22-12-2017, 11:18 AM
Hi Brian.
I'm not sure I fully agree..... although I do see your reasoning.
The way I see it is if you do a modification and design it well all in the context of the era it can do no harm. if it is documented it of course can be reversed. I see no real difference in doing a well thought out modification or fitting modern polypropylene capacitors rather than the wax types or even hiding a modern component inside a wax cap outer covering.
We constantly talk of up coming collectors, I'd actually like to meet some of these people, collectors now rarely have sufficient technical know how to repair and restore these sets, we are a dying breed and there is very little new blood (young people) even interested.
Think back to the 40's right through to the 70's, we were awash with businesses selling parts, valves, kits, second hand military gear etc. This has gone, even the weekly Military Auctions at Lanark market have stopped. In the main prices have tumbled other than a few items its gone.
Think of the number of 50's cars that have been fitted with Ford Sierra 5 speed gearboxes or with electronic ignition and modern solid state fuel pumps rather than unreliable SU contact type pumps.
I got terrible abuse on VRAT when I fitted a Jellypot to a TV22....... Why? its my set and mine to do as I wish, I could chop it up for bits if I wished. I think we need to be realistic and to draw young ones into the hobby we have to realise that this stuff is old and to keep it running we may need to introduce parts that are more modern (which we do with caps, resistors, PVC wiring etc) and if that means LOPT substitution then fair enough. We either have a TV working or one languishing on the shelf doing nothing.
To my mind a mod like fitting an electrostatic focussed tube replacing a magnetic duff one is sensible to do especially when its a 14 inch that are like rocking horse poo, same with LOPT's.
This has to be the individuals choice don't you agree?
I'm not sure I fully agree..... although I do see your reasoning.
The way I see it is if you do a modification and design it well all in the context of the era it can do no harm. if it is documented it of course can be reversed. I see no real difference in doing a well thought out modification or fitting modern polypropylene capacitors rather than the wax types or even hiding a modern component inside a wax cap outer covering.
We constantly talk of up coming collectors, I'd actually like to meet some of these people, collectors now rarely have sufficient technical know how to repair and restore these sets, we are a dying breed and there is very little new blood (young people) even interested.
Think back to the 40's right through to the 70's, we were awash with businesses selling parts, valves, kits, second hand military gear etc. This has gone, even the weekly Military Auctions at Lanark market have stopped. In the main prices have tumbled other than a few items its gone.
Think of the number of 50's cars that have been fitted with Ford Sierra 5 speed gearboxes or with electronic ignition and modern solid state fuel pumps rather than unreliable SU contact type pumps.
I got terrible abuse on VRAT when I fitted a Jellypot to a TV22....... Why? its my set and mine to do as I wish, I could chop it up for bits if I wished. I think we need to be realistic and to draw young ones into the hobby we have to realise that this stuff is old and to keep it running we may need to introduce parts that are more modern (which we do with caps, resistors, PVC wiring etc) and if that means LOPT substitution then fair enough. We either have a TV working or one languishing on the shelf doing nothing.
To my mind a mod like fitting an electrostatic focussed tube replacing a magnetic duff one is sensible to do especially when its a 14 inch that are like rocking horse poo, same with LOPT's.
This has to be the individuals choice don't you agree?
