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DangerMan · 25th Jul 2016, 2:07 am

An interesting thread this.

I recall the Bush TV125 that my parents bought brand new, which was soon converted to receive BBC2 with a manufacturers kit (with a valve type PC88/86 tuner), and I also recall the TV125U which I obtained not that many years afterwards as a gift from someone "to use for parts".

Mine had an almost useless CRT (which, oddly, was the original Mullard one) but a germanium based (AF186) factory fitted UHF tuner and a PC97 based VHF tuner (the old chap's one being a PCC89 one).

After I fitted a replacement second hand crt to mine it easily outran the old fella's set for gain on all bands, which was a problem for me as that was still the family telly, even though he'd spent a small fortune on replacement tuner valves :-(
(We did live towards the fringe area for Sutton Coldfield.)

Yep, we ended up making a swap.

Ironically, it wasn't the duff crt that had caused mine to be given away as parts, but the plastic "wand" in the VHF tuner which had snapped causing loss of all VHF channels. Easily cured using a biro spring and a bit of coax braiding soldered to keep it all in place.

25th Jul 2016, 2:07 am	#123
DangerMan Heptode Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, UK. Posts: 719	Re: Earliest BBC2 Sets? An interesting thread this. I recall the Bush TV125 that my parents bought brand new, which was soon converted to receive BBC2 with a manufacturers kit (with a valve type PC88/86 tuner), and I also recall the TV125U which I obtained not that many years afterwards as a gift from someone "to use for parts". Mine had an almost useless CRT (which, oddly, was the original Mullard one) but a germanium based (AF186) factory fitted UHF tuner and a PC97 based VHF tuner (the old chap's one being a PCC89 one). After I fitted a replacement second hand crt to mine it easily outran the old fella's set for gain on all bands, which was a problem for me as that was still the family telly, even though he'd spent a small fortune on replacement tuner valves :-( (We did live towards the fringe area for Sutton Coldfield.) Yep, we ended up making a swap. Ironically, it wasn't the duff crt that had caused mine to be given away as parts, but the plastic "wand" in the VHF tuner which had snapped causing loss of all VHF channels. Easily cured using a biro spring and a bit of coax braiding soldered to keep it all in place. Last edited by DangerMan; 25th Jul 2016 at 2:12 am.