Vintage Westinghouse BW TV is full of TOOBS

This is dam near as old as I am

[@danmackintosh6325]

Dave, surely you mean Vacuum filled transistor bulbs? (Dragan McShnarselaverlar asked me to ask you). ;) Also, that looks to be in nice shape from the first couple of minutes I've watched. Nice save but, wot, no rat faeces? At least it should be a simple fix if it needs anything at all to work.

[@shadabhusain6895]

I am from india, best work

[@DrewskisBrews]

It looks like the vertical output tube is gassy ("gone to air"). The getter has turned from metallic black/silver to milky brown. EDIT: I reviewed that part of the video, and what I saw might just have been dust on the outside.

[@tennesseecherokee]

Hey Dave….man, I’ve been watching & learning from you for several years. I really enjoy watching you tackle these sets from the 60’s & 70’s. I’m very thankful for you passing on your knowledge. I do hope you revisit this old portable B&W tv. I was born in ‘57 & I have several vintage/antique pieces of electronic stuff. Again,thank you~

[@michaelturner4457]

Vacuum bulbs 😂

[@tomj4506]

Remember them well. Known for slipping wafers in VHF tuner & shorted yokes on hoz winding. A small step above GE. The color sets were real trash ! LFOD !

[@doogie812]

If you can hear the vertical oscillator running with no deflection it is likely the vertical output secondary is open. You might get lucky and find a cold solder joint between the yoke and transformer.

[@mjg263]

Back in the early 1990’s I worked in a facility here in NJ that made satellite parts. The production supervisor there told me that from the mid 60’s into the early 70’s he was in charge of the production line for the Westinghouse TV assembly plant here in NJ and they built portable b&w tube sets for Westinghouse. He said they were cut-rate sets built to a low price point and they had a lot of QC issues, in fact he was moved over to the quality control division to get the reject numbers down. I’ll bet that set came out of the very same NJ factory and I wouldn’t be surprised if he was involved with its assembly and testing. He did tell me they were using a wave soldering process so the sets would have used circuit boards. Neat to see an old set like this, they used to be everywhere BITD.

[@robinsattahip2376]

Very basic, but no one was using that TV to collect personal information about you.

[@12voltvids]

Nobody collecting personal information about me on my TV either.

[@robinsattahip2376]

I have an modern Android TV, the fist time you plug it in it asks for information. Of course you can use a fake name but you have to write it down to remember it. @@12voltvids

[@12voltvids]

Can't you skip the login?

[@waynesharp1690]

I wouldn't say it's that basic myself. Pretty neat how you tune VHF/UHF.

[@crashbandicoot4everr]

Hey Dave. I have a 1966 Westinghouse tube set, one of the first TVs for the Greek market (220V, 625 line CCIR standard). What I find unusual about it is the fact it uses banana plugs for the antenna. Can I somehow make an adapter for the standard European "Belling Lee" connector and feed a signal from a VCR?

[@jeffadams5510]

Can't wait for part two!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@12voltvids]

Soon. I hope.

[@jefferyb304]

I have a 17 inch RCA B&W set from 1973. It's at least nearly all tube. It has quite a few. I think some recapping is in order. The set plays but is finicky.

[@jcurnutte2007]

It does have a UHF tuner you just put the VHF tuner to the UHF position (which is a window that shows the UHF dial and turn the fine tuning control and it has two speeds (fine and coarse) some Admiral sets of that era were set up that way

[@12voltvids]

I believe i showed that.

[@markanderson350]

You are hearing the laminations in the transformer buzzing. I would ohm out yoke and follow back the traces to the transformer if it tests good. Maybe a winding in the transformer too. Not much left to check. I fixed tons of tvs as a teenager back then.

[@12voltvids]

Could be the yoke or very transformer. The buzz is coming through the speaker though as if i turn down the volume also gees down. I'll did up a schematic. These were cheap sets back in the day. Westinghouse was probably just using up inventory in these because solid state sets had already hit the market by this time. I had a 12" solid state Hitachi made around this time when i was a kid. It was probably made in 67, and i currently have a 65 GE (made by Sony) solid state tv that still works in my storage unit.

[@markanderson350]

@@12voltvids well that changes things quite a bit. There is a buzz that comes grom detected audio but ut varies with the video and ac hum but it sounds smooth Vertical is a sawtooth so it sounds kind of buzzy

[@joshhoman]

Interesting. I took apart a tube TV when I was little, a Montgomery Ward Airline.

[@12voltvids]

I used to fix tons of them then one day they were all gone.

[@jcurnutte2007]

And some of those were instant on and that causes wear on the CRT filament

[@12voltvids]

Actually it didn't. Keeping the filament warm actually extended it's life substantially.

[@markmarkofkane8167]

Looks 60's or early 70's. I have a Zenith B&W tube 19 inch portable manufactured 1970. It was given to me. Picture tube was very tired. I haven't turned it on since the 80's.

[@12voltvids]

66 according to the guy that gave it to me.

[@jcurnutte2007]

And those tubes are called compactron

[@12voltvids]

Yes before the miniature toobs

[@jcurnutte2007]

Channeling your inner shango

[@simonlevett4776]

?

[@gmcnewlook]

@@simonlevett4776he’s a guy in California on KZbin that works on TVs like this (and random old junk he doesn’t touch the modern stuff that much )

[@12voltvids]

Myself I am more into the recent vintage gear. Yes I can work on tubes as that's what i trained on initially but tube gear was quickly going away so i saw less and less. By 86 i saw no more tube gear except a few stereos and guitar amps.

[@lawrencecavens5760]

If you can Dave - try and locate the Serial number - The first number will be the year and second and third digits will be the month of when this unit was Manufactured...

[@eddys.3524]

At least the handle is time-period correct... LOL

[@Tech_481]

I have that exact same TV in the antique gold set! Mine works great thankfully. I purchased it on marketplace for $5. Also my set has a fancy leather strap so idk how the orginal owners managed to break that lol.

[@12voltvids]

This one hopefully will work again . Depends on what's wrong. If it's a bad yoke or vert output trany that could be a problem.

[@buriedbits6027]

You have worked on two tubes. I remember a small Sony, tiny color one that you said was a fixture on your bench and you I also recall a simple fix to a large color tube where you replaced one cap and boom, it worked.

[@12voltvids]

I have fixed thousands of CRT TV's. Just not many all tube sets in years.

[@chetpomeroy1399]

I remember seeing sets like this when I was a kid. These 60's B&W sets are pretty safe to work on as far as X-radiation exposure goes, but I've heard the early color roundies emit carcinogenic levels of ionizing X-radiation.

[@12voltvids]

Bw sets also throw a ton of x-rays. Not as much as the early color sets but more than modern color crt. they had no hv regulation. At least the color sets had a shunt regulator. Set that was designed for 110v would really spew xrays If run on 120

[@chetpomeroy1399]

@@12voltvids It's safe to say that you'll not likely develop any form of tissue sarcoma as a result of working on this set, though. Having a Geiger counter and adjusting its sensitivity around such a set would likely display some interesting results.

[@catsbyondrepair]

7:33 danger mode engaged