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slidertogrid · 28th May 2006, 9:32 am

One of the "Engineers" (I use the term loosely!) in our workshop used to draw an arc from the Pl top cap to light his fag, the bodges that went on were horrendous and included all sorts of ways of getting the last out of the tube, using glue to repair arcing LOPTS and Triplers, the old BRC open type triplers were taken apart and repaired! That said it kept sets going that would have otherwise been beyond economic repair , A term these days applied to most TV s etc on the first fault occuring! I think the days of C E are probably numbered ! ?

28th May 2006, 9:32 am	#15
slidertogrid Octode Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, UK. Posts: 1,898	Re: The art of coarse engineering One of the "Engineers" (I use the term loosely!) in our workshop used to draw an arc from the Pl top cap to light his fag, the bodges that went on were horrendous and included all sorts of ways of getting the last out of the tube, using glue to repair arcing LOPTS and Triplers, the old BRC open type triplers were taken apart and repaired! That said it kept sets going that would have otherwise been beyond economic repair , A term these days applied to most TV s etc on the first fault occuring! I think the days of C E are probably numbered ! ?