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13th Oct 2007, 7:19 pm | #1 |
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Another Philips 17TG100U saved
Hello All.
I undertook a hideous car journey – two and a half hours to do 22 miles - from North London to South London to collect this…but that’s another story! Upon collection I noticed that it even came complete with its mains lead with a 5A two pin plug on the end. It was somewhat tatty and pretty dirty though with a dead fly trapped between the implosion screen and the tube face but ho-hum, it was cheap enough. I took it round to my mate Mike’s house in Norfolk (where he has a huge collection of old radios, a Thorn 1500 mono TV and an ITT CVC9) as he was interested in watching me on the first bit of restoration of an old telly and he has a variac too rather than use my lamp limiter! When I got round to tackling it, it first had a damn good clean inside and I checked for anything odd. I noticed some rather 1970’s looking resistors and a 1970’s style replacement boost capacitor but the repairs were very neat. Not all the valves were original Philips “miniwatt” types like in my Stella. So there were signs of a fairly long usage. As usual I changed the mains filter capacitor before I did anything else and then with fingers crossed gradually applied power. There were no signs of distress and after what seemed like ages of winding the volts up we got to 190V and the line timebase burst into life and very shortly after a small raster appeared on screen. We couldn’t believe that with so little effort we had a working set from 1960. The Aurora was applied and a fair picture came up. That was so far. Today, Mikey405 popped in on his way back from acquiring an old Panasonic VCR for his ever growing collection and after demonstrating it, I asked him to give us a hand to remove the CRT from the telly in order to get the dead fly out and the other muck on the screen. This went without a hitch and at the same time the cabinet, control knobs and escutcheon were given a deep clean and polish. The picture was still a bit flat, looking as if the interference limiter was advanced too far (it wasn’t, it was up one end) so I thought about checking the very high value resistors in that part of the circuit but before I did that I thought it was worth a punt to change the EF80 video output valve and what a difference that made. Now lovely and contrasty! The tube’s a corker as well. What good luck! And that is all I had to do to it. I hope you like the pictures. By the way, the picture is pin sharp but the photos weren’t!?? One day I’ll get the hang of operating this camera properly.
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13th Oct 2007, 7:23 pm | #2 |
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Re: Another Philips 17TG100U saved
Here's some more pictures. Also just like the Drifters song "Like Sister and Brother", here are Stella and Philip side by side
Cheers,
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All the very best, Tas Last edited by Tazman1966; 13th Oct 2007 at 7:37 pm. |
13th Oct 2007, 9:18 pm | #3 |
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Location: 1966-1976 Coverack in Cornwall and Helston Cornwall. 1976-present Bristol/Bath area.
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Re: Another Philips 17TG100U saved
What a pleasing sight to see two such sets of this age giving such a good account of themselves. In fact they are the same age as me and look in a lot better condition than me.
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