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Heatercathodeshort · 31st Oct 2017, 7:24 pm

I experienced many quite incredible bodges as you can imagine over my many years in the trade.

I was called to repair an elderly gentleman's current receiver at that time, I guess around 1966.

When I had finished he proudly showed me his method of clearing a heater cathode short on his original Ekco TS114 that he was using as a second receiver.

He had rigged up an old fashioned door bell with the striker positioned on the base of the CRM121B by way of a made up bracket. A battery was connected via a bell push he had screwed to the side of the console cabinet.

When the short occurred he pressed the button resulting in the vibrations temporarily clearing the short. That was typical of the make do and mend approach of his generation and I must admit I admired it. John.

31st Oct 2017, 7:24 pm	#26
Heatercathodeshort Dekatron Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Warnham, West Sussex. 10 miles south of DORKING. Posts: 9,147	Re: Thought this might amuse you... I experienced many quite incredible bodges as you can imagine over my many years in the trade. I was called to repair an elderly gentleman's current receiver at that time, I guess around 1966. When I had finished he proudly showed me his method of clearing a heater cathode short on his original Ekco TS114 that he was using as a second receiver. He had rigged up an old fashioned door bell with the striker positioned on the base of the CRM121B by way of a made up bracket. A battery was connected via a bell push he had screwed to the side of the console cabinet. When the short occurred he pressed the button resulting in the vibrations temporarily clearing the short. That was typical of the make do and mend approach of his generation and I must admit I admired it. John.