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Originally Posted by Oliver35
I'd not restored a TV before, and bought a little Ferguson for £25 locally
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Hi Oliver, the Cossor was my first restoration project too, but as I was a TV repair tech from 1971 to 1990 I wasn't without experience!
I never encountered a set with a round CRT, ion trap, or an energised loudspeaker during my day job, those attributes alone endeared the Cossor 916 to me.
An even better set of the same vintage would have been the HMV 1805
Why? Because it's the set that entertained me for the first six years of my existence, and it's got mains derived EHT!
The Aurora is a nice piece of kit but it's not the only way
With a PC you have unlimited access to digital video files, and something like Vidblaster adds a mixer telecines flying spot scanners, telerecording monoscopes, caption generators, etc. etc. All virtual of course, but no less convincing on the screen of your old set.