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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
Yesterday I received three new TV's for the collection. Before I get into that firstly, many thanks go to John for giving them passage when he collected his own two new additions. 12-hours of driving is a phenomenal trek to do in one day. Secondly, my warm thanks to Neil for offering them up for sale and getting soaking wet, assisting John loading them into the car.
Now the TVs
Well you probably all know by now my main passion is Thorn and especially Ferguson. Also, for a long while, I've been after finding a Teletext TV to use with my IMOGen teletext generator. I've a couple of Teletext set-top boxes, but not a TV with text built in. So combining Thorn, Ferguson and Teletext, I decided long ago I would dearly love a 1982 Stereo TX, though finding one proved very difficult. A few years pass by, the planets align, I find Neil has two and is prepared to let them go, yipee!!
Set #1
You wait for one, then two come along, quite remarkable. The first is a 1982 22" Ferguson badged 37063 complete with original remote, but minus its stand. Luckily I had in stock a near perfect stand, the Ferguson now sits on that. Accompanying it underneath, a Ferguson 3V29, I really do want to find a 3V31 though.
Set #2
The second Stereo TX is virtually identical, but is the rental version. To all intents and purposes still a 37063, but John informs me supplied via Radio Rentals, D|E|R etc, was known as the T6083, it also has a darker front. There was no remote nor stand for this one. I managed to find on e-bay one or two remotes though 🤣. Again no original stand with it or in stock, but I do have a couple of standard frame stands with teak cross-members in the stores, which will suffice. Currently, it's sitting on the stockroom bench, waiting to be moved into the display shop.
I much prefer the light grey finish to the front of the Ferguson, compared to the darker left and right of the rental version, just my personal preference.
Set #3
Third and final set, I fancied something different from what I normally collect, and that is in the form of a 22" Bush BC6378A. It's the much rarer 'Arena' version, I'm not certain, but I think this must be around 1976/1977. Funny thing is, after exactly 10-years, the TV has come back home to the N.E. as originally it was a TV from Stan's collection.
It features an ultrasonic remote, though the remote is missing. I have some ultrasonic remotes in stock from the likes of Philips and Thorn, no idea, but do they all use the same frequency? The chassis is a T20A, which I'd not ever seen before, but upon opening up it looks very muck like the Z718 I have in my 1975 SABA T4610.
The Bush did not come with a stand, but I had in stock a lovely Chrome pedestal stand. I was saving this for the Bush CTV-1120, but thought for now I'd put the BC6378A on it, I may well end up just putting it on a standard Cross member frame stand, we shall see.
I'll start individual repair threads in the appropriate sections for these TVs shortly, I'll also be getting back to the recalcitrant G6.
I've some more interesting items arriving shortly, some shop related and something winging its way from the United States which should be fun, for now that's it.
Hope that was of interest and if you got this far, thanks for reading.
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Whenever I see a T20, I think "check the 910 Ohm resistor"...
Posted by: @cathovisorWhenever I see a T20, I think "check the 910 Ohm resistor"...
I always think "Some so and so's pinched the tweaking stick"
I left the RBM dealership I worked for just before the Z178 appeared and have only seen a couple of T20s but the 910 ohm doesn’t ring any bells. I won’t give the game away in case it’s faulty in Cris’s set but one low value resistor sticks in my mind where the PSU would start up but not run. Think slightly along the lines of the Thorn 9800, took me a little while to suss it out.
John.
Posted by: @jayceebeeI won’t give the game away in case it’s faulty in Cris’s set but one low value resistor sticks in my mind where the PSU would start up but not run.
Would that be 5R8 the 1 Ohm small wire-wound resistor in series with the base of the line output transistor. I've read It corrodes and goes o/c or high resistance.
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The 1 ohm resistor was originally a half what carbon composition type. Never had it go O/C but it raised to around 10 ohms, alerted the switching waveform for the line output transistor and kept it switch on too long, the BU208? then failed. Only ever had it once, any set I repaired after that I checked the resistor, invariably it was high but not sufficient to damage the transistor. It was always replaced with something more suitable.
Later sets could have been W/W but I didn’t see any.
Frank
The RBM looks like it is brand new. Very nice !
To understand the black art of electronics is to understand witchcraft. Andrew.
Posted by: @crustytvWould that be 5R8 the 1 Ohm small wire-wound resistor in series with the base of the line output transistor. I've read It corrodes and goes o/c or high resistance.
That’s the fella, wirewound which failed o/c. 👍
So what faults did the 910ohm give?
John.
Posted by: @jayceebeeSo what faults did the 910ohm give?
Picture Jitter?
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Posted by: @pye625The RBM looks like it is brand new. Very nice !
Most of the sets that came out of Stan's stable, normally are, I've never had a rough one. Neil has also done a sterling job storing it safely whilst in his care, likewise the two Stereo TXs, I'm over the moon with yesterdays haul.
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I have seen, but never worked upon a T20A. Aside from the above mentioned resistors and possibly reforming PSU electrolytics, I wonder if there are any additional special checks that need to be made before powering up a T20A?
It almost looks as if you could just fire it up and expect a perfect working set.... But we all know that looks can deceive.
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Posted by: @crustytvThe second Stereo TX is virtually identical, but is the rental version. To all intents and purposes still a 37063, but John informs me supplied via Radio Rentals, D|E|R etc, was known as the T6083, it also has a darker front.
It's actually a 6083M, checking with the Thorn Oracle (John), that means it was a Multibroadcast rental set. The badge had been removed, perhaps due to resale? Fortune has it that I have a stock of various badges, among them was a Multibroadcast one, it's now on the TV.
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Very nice, I'll look forward to seeing some blog entries on these.
The TX100 brings back good memories, had one as our daily for many years along with a Ferguson top loading ? stereo VCR which i don't recall the model.
Sorry Stephen, they're TX10's and I might be wrong, but there were only front-loading Ferguson stereo (3V31/3V32) VCRs.
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Yes the Ferguson 3V31/32 were front loading machines, the 3V32 being the LP version, I liked the 3V32, same mechanism as the very reliable and well built 3V23 but with the advantage (?) of LP, as tapes were expensive then, ideal for watch and wipe.
Posted by: @freya.. had one as our daily for many years along with a Ferguson top loading ? stereo VCR which i don't recall the model.
There was a top loading linear stereo model but never released as a Ferguson as far as I’m aware. This was the Thorn rental model 8940 broadly based on the Ferguson 3V30.
John.
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