Wonder if there is anyone else over here that remembers the Thorn CRT tester/rejuvenator self build kit? Back in the delta gun days, sets were often mistakenly being brought in by field engineers, for soft CRTs. When in fact it was often the tripler at fault, especially those blue German skeleton ladder types (example below) used in the 3000/3500.
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Every field engineer was given an afternoon on the bench to build their own from a kit to carry out an emission test and rejuvenate both colour and mono CRTs. Does anyone still have an example or the kit instructions, I wonder? One did appear on eBay some years ago. Don't remember much about the design other than it used a BDX32 which was used as line output in the 8500.
John.
Hi John, sounds very intriguing, it would be good to see the circuit.
If one could be sourced, it might even be fun to build it, more so for those without a tester. They'd have a way to check emissions and have the ability to tickle their cathodes, without the need to fork out for a B&K et al.
What did it use as an indicator for emission, was it just a simple hook-up to your meter?
Were there any protection circuits to ensure the overzealous field tech did not strip the cathode bare?
There was a simple emission checker cct in Jan 1979 'Television', no ability to tickle.
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Our local RR had a B&K 467, which a tame engineer would "borrow" for us occasionally.
Hi Chris, fairly basic and certainly compact but a bit better than the Video Circuits model which was around at the time. Originally it was only possible to use with mono and delta CRTs but later the mono base was removed and the connector for the RCA PIL tube used in the 9000 was fitted. With the advent of other CRTs such as the AX51 and 30AX the workshop unit was replaced with the B&K467.
John.
I was hoping you may have had a copy. It will be interesting to see that document again, cheers👍
John.
Jim has scanned the Thorn manual for the tester, and submitted it via the upload service. 👍 I've just this second moved it to the data library. It can be found under 'test equipment', there is a Thorn folder.
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Thanks for that Jim, not quite as simple as I remembered but I was correct about the BDX32. Forgot about the emission test time limit also and I noticed it was Pat Pending, wonder if one was ever obtained?
John.
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