Good job, it works well! My mother worked at that Admiral factory in the early 1960's. CGE & Philips & Philco also had factories making Idiot Boxes back then in Toronto area. I used to have the 17" RCA & Motorola sets. I plan to set up my 1952 Electrohome up to do the same kind of thing..display & play some old time Movies etc once it's been gone over..
The vertical "line" on the screen is most often a line oscillator fault or line output gate drive circuitry. Either the line output tube is turning on too late or you have insufficient line drive. Drifting carbon resistors can cause this problem, even if they are still inside the tolerance. If the width is controlled using stabilisation feedback from the line transformer, check the high value resistors in the path. Either way, brilliant restoration job!
@@TerryMcKean - That was going to be my comment. Yes, that white vertical line was known as a "drive line" because there is too much horizontal drive signal going to the horizontal output tube. It causes the tube to begin conducting too early in the scan cycle, when the damper tube is still conducting, which is what produces the horizontal sweep from the left side of the screen to somewhere in the middle. The too-early output tube conduction causes the sweep to stop and actually reverse in the middle of the screen. This double sweep is what produces that line. The drive should be backed off until the line *just* disappears. That is the correct setting.
Regarding your final comments, it really is no miracle that such an old set can still receive & display signals. The original NTSC television standard was adopted and in use as long ago as the early 1940s. So any TV manufactured for that standard from that time on would work perfectly all the way up to the 2009 changeover to digital TV. And as you showed, compatible signals can still be had with standard video equipment. BTW, noticed a "drive line" in the picture, which indicates too much horizontal drive signal into the horizontal output tube. See if the set has a horizontal drive control and adjust it to the point where the line just completely disappears. good luck sir.
Love the power down effect on this one, picture collapsing to a point in the center of the screen. TV has a very sharp and bright picture. Looks like the CRT is still in good shape.
Wow, you have a ton of horiz compression and non linearity. That model will produce a perfectly linear and coherent picture when working properly. It could be a bad damper, but if it has a width coil, it might have a single shorted turn. It will show proper resistance but a shorted turn kills the Q and cause that compression right down the middle.
Quite interesting, if not fascinating, Jeff. You seem to be quite meticulous in your attention to the care and restoration of sets, as well as a bit knowledgeable. I appreciate that as my father was an electronics engineer and audio and television aficionado. It's great to find people like yourself with such and interest and skills to boot. I'd love to see your retro collection. All the best!
Terrific video ! I truly enjoy these old sets and kinda miss them and the analog TV too. I still have a 12 inch portable that was still working and receiving signals until the digital stuff came along. Thanks for taking us back down memory lane again.... Ed Allen~N4TYX Erwin, TN Age: 64
Another very well done video..As a kid, I often stared at the disappearing light ball in the center of the set when it was turned off. It reminded me of a rocket blasting off which was a big deal back then..LOL 73, Glenn WA4AOS dit dit
Why do we remember such things? :-) I went through similar abuse as a kid ... watching BW 19 inch TV. It would snap and pop and go down to the little ball in the middle and then disappear. Kids nowadays cannot have such fun. :-) 73 de KA4UDX.
Great video. Note the lack of a DC restorer circuit which makes "fades to black" into "fades to gray" Also the "electric blue" color temperature phosphors used in almost all B&W sets from the mid 50s on.
Very interesting and thoroughly analytical video! I noticed some distortion represented as a vertical bar on the screen. There may be some bad high-voltage capacitors contained somewhere in the deflection yoke. Those are a pain to get at.
The "wax covered paper capacitors" become leaky after several decades of existence, not necessarily use :D A really beautiful device in great condition that received a proper care.
There was a TV like this in my home when I was a child.One day I decided to open the back cover and noticed a connection in the back labeled "COLOR ADAPTOR INPUT"?????? obviously Color TV was years ahead....intriguing..
That high voltage probe gets itself fairly close to the dag when you remove/apply it. Careful on other sets with less clearance... (Though not likely to damage much, it may give you a fright) As others most likely stated colour was introduced in the US in 1954.
