinner97I got this 24"!!!! Black & White TV today, a Pye T185 which I believe is the Philips E2 Chassis - Must be rare can't say i've ever seen one, nor am I sure why anyone would want such a large monochrome TV in 1981 when colour wasn't exactly "new"
You never met my great-aunt Rose, did you?!
I was given the task of buying her a new black and white TV in 1983 because she would NOT pay the extra for the colour licence and I was fed up of propping up her Pye model 11 (I think) with its flat tube - it was definitely dual standard with a huge rotary channel knob. Bought from the local vicar for £10 at the time.
By then only the 20" Ferguson sets were in production, so I got her one of those. That lasted for many years with my help and she only had a colour TV for the last couple of years of her life - a CRT Samsung.
That aside, in 1983 a number of my friends' parents in my village still owned large-screen black and white sets - colour wasn't as common as you'd think even then.
Posted by: @cathovisor....still owned large-screen black and white sets - colour wasn't as common as you'd think even then.
That is very true, even in the late 80's when I worked at the CO-OP, there were still the occasional black and white rental's around.
I can remember specifically a very nice elderly couple who actually had a T185 and returning it back to them after it was repaired. Their old house is still there down Staion Road in Whittlesey, but I somehow sadly doubt if they are. They would be well over 100 years old now if they were.
Looking forward to seeing progress with your set Jamie. 👍
To understand the black art of electronics is to understand witchcraft. Andrew.
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