GEC 405 Line Factory 1960 - UK Vintage Radio Repair and Restoration Discussion Forum

electronicskip · 5th Jul 2022, 6:20 pm

After watching the British Relay tv youtube film, another film popped up on my list to watch .
Its the GEC TV factory in 1960 assembling 405 line TVs.
Quite an interesting watch also .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGzu7vpowHY

Rich Woods · 6th Jul 2022, 5:10 pm

Cracking film. Nice to see the BT302/3 sets being assembled.

Cobaltblue · 6th Jul 2022, 5:54 pm

This was sent out a s DVD to BVWS members back in 2006

It also had the Bush factory

You can see other DVD's here.

https://www.bvws.org.uk/publications/bulletins/dvds.php

Cheers

Mike T

Heatercathodeshort · 7th Jul 2022, 11:03 am

A great deal of care was taken with the design and build of the BT302 series. It was very reliable with only a very few stock faults. The hard cased capacitors held up fairly well. Even the Mazda [GEC labelled] tube seemed to last longer in the GEC compared with the Ekco, Murphy and Ultra models. J.

Rich Woods · 8th Jul 2022, 5:10 pm

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Originally Posted by Heatercathodeshort

A great deal of care was taken with the design and build of the BT302 series. It was very reliable with only a very few stock faults. The hard cased capacitors held up fairly well. Even the Mazda [GEC labelled] tube seemed to last longer in the GEC compared with the Ekco, Murphy and Ultra models. J.

Very true, and a nice layout to work on too. Back in the early 70’s when I was a 405 line obsessed kid, I had a BT303 fringe area set. I was amazed that I could pull in a good picture on YTV from Emley Moor on a dipole stood indoors in a large bottle, when I couldn’t get anything on a standard 405 line set other than Anglia and BBC1 from Belmont. I remember being disappointed when Belmont switched to YTV in 1974 as I lost my second ITV.

I’ve got a BT302 now but it has a couple of faults I need to look at, distorted sound and saturation of the picture when you turn up the contrast. Any ideas of thoughts to the possible culprits would be appreciated.

5th Jul 2022, 6:20 pm	#1
electronicskip Nonode Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Gloucester, Glos. UK. Posts: 2,150	GEC 405 Line Factory 1960 After watching the British Relay tv youtube film, another film popped up on my list to watch . Its the GEC TV factory in 1960 assembling 405 line TVs. Quite an interesting watch also . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGzu7vpowHY __________________ Oh I've had that for years dear!!

6th Jul 2022, 5:10 pm	#2
Rich Woods Pentode Join Date: Sep 2017 Location: Ceredigion, Wales, UK. Posts: 248	Re: GEC 405 Line Factory 1960 Cracking film. Nice to see the BT302/3 sets being assembled.

6th Jul 2022, 5:54 pm	#3
Cobaltblue Moderator Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Exeter, Devon and Poole, Dorset UK. Posts: 6,866	Re: GEC 405 Line Factory 1960 This was sent out a s DVD to BVWS members back in 2006 It also had the Bush factory You can see other DVD's here. https://www.bvws.org.uk/publications/bulletins/dvds.php Cheers Mike T __________________ Invisible airwaves crackle with life or at least they used to Mike T BVWS member. www.cossor.co.uk

7th Jul 2022, 11:03 am	#4
Heatercathodeshort Dekatron Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Warnham, West Sussex. 10 miles south of DORKING. Posts: 9,147	Re: GEC 405 Line Factory 1960 A great deal of care was taken with the design and build of the BT302 series. It was very reliable with only a very few stock faults. The hard cased capacitors held up fairly well. Even the Mazda [GEC labelled] tube seemed to last longer in the GEC compared with the Ekco, Murphy and Ultra models. J.