Those first color TV's sold for just over $1,000...roughly $10,000 in today's dollars! Only the wealthiest of households could afford them back then. As the 1960's approached, technology improved, production ramped up and competition increased, making color TV affordable to more and more households. The Muntz brand played an important role in making this happen. While the Muntz approach was bare-bones and not the absolute best TV receivers available at the time, it fulfilled a market need reliably and effectively...bringing the back-then, miracle of television into more working family's homes. But even as color TV's started to sell below the $500. mark, that was still a hell of a lot of money back then! Black & white TV's were becoming available for less than $100.00. Still a hefty chunk of change in the 1950's!
We had a Curtis Mathes with a line burnt into the CRT. you could see the line down the middle of the CRT with the TV turned off. my mom hated that TV with a passion and would never buy another Curtis Mathes again.
Go round up yourself a couple of the old digi to analog converter boxes and you can STILL watch OTA TV with "rabbit ears" ---assuming you have stations in range. I'm 74, and where I grew up the specific place we lived, could only get ONE station clearly, at that time CBS was channel 4. We could get 2, "very snowy," and 6 "almost unwatchable."
I have one I did everything I know to get the high voltage working replaced tube is there a cap that maybe I am missing I see a small circle of snow so I don’t have any high voltage any help would be appreciated thanks
The CT100 (1954 was a pretty good performer before it was recalled, but the later CTC 4 through 11 (the original vertical chassis beasts) were fabulous performers.
Ntsc color as someone started started in 1953. CBS color which was cancelled began in 1950. Commercial television in America began in 1941. It was put on hold during the war but the first commercial tv licenses were given out in 1941. I live in Philadelphia and what is now kyw tv was on the air back in 1941.
I'm new to tv repair but I'm curious u changed a picture tube and in I believe a 56 Hoffman easyvision and only half the picture is lit up. How to I balance it out? I'll send pictures id love to learn though.
what kind of resistors doesnt drift as you said carbon were doing? does all caps have been replaced by electrolytic or if there's a better long lasting definitive option such as those they use in computer motherboard "solid caps" nowadays?
All resistors can change value over time but modern thin-film resistors should not drift as much as the older carbon composite type. The only option for most large value/high voltage capacitors is electrolytic. Modern ones built by reputable vendors should have a longer life than the ones from 50+ years ago.
sometimes you can still get analog signals from Spanish stations, not sure if these stations are bought from FCC, atmospheric skip, or pirate TV stations but I have a few portable units from the 90's that were getting pictures as recent as 2013
I always wondered where or how did you find and purchase spare parts (capacitors, resistors or small vac tubes) after almost 60 years of their disappearance from market. My father purchased very fine Hungarian TV made by Tungsram in 1962. It was ORION Tisza AT 403. Extremely beautiful picture and fantastic sound. We had it for 20 years. Tungsram was taken by General Electric in 1992.
to get some spare parts, i personally explore abandonned houses on the country side, i do ensure myself to be in something that's really abandonned... and you can be really surprised of what you can find by people that had lived and passed over years ago. old tv set, old radio, old furnutures and appliances under some better shaped houses and other in a nasty, toxic or dangerous state. It's always fun to explore and find some treasures that are for other less than garbage.
I bought an old tv (1955 GE) I hooked up a panasonic VCR player via a cord connected to the rabbit ears. It played clear sound but still just a fuzzy screen ( no picture at all) Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated!
+Sistertubetime Non-functional components in the video circuit, no doubt. Could be bad caps, bad tube(s), shorted transformers or diodes, hard to say without some real diagnosis.
these equipments need some complete restoration as any car of that era would need to run just like a brand new one out of the dealer. there is no miracles.
Shouldn't the RF output of the VCR be connected to the TV ribbon antenna input via a "balun' like this www.jaycar.com.au/indoor-tv-balun-75-to-300-ohm/p/LT3022
Is that chassis Sheet Cooper? PC boards and tubes are a Bad combination; point to point is the way to go....a few Huffs of Contact Cleaner will give you a Good pick me up during those Long repair jobs.
I wouldn't say it was "in favor of digital television". It was more like those in charge were in favor of making more money. They didn't like the idea of the public receiving free television shows.
