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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
1977 Pye CT450 : G11 Chassis
I've been after a Pye CT450 for ages and finally thanks to this forum I have one
A nice drive up the motorway to a place called Staindrop and the set was mine.
I also called in to see birthday boy Crusty and got to see his superb collection of early colour tellies. Nice to see you again Chris.
Drove home along the A66/67/685/M6 and witnessed a magnificent sunset over the lakes.
A good day all round
Best regards
Mike
Switch it off and replace that main smoothing cap
Did the sets have the bad green capacitors in the line output stage.
It looks in good condition, inside and out.
Frank
Frank
Switch it off and replace that main smoothing cap
Seconded !
The set looks very clean and in good condition it would be a shame to blow the tube neck off!
Rich.
Hi Mike
That's a nice example you have there.
We had mostly Philips G11 sets before t then we started getting the pye version. In my humble opinion the pye had a better button but the only weakness was the tiny fixing screws that held the front control panel on used to loosen as the plastic fixings would crumble.
They had a dark rosewood version that looked really classy .
As has been mentioned do change that smoothing cap as soon as you can .
Regards.
Gary.
Switch it off and replace that main smoothing cap
Seconded !
The set looks very clean and in good condition it would be a shame to blow the tube neck off!
Rich.
Thirded!! Also go over the line and timbase boards (especially around the field chip) for dry joints.
Watch out for that green line output stage tuning cap too! If that goes open circuit, the EHT will rise alarmingly and the resulting flashover could be disastrous.
Tas
I have just removed the power & line timebase boards for inspection and to replace the old 470uf cap.
There were some dodgy looking joints on the large wire wound resistors on the power board
Fortunately Tas, no green meanies on the timebase board
I've gone over the timebase board re-flowing the transformers and any other suspicious joints.. I'll refit them tomorrow and take it from there.
Thanks for all your comments and tips
Best regards
Mike
There is one component on there I suggest you change (it was an official change by Philips). The yellow cap in the centre top just above the large coil.....I think it marked 9n1 2000V. Should be changed for one of the block types....same value and voltage but more reliable. The 'rounded' type fitted tended to fail causing increased EHT and possible damage to the tube.
Feb 79 old cap dated.
I spent last night removing all the panels and going over any dry joints - there weren't that many.
The cap mentioned by Sideband (C3135 0.91uf) was replaced, along with the main smoothing cap and the 47uf 250V (C4040).
I also had to remove the front control panel to clean the volume pot.
I'm really pleased with this set, I think it has seen very little use, the tube has excellent emission and it is a really clean example.
Best regards
Mike
Hi Mike
What a beauty , now you've done the replacement caps and joints your set will run for years .
My parents had a 26" Philips version which ran for 10 years after I soldered all the joints up .
Regards.
Gary.
That's a nice set you have there Mike and it works well too . and the pye versions are quite good to look at as well .
Cheers
Neil.
Very impressive Mike.
Looks like you've landed yourself a cracking set there.
Marc.
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