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Old 13th Jun 2021, 12:24 pm   #4
slidertogrid
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Default Re: TELETON VX1110 12" Hybrid.

Wow ! I haven't seen one of these since the early eighties ! We had loads of the 20" ones at work with the metal woodgrain painted cabinets, they were used as decontrolled rentals left over from the 'colour boon' years.
Pinnacle used to supply the valves. By the late 70's the sets were being disposed off as they came back as the service manager was trying to reduce the amount of special valves kept in stock so these and the Emo sets had to go...
I bought a portable Teleton from a customer that had been written off as the tube was sparking in the neck. I asked the chap who did our re-guns if he would do it and he said that he would so long as I accepted the risk that the phosphors may have deteriorated.
Anyway it was fine. I sold the set to a mate's brother for a bedroom set.
Portable sets were very sought after back then!

Rich.
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