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I know I know, but if it comes to life and firing on full cylinders then I am pleased. At…

Woah, hang on there! If you reread my response, nowhere did I suggest you said you were an expert, I…

I did not say I was an expert, I did not leave it outside or make it rain, I just…

Hi, The tape format this machine requires is V2000. NOT Betamax or VHS. A niche format that never caught on…

I have just found this model outside someone’s house and asked if I can have it. Dried it out and…

Surprising what high voltages and heat can do to materials. Presume the plastic type was changed to a more stable…

HI Freddo, ex DER here 1974 with a few company name changes with mergers until the end of Boxclever in…

Worked for DER from 1973 to 1985 having attended their Accelerated training course in Plumstead. Many stories to tell. We…

Anyone recognise the set being demonstrated in the photo at the top of the article? I think know most of…

We didn’t sell these sets, the picture couldn’t compete with the Japanese sets although the Hitachi and Toshiba cost more,…

We were accredited dealers but I have no idea if they had to be purchased. We didn’t have the slides,…

Once I get my act together and get the rest of the slides filmed, there are lots of slides of…

Never knew about the slides but we had the records and literature where I worked. Wonder if accredited RBM dealers…

Correct, looks to be the later Mk3 version with the quadrupler. No GY501 but still had the Xray generating PD500.

The photo of the colour TV chassis looks very like the CTV25 they introduced in 1967.

The cabinet designs are of their time and the technology available, interesting to see the developments especially in CRT design…

I still have the 8500 (Marconi) my parents bought new in I think 1973. We rented a Decca 2230 from…

Hi Chris, I think this is what I am using, an early version that I installed well over a year…

It’s based on Peter Kwan’s VBIT2, all your questions will be answered by these two links Peters Wiki https://github.com/peterkvt80/vbit2/wiki Simplified…

Hi Chris, Now I have finished painting the house I hope to get back into the workshop to do a…

Hi Hamid, yes indeed, the Roadstar’s freeview tuner still works.

It’s good to see someone else using the Raspberry Pi to generate teletext. It’s great fun – you can spend…

I liked those gimmicky flappy tuner paddles to be honest. For its era, it made them look a bit more…

A family member Rented the Murphy V 2423 between 1974 to 1979 and although this set had the poor A774…

I liked the G11, true early models suffered from a few problems some design some let down by poor components.…

My second favourite tv the first the G8

Thanks, Wayne, it has been an interesting project.

“IMOGen there’s no Teletext, it’s easy if you try…” Fab work there, Chris!

When I was at school in England in the late 1960s/early 1970s I was nuts about radio and got my…

How’s it going Wayne? Hope all is well. It wasn’t my intention to fall out with you, hope to have…

Hi, The Philips machines are 2020 and 2022. Nothing later.The Grundig ones are some early ones a few later ones…

Hi Bill, I understand, still I think you will be hard-pressed to find anyone willing to purchase 20 machines, let…

I have over 20 various machines so it would be quite an effort selling and packing for ebay. I would…

Excellent memorabilia! I see a TX9 in brilliant white, wish mine was like that and not cream!

Hi, if you’ve had enough of it all, why not just stick them all on eBay?

I have lots of v2000 machines Phillips 2022s and grundig various right up to the 2 speed one.I have a…

A bit late but my dad John Rice worked for Trafalgar tv back in the 50s 60s.

I’d never seen that Kenny Everett ad before! I remember my Mother trading in a very old upright Hoover for…

Now then Graham longtime back enjoyed BR Special services what you up to now

what a fabulous collection, i only have a little collection of seven working black and white tv’s,

I’ve got quite a few of the items mentioned in the autumn 69 price list.

🙂

This HAS to be the plot of a Doctor Who episode!

Forgot just how much was shoehorned in there. Pity there was no embedded music on this. The stripper would have…

Yes, Mk5 badged Sharp, reliable but not particularly good picture as I remember.

There was a redifusion portable, can’t remember the model without looking for the service manual, that was just a badged…

That Scotch Videotape Skeleton looks a tad sinister there!

I bought a 22 inch Rediffusion TVRM Mark 4 Manual Colour Tv in the Summer of 1984 and was disappointed…

Well said Chris. You’ve done fantastically without any formal training. I was in the trade for 40 years and still…

Hi Sterling P, Thank you for your very kind and considered correction and the heart-warming insult at the end of…

“It was used for all the signal processing components with the exception of the phase-detector transformer and contained within a 10 pin…

I’ve been seeing more and more ICs fail on 70s colour sets, the increased risk of arcing and flashover on…

Correct, I recently checked the GEC Mc Michael brochure for 1983, and this TV was listed. Thanks for the kick…

A very interesting article.