It's not normal. Some of those old timers actually had adjustments including a width control (coil). A bad part in the horiz drive, bad damper tube, or shorted winding in the width coil will cause that compression.
You would typically need a 75 to 300 ohm matching transformer and a piece of coax cable to connect the TV's 300 ohm antenna connection to a VCR's 75 ohm RF output connection.
Jeff Tranter Would cables like these do fine www.ebay.com/itm/NEW-6-Foot-Coax-Coaxial-Comcast-Time-Warner-UHF-AT-T-RF-75-Ohm-Black-TV-Cable-/331900271280?hash=item4d46cc3ab0:g:dLAAAOSwXeJXeoSn www.ebay.com/itm/AmerTac-Zenith-VN1001MTRW-Outdoor-300-Ohm-to-75-Ohm-Transformer-New-/381873856568?hash=item58e974a038:g:92sAAOSwEzxYRHti
I never liked them yellow capacitor replacements I always hated the color yellow. It doesn't matter that they can't be seen it's the principle of the thing.
He said he restored it but there's a few things wrong with it. The distortion at the top could simply be midadjustment, but there's also a compression going on in the middle of the screen. Bad parts, tubes, or adjustment. Not restored.
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+Synthematix Who "invented" television is a complex issue, variously attributed to Vladimir Zworykin, Philo Farnsworth, and John Baird. You can read all about it in various books and web sites.
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Good job, it works well! My mother worked at that Admiral factory in the early 1960's. CGE & Philips & Philco also had factories making Idiot Boxes back then in Toronto area. I used to have the 17" RCA & Motorola sets. I plan to set up my 1952 Electrohome up to do the same kind of thing..display & play some old time Movies etc once it's been gone over..
You have a great voice for this and you are very wise and have a lot of great descripting of what the dangers are. Thank you for this.
The vertical "line" on the screen is most often a line oscillator fault or line output gate drive circuitry. Either the line output tube is turning on too late or you have insufficient line drive. Drifting carbon resistors can cause this problem, even if they are still inside the tolerance. If the width is controlled using stabilisation feedback from the line transformer, check the high value resistors in the path. Either way, brilliant restoration job!
i thought that would cause a picture shifted to the right or in the case of low line drive,insufficient width...am i wrong?
.. either that or the horizontal-drive control on the back of the chassis is set too high...
@@TerryMcKean - That was going to be my comment. Yes, that white vertical line was known as a "drive line" because there is too much horizontal drive signal going to the horizontal output tube. It causes the tube to begin conducting too early in the scan cycle, when the damper tube is still conducting, which is what produces the horizontal sweep from the left side of the screen to somewhere in the middle. The too-early output tube conduction causes the sweep to stop and actually reverse in the middle of the screen. This double sweep is what produces that line. The drive should be backed off until the line *just* disappears. That is the correct setting.
@@Inflec Right on, Inflec.
Nice to see old Tvs work again
I want these old tvs back fuck 1080P High def TVs
Great video and you do a great job at explaining the details...Keep up this kind of work....We need to keep our history alive.
Regarding your final comments, it really is no miracle that such an old set can still receive & display signals. The original NTSC television standard was adopted and in use as long ago as the early 1940s. So any TV manufactured for that standard from that time on would work perfectly all the way up to the 2009 changeover to digital TV. And as you showed, compatible signals can still be had with standard video equipment. BTW, noticed a "drive line" in the picture, which indicates too much horizontal drive signal into the horizontal output tube. See if the set has a horizontal drive control and adjust it to the point where the line just completely disappears. good luck sir.
Nice. Brought memories of working on the old stuff, much like this, back in the day.
Always enjoy your videos! Extremely professional. I loved that you chose The Honeymooners too!
Love the power down effect on this one, picture collapsing to a point in the center of the screen. TV has a very sharp and bright picture. Looks like the CRT is still in good shape.
Wow, you have a ton of horiz compression and non linearity. That model will produce a perfectly linear and coherent picture when working properly. It could be a bad damper, but if it has a width coil, it might have a single shorted turn. It will show proper resistance but a shorted turn kills the Q and cause that compression right down the middle.
Great video, very instructive for beginners.
