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Old 9th Apr 2020, 9:25 am   #41
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When I was about 12 and becoming interested in tape machines my Dad brought home a duff Cossor 1035 scope and told me to see if I could mend it - it was an O/C resistor in the EHT bleeder chain which I realised when I discovered that the 2kV EHT cap was still charged up after two days - health and safety? Hadn`t been invented in those days.
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Old 9th Apr 2020, 2:26 pm   #42
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Could this be a Philips 26" K70?
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I think so, but the slightly earlier version with the "rounder" tube (A63-120X I think) and the rather twee magazine rack...
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Certainly looks like a K70. I don't recall the one Robert mentions.

Another Giles fan!
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The interesting thing here is the aerial lead. Note it passes through an oversize hole in the door frame then UP to the aerial! The detail is amazing. John.
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First, I'm surprised at age 13 you were allowed to "play-around" with televisions by your parents. Hadn't they heard of the dangerous high voltages present in televisions? Especially EHT
I don't think that was particularly unusual- I'm sure if you asked most of us that have always been passionate about fixing TV's, many would have started at that sort of age!

I certainly did- and was given total freedom and encouragement by my father, who was well aware of the risks. My bedroom was crammed with anything electrical or TV related. Many 405 line TV's- all live chassis designs of course! Either given to me or found in ditches and dragged back in the wheel barrow! I built a complete electrical distribution system for my bedroom using 'salvaged' three phase switchgear & vintage sockets.

I would have been about 12 or 13 when I repaired my first TV- a Murphy V410.

I consider myself extremely fortunate to have had such freedom- and do consider it amazing!

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Old 9th Apr 2020, 11:57 pm   #47
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I don't think that was particularly unusual- I'm sure if you asked most of us that have always been passionate about fixing TV's, many would have started at that sort of age!

I certainly did- and was given total freedom and encouragement by my father, who was well aware of the risks.
Maybe it wasn't clear that my statement was a bit tongue in cheek, that is parents can hear bad things, and over-react and be too protective, especially if they don't have any real understanding, they just listen to the scaremongering. My parents didn't know anything about electronics, heard that televisions were "very dangerous" and that was that.

I think anyone who had more informed parents were very lucky. That was the point I intended to make.
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Maybe it wasn't clear that my statement was a bit tongue in cheek, that is parents can hear bad things, and over-react and be too protective, especially if they don't have any real understanding, they just listen to the scaremongering. My parents didn't know anything about electronics, heard that televisions were "very dangerous" and that was that.

I think anyone who had more informed parents were very lucky. That was the point I intended to make.
Out of interest, what would be the reactions on here if a self-admitted 13-year-old posted on this forum that he had acquired a 1950s TV with a fault that was clearly in the line-output stage and asking for advice on repairing it?

Luckily, my own son never had such tendencies, so the problem didn't arise for me, but if it had I might have had to do some very hard thinking (even though I myself did such things at that age). I would have been very torn!

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I think so, but the slightly earlier version with the "rounder" tube (A63-120X I think) and the rather twee magazine rack...
As a kid I thought that the feature under the actual set was the base for a cat bed. Needed covering with an old blanket for feline comfort.
I suppose that magazines could be stored there.
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I don't think that was particularly unusual- I'm sure if you asked most of us that have always been passionate about fixing TV's, many would have started at that sort of age!

I certainly did- and was given total freedom and encouragement by my father, who was well aware of the risks. My bedroom was crammed with anything electrical or TV related. Many 405 line TV's- all live chassis designs of course! Either given to me or found in ditches and dragged back in the wheel barrow! I built a complete electrical distribution system for my bedroom using 'salvaged' three phase switchgear & vintage sockets.

I would have been about 12 or 13 when I repaired my first TV- a Murphy V410.

I consider myself extremely fortunate to have had such freedom- and do consider it amazing!

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I think i started mucking around with radiograms and old TVs when i was about 13 or 14.
Used to badger the local TV shop for old TVs they discarded and take them home to tinker with.
My mum just used to moan about the mess in my bedroom but that was about it really.
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I remember playing with the innards of my grandfather's discarded TV in my bedroom, I remember the house where that bedroom was, and we left there in 1961 when I was just 6. I do remember other electrically hazardous activities in that bedroom, one of which was to see what happened if I touched the glowing bar of the electric fire with rolled-up newspaper!

By the time I was 13 I was building valve amplifiers on the kitchen table using the contents of several boxes given to me by a family friend who'd been interested in radio for years and was emigrating.
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Has any one got a copy or can find a copy of the Giles Cartoon, about the 1970 Baker Street Bank Robbery, it depicts the mythical Baker Street Police Station Canteen till being robbed by crooks equipped with what looks like a PYE B44.

I have searched for it for years on the net, with no success, I was once told that all press reference to the safety Deposit Raid, in question was subject to a Government D Notice until recently.

As for the kids, with Valve TV`s posting, Like many Forum members, I was born in the mid 50`s and as kids then we were not subjected to the same `Elf and Safety` culture. I built my first 2 valve TRF radio aged about 13, and then accidently put my fingers on the terminals of the smoothing cap (no bleeder resi), so I suppose then we all learnt safety the hard way, after leaving school at 16, I spent the next 30 years in the TV Trade, we all had many a belt from EHT supplies, but the current was very low, so you would be unlucky to suffer serious injury.

I think the worse belt I ever had was the Mains across the heart (pre RCD Days), that floored me I can tell you. My fault, I had not observed the golden rule, keep one hand behind you. ( In mitigation, I was working in Soho`s Greek St, repairing a set in a premises that specialised in providing entertainment for the discerning Gent, I was distracted from my task by a attractive young female Artist, without a stitch on) . Happy Days !

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