Hello folks, you may remember Aker Veg-o-matic's tempermental olympic television, Troy. Well, veggie had him listed as free in the classifieds on this site for like six months until I couldn't stands it no more, so now I have him. He is in imaculate condition, however, it seems that he has already been to the restorers with few results. Here is a link as Troy is right now:
Okay, now Veggie tells me that the restorer replaced most of the caps, as well as the flyback and the yoke. After having pulled the chassis open, it appears that the flyback and yoke are new and clean enough looking compared to their surroundings to verify this. There are about five caps on this that haven't been replaced. One tube is missing and most of the tube shields are AWOL as well. What tubes are there are almost all replacements. CRT appears to be the original as it has the Olympic badge on it. Now, all this tv did for the restorer was to burn up a resistor when powered up. Running it up on the variac didn't burn anything, nor does anything on the chassis look burned. However, the variac soft start only produces a slight hum in the speakers (hey! it has two speakers!). I mostly fix radios, but I just had to try and save this one. I'm going to check this one out against my SAMS and see what I can see. Except for transformers and coils, I should have enough parts to get this one going. With so few caps to replace, I should be able to update soon with a progress report. Wish me luck!
09-02-2008, 12:20 PM
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