Quite interesting, if not fascinating, Jeff.
You seem to be quite meticulous in your attention to the care and restoration of sets, as well as a bit knowledgeable. I appreciate that as my father was an electronics engineer and audio and television aficionado. It's great to find people like yourself with such and interest and skills to boot. I'd love to see your retro collection. All the best!
Terrific video ! I truly enjoy these old sets and kinda miss them and the analog TV too. I still have a 12 inch portable that was still working and receiving signals until the digital stuff came along. Thanks for taking us back down memory lane again....
Ed Allen~N4TYX
Erwin, TN
Age: 64
I know I miss everything back then I just can not stand things of today I get so bored of it
Great TV show for that era 👍
Another very well done video..As a kid, I often stared at the disappearing light ball in the center of the set when it was turned off. It reminded me of a rocket blasting off which was a big deal back then..LOL
73,
Glenn WA4AOS dit dit
Why do we remember such things? :-) I went through similar abuse as a kid ... watching BW 19 inch TV. It would snap and pop and go down to the little ball in the middle and then disappear. Kids nowadays cannot have such fun. :-) 73 de KA4UDX.
Great job, congratulations.
You have a great and tidy way of documenting your work. Congrats, you have a new subscriber!
This TV is amazing, never seen something like this.
you can buy a digital converter box to pick up over the air stations, they used to sell a lot of them in 2009 during the transition
They actually gave away the converter boxes to all requesters. Funded by the proceeds from selling the the bandwidth, I suppose.
Good job and nice result,
Great video. Note the lack of a DC restorer circuit which makes "fades to black" into "fades to gray" Also the "electric blue" color temperature phosphors used in almost all B&W sets from the mid 50s on.
"Admiral: the television that won't go down the tubes."
- Paul Kinsey, July 1960, Sterling-Cooper Advertising
Admiral made a decent set using clever electronics and good cabinet work.
Also I love the Honeymooners lol.
Looks like my first tv. Channels we're 2-13 vhf. I now I started working on TVs in 67.
Amazing work
very cool, fun to learn about TV technology
Sorry, but I don't speak English very well. I love this video because I love the old TV. Congratulations
Excellent and very descriptive video. Gary
Nice video with with concise explanation.
I’ve seen many old TVs but so many are just ugly, or even spooky looking.
This is a good looking one.
📻🙂
Very interesting and thoroughly analytical video! I noticed some distortion represented as a vertical bar on the screen. There may be some bad high-voltage capacitors contained somewhere in the deflection yoke. Those are a pain to get at.
Actually, color was introduced in 1953, as well as the first color TV sets.
lol
YEA WERE OVER COLOR THEL B&B IS ON THE RAGE!
back then only New York City and Hollywood had Color TV
I though it was in the 60s
Nice job!
Marty McFly explains what a rerun is in 1955 in back to the future back then the only new tv set
The "wax covered paper capacitors" become leaky after several decades of existence, not necessarily use :D A really beautiful device in great condition that received a proper care.
There was a TV like this in my home when I was a child.One day I decided to open the back cover and noticed a connection in the back labeled "COLOR ADAPTOR INPUT"?????? obviously Color TV was years ahead....intriguing..
The 1960s were when colour TV became commonplace.
Congratulations
Nice work...great video!
That high voltage probe gets itself fairly close to the dag when you remove/apply it. Careful on other sets with less clearance... (Though not likely to damage much, it may give you a fright) As others most likely stated colour was introduced in the US in 1954.
I love the tvs in the 2000
My 1953 TV set played in the 1960s had two channel 11s. Its sound completely gave out in 1979.
Damn, whenever I see that clip of "The Honeymooner," all I can think about is Ed Norton saying, "Hello, ball."
