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22nd Dec 2013, 7:43 am | #21 |
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Re: Vintage Australian Televisions.
Hi all & thanks for your interest. I got the Westinghouse cleaned up & repaired this morning It had a Brightness issue now resolved. It was working rough when I bought it home but had some arcing & soon lost brightness. I cleaned the PCB with metho, repaired the HT cup, replaced a tube & she lives. That's three, only 47 to go...lol
The Philips is also named "Magnolia" The Healing is branded "Colorado 23" Also see post #21 Can you post a pic of your TR-836 I'd love to see it. Hope this helps. Doug |
22nd Dec 2013, 12:46 pm | #22 |
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Re: Vintage Australian Televisions.
I like the little Westinghouse, the model number is W1147. That's why I collect model numbers - to verify these sorts of details! It is a badge engineered version of the AWA P1 portable. The blue ones must have been popular as it is seen much more often than the cream and maroon versions.
AWA also sold these under the Electrice brand with a model number E1147. I've attached a couple of pictures of my Philips TR836. This set was literally a barn find, it came from a hay shed! The C1 chassis looks tiny when fitted in this big case. I do like this case style with the all timber look. Even the CRT surround is timber. |
23rd Dec 2013, 6:37 am | #23 |
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Re: Vintage Australian Televisions.
Wow! big difference inside, mine is full being the tube version. Yours looks empty by comparison. Both look identical outside, Mine came from an old farm house too. It had been used as a hallway table hidden under a table cloth for about 35 years. Mine had mice living in it...
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27th Dec 2013, 4:40 pm | #24 |
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Re: Vintage Australian Televisions.
This looks like a all transistorised mono chassis. Looking at the board its not unlike that found in the 320 chassis from the early 1970's.
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21st Jan 2014, 8:02 am | #25 |
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1967 Astor R11P-7
Hi All,
I was given this as an 18th Birthday present from my dad, who found it online. It's a 1967 Astor R11P-7 11" portable television. It uses a VHF tuner for Ch 0-11 +5A, as well as around 11 tubes. It's fully working, though I'll check it through for potential faults later on. In my eyes, the Astor R11P-7 is one of Australia's most iconic 1960s televisions. It's a very well made set with a beautiful timber cabinet, chrome and brass trim, and a perforated metal speaker grille. Apparently, these are one of the two most common 1960s valve portables in Australia - the other being the (in)famous AWA P1 series. However, neither of these are exactly easy to get, and show up very seldom. Anyways, I've attached some photos below. Chris |
21st Jan 2014, 11:55 am | #26 | |
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Re: Vintage Australian Televisions.
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I shouldn't complain though, as there is a lot of awesome old sets that show up around here too - I just have to get out and search curbside rubbish and dumps a lot more! Today's search yielded a 1984 Sony Trinitron KV-1430AS - photo below, along with photos of some of my other recent finds! The dump operators here are quite nice fellows, and usually let me take a vintage television if I spot one. One guy at the local dump even helps me dig them out and load them into my ute! Doug, are you a member of the Australian "Vintage Radio forums", run by Brad in Sydney? Some of your photos look familiar. Chris |
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21st Jan 2014, 1:41 pm | #27 |
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Re: 1967 Astor R11P-7
Australia's poshest looking portable! The polished wood and gold finish make it look like a minature of a full-size set.
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21st Jan 2014, 2:04 pm | #28 |
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Re: 1967 Astor R11P-7
It does look very regal indeed, especially since it's sitting next to an El Cheapo 1980s B&W Tempest (Big W I think?) portable!
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21st Jan 2014, 5:36 pm | #29 |
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Re: 1967 Astor R11P-7
Nice styling!
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24th Jan 2014, 3:30 pm | #30 |
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Re: Vintage Australian Televisions.
British TV sets usually did not have mains transformers. The valve heaters were wired in series, with a resistor to drop the excess voltage; and the feed to the half-wave HT rectifier was taken straight from the mains.
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