Welcome to my Vintage Colour Television collection.

Below you will find a simple gallery, providing a quick view of the TV’s. Further down the page you will find more detailed blog reports. These TVs are all work in progress, as I find time to get around to the repairs, the blogs get updated.

Detailed TV Repair Blogs

VCR Collection & Repair Blogs

Back in the 70’s there was a revolution going on in the living room not only with the advances in Colour television technology but also with the introduction of Ceefax ( Teletext) and the video recorder.

VCR repair is not something I’ve dabbled with before but having recently found myself acquiring a number of recorders, Its an area I’m venturing into as they will be a great compliment to my early colour TV’s above. I’ve managed to acquire a couple of N1500’s N1700’s, some early VHS and a nice example of a Betamax.

Below you can see what’s in the collection and follow the repair blogs as I attempt to bring them all back to health. I’ve also documented some of the repairs on our YouTube channel.

Video Disc Players

My other related repairs

Vintage PCB Repairs

Back in the hey day of TV repair, while most folk were looking for their new TV, in the back room busy engineers were fixing yesterdays failed boards returned by the field engineers. This is another area I enjoy PCB board refurbishment, especially important now as you can no longer ring up a supplier or scan through ‘Television’s ‘ classifieds and order up a replacement. Nowadays its very important to find, fix and reuse anything you can find as spare parts are starting to become in short supply. Most boards even broken ones can be repaired, I recently had a very badly damaged Ferguson 3712 on the bench. Its CRT PCB would by most folk be considered beyond repair, with no replacement it was necessary to effect a repair otherwise the set would be a non starter.

• Boards
• Thorn PSU
• 3000 Video module revert from thick film
• Thorn tuner repair 

Vintage Ceefax (Teletext Decoder) Repairs

As mentioned above in the 70’s there was a revolution going on in the living room the introduction of Ceefax ( Teletext) being a very significant one. Announced in October 1972 and following test transmissions in 1972–74, the Ceefax system went live on 23 September 1974 with thirty pages of information.

Developed by BBC engineers who were working on ways of providing televisual subtitles for the deaf, it was the first teletext system in the world.These set top decoders are very thin on the ground but I have a couple of example one is working the other requiring repair.

• Radofin decoder information to be added
• Labgear decoder information to be added
• Tifax data in site library

More info on Teletext and Decoders see link below

Ceefax (Teletext)

Black & White TV’s

Before I moved over the colour TV repair I used collect and repair black and white televisions. I amassed quite a collection varying from 1948 up to around 1968. From 9″ screens to 23″ covering 405 single standard all the way to dual standard and 625 single standard. I have disposed of most, just three now remain in the collection, A TV22, TV125U and a Murphy V230.

• 1963 Bush TV125CU
• TV22
• Murphy V230
• 405-Line TV’s I used to own