The correct way to watch the Honeymooners - black and white
Very awesomely awesome! 😁.
color was introduced in 1954 not the early 60's
Those first color TV's sold for just over $1,000...roughly $10,000 in today's dollars! Only the wealthiest of households could afford them back then. As the 1960's approached, technology improved, production ramped up and competition increased, making color TV affordable to more and more households. The Muntz brand played an important role in making this happen. While the Muntz approach was bare-bones and not the absolute best TV receivers available at the time, it fulfilled a market need reliably and effectively...bringing the back-then, miracle of television into more working family's homes. But even as color TV's started to sell below the $500. mark, that was still a hell of a lot of money back then! Black & white TV's were becoming available for less than $100.00. Still a hefty chunk of change in the 1950's!
mwstaton64 CTC 100 15 inch probably Sept 51 or early 52 ctc4wasc1954 that was a CTC 1. There was a 2&3. 19in on the3
@@maverickdallas1004 And NBC was the only ones doing colour in the 1950s.
Wow, here (Brazil) it was in 70’ 😳
Uno de estos dias.....Pow! lol
Bien Hecho !
Nice job. We'll done.
Must be nice to have time whit out people worrying you to death thanks great video
This is a very nice looking TV.
AWESOME VIDEO!!!!!
I think this has put me off doing a black and white one a bit! As long as it's 4:3 that's enough for me!
Tv works great
Linda!🙌🙏
I like the copper chassis
interesting video, can i see your jukebox? i had a valve ami rowe back in the 80's loved working on it :)
See ruclips.net/video/_8hlP53b5UA/видео.html
We had a Curtis Mathes with a line burnt into the CRT. you could see the line down the middle of the CRT with the TV turned off. my mom hated that TV with a passion and would never buy another Curtis Mathes again.
Go round up yourself a couple of the old digi to analog converter boxes and you can STILL watch OTA TV with "rabbit ears" ---assuming you have stations in range. I'm 74, and where I grew up the specific place we lived, could only get ONE station clearly, at that time CBS was channel 4. We could get 2, "very snowy," and 6 "almost unwatchable."
One day when I get time I try to recap and see what that will do
I have one I did everything I know to get the high voltage working replaced tube is there a cap that maybe I am missing I see a small circle of snow so I don’t have any high voltage any help would be appreciated thanks
some televisions were in colour in the 50s, but they were premium sets.
You are correct. Some of my comments are probably more accurate for Canada where I live, rather than the US.
looks similar to the Zenith TV we had which was older than this model
Color came out in the late 50's. The RCA CTC 4 was a 1956 model, the CTC 5, 1957, great video though.
The CT100 (1954 was a pretty good performer before it was recalled, but the later CTC 4 through 11 (the original vertical chassis beasts) were fabulous performers.
Ntsc color as someone started started in 1953. CBS color which was cancelled began in 1950. Commercial television in America began in 1941. It was put on hold during the war but the first commercial tv licenses were given out in 1941. I live in Philadelphia and what is now kyw tv was on the air back in 1941.
I'm new to tv repair but I'm curious u changed a picture tube and in I believe a 56 Hoffman easyvision and only half the picture is lit up. How to I balance it out? I'll send pictures id love to learn though.
what kind of resistors doesnt drift as you said carbon were doing? does all caps have been replaced by electrolytic or if there's a better long lasting definitive option such as those they use in computer motherboard "solid caps" nowadays?
All resistors can change value over time but modern thin-film resistors should not drift as much as the older carbon composite type. The only option for most large value/high voltage capacitors is electrolytic. Modern ones built by reputable vendors should have a longer life than the ones from 50+ years ago.
Copper chassis oooohhhh. Decent tv in the day gold tuner contacts .
sometimes you can still get analog signals from Spanish stations, not sure if these stations are bought from FCC, atmospheric skip, or pirate TV stations but I have a few portable units from the 90's that were getting pictures as recent as 2013
Lindíssima
I always wondered where or how did you find and purchase spare parts (capacitors, resistors or small vac tubes) after almost 60 years of their disappearance from market. My father purchased very fine Hungarian TV made by Tungsram in 1962. It was ORION Tisza AT 403. Extremely beautiful picture and fantastic sound. We had it for 20 years. Tungsram was taken by General Electric in 1992.
to get some spare parts, i personally explore abandonned houses on the country side, i do ensure myself to be in something that's really abandonned... and you can be really surprised of what you can find by people that had lived and passed over years ago. old tv set, old radio, old furnutures and appliances under some better shaped houses and other in a nasty, toxic or dangerous state. It's always fun to explore and find some treasures that are for other less than garbage.
