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8th Aug 2016, 12:52 am
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Octode
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Watford, Hertfordshire, UK.
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Name the Telly
I was watching a usual excellent public transport film on Youtube and it showed a lost property office with a telly!
It is here:- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fx_l...#t=1857.837369 The telly appears at 18:07. The film is very nostalgic for me and I guess any other members of the Forum about my age, shows how much in control of our lives we were then as apposed to the control freak times we now live in. I had to smile at the lads enjoying a cigarette on the train  But it's the telly, any ideas? Possibly in someones collection? Is it still unclaimed in the lost property 
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8th Aug 2016, 1:14 am
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Heptode
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Location: Kinver, Staffordshire, UK.
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Re: Name the Telly
The television is a GEC BT1091 from 1949.
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8th Aug 2016, 10:05 am
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Dekatron
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Location: Charmouth, Dorset, UK.
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Re: Name the Telly
Yep, even I recognised that one although I didn't know the model no.
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8th Aug 2016, 10:11 am
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Rest in Peace
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Re: Name the Telly
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It's interesting that someone managed to lose a TV in 1961, unless it was a bit of poetic licence from the director. 
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8th Aug 2016, 6:01 pm
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Octode
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Re: Name the Telly
Thanks for the info, the set looks very late 50's or early 60's and I was rather surprised to see it was from 1949. The pictures I have found for it seem to show the TV as being not very deep with respect to the 9" screen. From a technical aspect it looks quite intriguing.
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8th Aug 2016, 6:47 pm
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Re: Name the Telly
Perhaps it was the store keepers telly? 'Dropped off the back of a train'
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13th Aug 2016, 10:53 am
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Dekatron
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Warnham, West Sussex. 10 miles south of DORKING.
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Re: Name the Telly
This must be the heaviest 9" table model ever! The Bakelite cabinet is very thin and I would imagine that many were shattered either in transport or service departments.
First GEC receiver to employ flyback EHT. It has a massive mains transformer for Heaters/HT. Big problem with the 9" flat faced GEC tube. Not many with any emission left today. They suffer from developing a low resistance heater and O/C cathode. Capable of superb pictures when working correctly. This one is so flat [not O/C cathode] you have to turn all room lights off and then wait a few moments for your eyes to get accustomed to the darkness. A faint shadowy picture can then be seen. I expect a tube will turn up one day. I could fit any 9" tube with mods but the mechanical aspect can be a problem. John. |
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14th Aug 2016, 9:54 am
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Dekatron
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Charmouth, Dorset, UK.
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Re: Name the Telly
There was a Philips similar in shape that weighed a ton as well, 663a? can't rember but it had two HVR2 EHT rectifiers and a huge mains transformer like the GEC.
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