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16th Oct 2020, 2:59 pm | #1 |
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Decca TV with roller shutter doors ?
Chatting with some mates ( in our virtual pub ) over a pint or two last night, we got talking about what tellies were in our homes when we were kids.
I said we had a telly with roller shutter doors, but I don't think they completely believed me. Well, I'm sure we had a Decca, with the controls on top, and a pair of roller shutter doors to hide the screen. Was there such a set, and when would I have been watching it ?. Cheers, Buzby |
16th Oct 2020, 3:11 pm | #2 |
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16th Oct 2020, 3:52 pm | #3 |
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Re: Decca TV with roller shutter doors ?
There have been a variety of manufacturers who produced tv sets with sliding doors. I have seen lots and worked on quite a lot in the past. Philco did a 405 line set, then there are the dual standard sets incuding Philips G6 versions, followed by 625 line sets. Decca had a version of the 'Bradford' or 30 chassis with sliding doors. Probably a Dynatron model had the feature as well.
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16th Oct 2020, 4:26 pm | #4 |
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Re: Decca TV with roller shutter doors ?
It was definately a Decca, and the doors rolled back, not folded, I wondered where they went. It was on thin legs, with little round feet.
Does anyone have a picture of whatever set it might be ? |
16th Oct 2020, 4:35 pm | #5 |
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Re: Decca TV with roller shutter doors ?
Tambour doors. They slide into circular grooves in the cabinet top and bottom.
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16th Oct 2020, 4:44 pm | #6 |
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Re: Decca TV with roller shutter doors ?
Sounds to me very much like the Decca DM45 - which has the controls under a flap on the top and that all-important roller shutter door:
https://www.radios-tv.co.uk/communit...-dm45/paged/5/ Hope that helps! Steve |
16th Oct 2020, 4:44 pm | #7 |
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Re: Decca TV with roller shutter doors ?
Decca made some with distinctive speaker grilles - like my DM45 with FM radio, an
unusual tripod stand that allowed the set to rotate through 45 degrees ; http://thevalvepage.com/tvmanu/decca/decca.htm (crossed with Steve) |
16th Oct 2020, 4:58 pm | #8 |
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Re: Decca TV with roller shutter doors ?
I don't know the set at all. But I agree they are called tambour doors.
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16th Oct 2020, 5:36 pm | #9 |
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Re: Decca TV with roller shutter doors ?
That DM45 looks like the one. ( I'd forgotten it only had three legs !. )
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16th Oct 2020, 7:03 pm | #10 |
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Re: Decca TV with roller shutter doors ?
Great model, apart from the Wima capacitors! Lots of lovely frame faults. I used to work on these regularly. Good cabinet.
I actually still have one, stashed away at my son's in London, waiting for me to collect it & refurbish it. Problem is, I've no more room! I need to smuggle it in... David. |
16th Oct 2020, 7:06 pm | #11 |
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Re: Decca TV with roller shutter doors ?
The first TV we had was a tambour door Decca in September 1956 . viz
DM4C 17" full height console with doors and VHF-FM Radio Descriptor form radiomuseum site. It stood on four splayed "contemporary" legs. It had a noisy front end which produced a rather grainy picture. We persisted with the local tv store and they exchanged it for a 17" EKCO table model with VHF radio feature which had a grain free picture and lasted us 10 years. Had to provide our own "contemporary" legs though!
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17th Oct 2020, 4:24 pm | #12 |
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Re: Decca TV with roller shutter doors ?
When my gran came to stay with us in her latter years she was accompanied by this lovely Decca offering with the Tambour doors.(model 555 )
It had a push pull amp ,shared between the record player and radio, so the TV effectively had bass and treble controls ! It sounded excellent on both Andy |
20th Oct 2020, 10:05 pm | #13 |
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Re: Decca TV with roller shutter doors ?
I Know it's been suggested already, but the Decca DM45 came to my mind.
In about 1961, I had a job at Decca's in Battersea, and it was my job to do the first test on the un-tubed chassis straight from the production line. This entailed a few resistance checks with an AVO8 followed by a live mains test including peaking the I.F. coils, again using the AVO, to peak some voltages somewhere. I had to put an aerial plug into the set which carried some rf markers and BBC tv. Most days the sound of 'My Friend The Witch Doctor' filled the air, I think it must have been a BBC test transmission. Luckily, I either liked, or got to like, that song. One day, it was raining as I recall, I completed my resistance checks and plugged the chassis in, completed my list of voltage checks and reached for the aerial lead, taking a firm hold on the chassis and pushing in the coax plug. This caused a slight flexing of the paxolin panel which of course would be normal and harmless. Those of you who still have a DM45 will be able to see that if the production line had left the mains dropper rotated several degrees off spec, one of its mains live terminals could be waiting to contact with the coax socket. This left me with a firm grip on the chassis and the other hand firmly pushing the aerial plug. Wallop!!! When I seemingly eventually managed to let go, it was with such force that the back of my left hand hit the edge of the Dexion framework of the inter-bench conveyor system. I was given half an hour off, a cup of tea, two Asprins and a plaster, then back to the bench. Oh yes, I remember the DM45! Peter. |