I bought an old tv (1955 GE) I hooked up a panasonic VCR player via a cord connected to the rabbit ears. It played clear sound but still just a fuzzy screen ( no picture at all) Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated!
+Sistertubetime Non-functional components in the video circuit, no doubt. Could be bad caps, bad tube(s), shorted transformers or diodes, hard to say without some real diagnosis.
these equipments need some complete restoration as any car of that era would need to run just like a brand new one out of the dealer. there is no miracles.
I have a General Electric CRT TV from the 50s and I am looking for someone to restore it for me? Is this a service you provide?
Unfortunately, no.
Shouldn't the RF output of the VCR be connected to the TV ribbon antenna input via a "balun' like this www.jaycar.com.au/indoor-tv-balun-75-to-300-ohm/p/LT3022
Yes, there was a balun at the VCR that isn't visible in the video.
Is that chassis Sheet Cooper? PC boards and tubes are a Bad combination; point to point is the way to go....a few Huffs of Contact Cleaner will give you a Good pick me up during those Long repair jobs.
UHF channels 14 to 83 channel 13 is a VHS slot.
Nice portable for '55.
commercial television was introduced on July the 1st 1941. It was interrupted by ww2 when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor.
Restoration or safety video? 3:26 is where the video should start.
It sounds like a bomb in a box
When ours don't work, Pa just spits in the back of it and whomps it.
It looks like your H.Drive is mis-adjusted by the drive bar showing on screen
Why the old condensers are not worn out.
that`s too bad.
I wouldn't say it was "in favor of digital television". It was more like those in charge were in favor of making more money. They didn't like the idea of the public receiving free television shows.
How come you can't get rid of the line in the middle ?
It's not normal. Some of those old timers actually had adjustments including a width control (coil). A bad part in the horiz drive, bad damper tube, or shorted winding in the width coil will cause that compression.
What kind of cables would I need to hook a tv like this up to a vcr
You would typically need a 75 to 300 ohm matching transformer and a piece of coax cable to connect the TV's 300 ohm antenna connection to a VCR's 75 ohm RF output connection.
Where would I find these cables at
Any place that sells electronics accesories for stereo and television, such as Lowes.
Jeff Tranter
Would cables like these do fine
www.ebay.com/itm/NEW-6-Foot-Coax-Coaxial-Comcast-Time-Warner-UHF-AT-T-RF-75-Ohm-Black-TV-Cable-/331900271280?hash=item4d46cc3ab0:g:dLAAAOSwXeJXeoSn
www.ebay.com/itm/AmerTac-Zenith-VN1001MTRW-Outdoor-300-Ohm-to-75-Ohm-Transformer-New-/381873856568?hash=item58e974a038:g:92sAAOSwEzxYRHti
Yes, those should work.
I want that
I never liked them yellow capacitor replacements I always hated the color yellow. It doesn't matter that they can't be seen it's the principle of the thing.
Whats with the distortion at the top of the screen?
He said he restored it but there's a few things wrong with it. The distortion at the top could simply be midadjustment, but there's also a compression going on in the middle of the screen. Bad parts, tubes, or adjustment. Not restored.
where can I find the cd with the test patterns
See techpreservation.com/dvddl/testdisc.htm
Ok thanks
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@@tommyb.6064 Which web site? I have several.
barkausen oscillation on the certer of screen
what about englands john logie baird?
+Synthematix Who "invented" television is a complex issue, variously attributed to Vladimir Zworykin, Philo Farnsworth, and John Baird. You can read all about it in various books and web sites.
Do you sell any
How many do you want? But seriously, the one I have is not for sale and in any case shipping would be very expensive,
Hello Ball
قديم تلفزيون 1955 اقتنه ترث
Old
WHY?
あなたはこんな出鱈目な話をでっちあげて、善良な人々を騙すのを止めなさい。未だ若いのだから、大学へ行き電子工学を初歩から真面目に学びなさい。きちんと学位を取り研鑽に励んでください。
Did you enjoy your made up story? You don't seem to have repaired this TV.
That is a little harsh. He is not a TV repairman. He made it work better but not perfect.