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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
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1971 Beovision 3200
1971 Bush CTV1120
1977 22" Ferguson 3734 - Thorn 9600 - SYCLOPS
Thanks to Mike ( Mikeystep) being a true gent, unbeknown to me nabbed me a Thorn 9600 back in Oct 2014, today one of his workmates dropped it off. This further enhances my Thorn stable. I very nice example too.
Won't be getting around to this just yet but have just catalogued it on my collection section for those that are interested.
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That looks like a nice example there, Chris.
By the time you get this far, you're getting into fairly modern kit, and less to go wrong....
Marion
That looks like a nice example there, Chris.
Marion
Certainly does just need find a 4000, 8000 now.
By the time you get this far, you're getting into fairly modern kit, and less to go wrong....
Marion
Wish I'd know that when I tackled the 8500, 9000 & 9905
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If there was an Ultra-badged version of the 9600, I remember one of my aunts renting one...
By the time you get this far, you're getting into fairly modern kit, and less to go wrong....
MarionWish I'd know that when I tackled the 8500, 9000 & 9905
Hi Chris,
That's why I chose my smilies very carefully.......
Marion
IIRC, "The Young Ones" had one of these in their living room. Well, several. It used to get smashed or destroyed in some other way every week.
The 9600 is the one, a beautifully over engineered creation, and surprisingly reliable too. Just check out that heatsink at the rear of the timebase/power board. You can see it is something special.
There was another Ferguson set that used the same plastic cabinet, the 9800, awful thing. Souped up 8800.
Till Eulenspiegel.
If there was an Ultra-badged version of the 9600, I remember one of my aunts renting one...
Hi Mike,
There was.
I knew my data cataloguing might come in handy one day. As we know Thorn used "6" as a prefix for their ultra badged models, see here for those that are unfamiliar with the prefixes.
So knowing that, we just need to search the chassis guide here for entries in the single standard colour section.
This gives us two possibilities for an 9600 Ultra, the 22" 6735 or the 26" 6775 don't suppose you remember the screen size.
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TCE did make Ultra sets fitted with both the 9600 and 9800 chassis. Ultra became the wholesaler brand after the Marconi brand was dropped.
Till Eulenspiegel.
If there was an Ultra-badged version of the 9600, I remember one of my aunts renting one...
Hi Mike,
There was.
I knew my data cataloguing might come in handy one day. As we know Thorn used "6" as a prefix for their ultra badged models, see here for those that are unfamiliar with the prefixes.
So knowing that, we just need to search the chassis guide here for entries in the single standard colour section.
This gives us two possibilities for an 9600 Ultra, the 22" 6735 or the 26" 6775 don't suppose you remember the screen size.
22", and I seem to remember it having touch-tuning?
Badge engineering at it's best. No differences whatsoever between 3735 and 6735. Same goes for the 3749/6749 and 3745/6745.
At least ten years earlier the manufactures did attempt to make TV sets which were sold under various brand names look different. But to be honest by the end of the seventies the buying public couldn't care less either!
That's one of the reasons why I have no interest in the later stuff. Think about the cynical marketing policies of the manufactures as well.
Till Eulenspiegel.
Whilst waiting for some parts for the Decca, I was curious to see what would happen when I powered on this Fergy, would it work in some fashion.
After a visual inspection which revealed a really good, fairly clean example, I plugged it in. The speaker made a pop and crackle, the edges of the CRT seemed to light then go out leaving the set with a channel indicator lit, guess it tripped then. Powered cycled there was just the pop in the speaker as it powered up, no channel indicator this time though.
I have three excellent Thorn manuals which will be studied.
I like the addition of the diagnostic ports TSA ( Scanning) & TSB (Power Supply) to see if the expected voltages are present. At least I can try to narrow the fault down as the set can be operated with any of the daughter boards removed. Along with removing the supply rail fuses to isolate the fault/trip condition should be found. Sounds like a bit of Déjà vu without the rust
Some photos of the various boards :-
Lets hope the fun and games I had with old "One-eye" on the 9000 and 9905 before, are not quite repeated on this one. Well maybe just a little, they are after all good lessons and an education is what I'm after at the end of the day, not a plug it in and work set.
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suprised to see that polyester film capacitor in the dead pile
It had gone open circuit, no signs of any moisture ingress though, unlike the ITTs
Best regards
Mike
Not surprised to see the Blue Meanies and the RIFA but the toffee's!!! Like Stephen that is a surprise.
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I have only once had to change one of that type of polyester cap and that was because one of the legs had corroded and snapped off.
Rob T
I have to replace quite a few of those Mylar dipped types in various sets over the years, ranging from leaky, O/C, thermally unstable and even just plain old faulty in some otherwise strange way.
I have only ever seen those red dip types fail where they carry a lot of AC currant and pulses such as in the frame output stage in a VGA CRT screen where they split open and let out grey goo that goes hard as it cools.
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