Golborne Vintage Radio

(06-08-2012, 05:11 PM)Steve_P Wrote: [ -> ]Good, you've come over to the dark side, where engineers regularly make fun of each other and leave charged capacitors lying about...

Seriously though, snip the capacitor across the mains (Mark will tell you why) and as you are a beginner I'll allow you to wind it up gently on a variac.


Good luck...

Cheers,

Steve P.

Sir Sidney is being genteel with you Fred! Mains caps on a tellie.......... loud bang! especially when you have your head in the cabinet!

once experienced never forgotten.


cheers Mark

If you think about a set like this in blocks ie power suppy /sound stage/timebase/video. they are not that bad.
if you look at the circuit you will be amazed at how little there is.
even compaired to some multi band radios,
also you have a display that tells you wich part of the set is faulty ie line across the screen head for the frame stage.
no sound and blank rasta = tuner or first if stage. ect
this does not apply to later dual standard or 625 line uhf sets.
dont be scared of 405 line tv's even i could repair them.
rob t

Hmm!! just spotted this, very unusual for one to turn up on Ebay though.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/290755357875?s...K:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649#ht_500wt_1361