I’ll have to see if I can manufacture some scratch- N-sniff cards to send out

I love this place! One thing you unfortunately can’t experience through the internet (yet!) is the warm electronics smell that…

I like the new addition of the “Vintage television shop” a lot better with the photos to match the description…

“Ease of servicing: Very accessible” Er…. for a Philips G6?!

Hi Chris, the Saba looks good in its new home next to the Grundig they’ll be able to have a…

Crikey, that’s a bit of nostalgia which brings back memories: we also bought cheap from the chap just inside the…

These sets are interesting but I am also interested in slightly earlier GEC teletext sets. Nice to see something that…

Hello, do you know where I can buy the Leak Point One stereo owner’s manual like the one shown here?…

Hi Trevor, yes the UK-wide charging infrastructure is no way ready and as more people have moved over, the number…

Hi Interesting write up Chris. Obviously it works for you but unfortunately wouldn’t for me. I do more miles than…

Super condition! Whilst working at Multibroadcast,we had many of these out on rental. Good reliable sets, but those FST tubes…

I serviced a few of these during my time at Multibroadcast. Height/Frame faults were very common on this chassis. Even…

I had one of these many years ago. No idea what happened to it. it was the Viking emblem that…

I remember you Steve Webb. I worked as a Receptionist at Shirley, Chelmsley, Alum rock and then New Street.

Hi, My name is Gordon Hathaway. I was one of the founding members of the Decca Bradford design team under…

Fantastic website , couldn’t get by without it . I’m learning all the time . So intersting , thank you…

I still have a 3V43, bought reconditioned from Rumbelows back in 1993. I changed the belts and the upper drum…

A former neighbour and family friend (sadly now deceased) used to work at Osram-GEC in Wembley. He had a GEC…

“…I have onlyyyyyyyyy….. 23 inches of Pye set!”

I’m wondering if this a little earlier as it has the 4th channel button labelled as ITV2 rather than Channel…

The bigger TX sets seemed to be common as prizes on 1980s game shows. Usually to show they were a…

My memories of Radio Rentals was in Sunderland in Walworth Way { now the bridges ) and the worksop was…

The 8750 was a rebadged model made I believe Korting a German manufacturer. As a service engineer with Radio Rentals…

Thanks again. Learning a lot here

Many thanks John

Actually an 8744 did turn up on the forum a little while back so there could still be the odd…

There has been the odd 8132/3 turn up on eBay but I’ve never seen a 8734 or it’s D.E.R. version…

I think I have just found it delving further into your pages. Baird Model 8132 – looks spot on 22″…

Hi Adam, sounds like you are talking about the 8132 or 8133 if it’s 22″ or 8142/3 if 26″. Lovely…

Really interesting to know. Many thanks, and looking forward to John’s wisdom on that 80’s model. Thanks again.

Hi, if you look at the brochure rental prices above, you will see the 8734 listed. A 3-month initial advance…

Could anyone tell me the year the Baird 8734 became available? I remember my family having one through the seventies…

I always had an interest in radio and tv, I was born in 1959, so I was around from having…

I have one or two of these magazines, they are probably around the early 80s. I know the one focuses…

My Mum and Dad rented the Marconiphone 4713 version of this set back in 1974 . Overall, the picture quality…

Sold out long ago, a once great and productive nation, now a shadow of its former self, in more ways…

where has the British hi-fi makers gone

Easy to use to decipher tropical fish capacitors, thankyou.

I used to work for DER in the North West happy days and giant and very heavy colour television sets…

Hi Tom, I’d be really interested in talking to you about your experience working at Bairds ctv factory.

they were a high-quality British firm Ferguson up there with Sony and Sharp etc

I worked for DER in the early 1980s, I saw the introduction of the 8930 video recorder (basically a rebadged…

Just think Britain use to produce things like this

I came to live in Bishop Auckland in 1972 and immediately got a job at the rediffusion plant at St…

Nice GEC Hitachi when I first saw this I thought it was a genuine old GEC bit disappointed to find…

The 1600s caught fire because of dry joints in the line stage (line linearity coil) arcing. this set fire to…