Re: Alba TC1525 G6 Dual Standard.
Same here - As a teenager I bought a '502 for £60 around 1976. As you say, a baptism of fire. After a lot of head scratching as to why there was very little EHT, I looked at another set and discovered the boost capacitor was missing - I'd assumed it was on the paxolin board in the tower as per manual, when in fact it was on the side of the chassis - or wasn't! Replaced it and a great picture appeared. I gave it to my parents and they used it for years till the dreaded LOPT failure....
Turns out that Andrew in the shop (he's a bit younger than me though don't tell him) also learnt on a G6 - he bought one for only a few pounds some years later, but wasn't old enough to drive so he trundled it the two miles from one side of Bangor to his home at the other in a wheelbarrow! Sometimes I think we're all a bit nuts...
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