Hello New Friends...Happy to Join!

[Chris K]

Hi everyone, my name is Chris K. I need to confess in this introduction, I'm a little intimidated by vast knowledge base here and the presence of the well known experts in the community of vintage electronic resurrection and restoration. I do not count myself at anything close to that level in fact, I'm really a novice having only dabbled in this for a couple of years. I am not, however, a science newbie. I've been a biology researcher and university professor for 30+ years so I do have some basic background in the physics of electronics and electromagnetism. I'm plodding through how to read a schematic and identifying parts and circuits.

I restored about a dozen vintage radios, mostly vacuum tube stuff, and then moved on to vintage TVs. I need to give credit to the community of YouTube restorers for getting me so interested in this. I subscribe to several channels...Paul Carlson...Bob Andersen...Shango66...David Tipton... Buzz1151...Radiotvphononut...just to name a few. I am nowhere near the level of what these experts can do, except maybe cabinet restoration as I've been a woodworker making high end pieces...reproductions of vintage styles and, for the past 15 years, acoustic, flat top guitars. I do value and appreciate them for the insights and for the budding passion they sparked in me for this great hobby.

Anyway, I'll have many basic questions! I've restored a Philco Seventeener, a couple of Zenith TVs and I'm currently working on a 1948 RCA TS-721 that has me so frustrated! I've watched bandersen restore on but he got a picture and a raster after getting high voltage to the 10" CRT almost out of the gate. I'm stuck here. The tube tested fine...no internal shorts and the emissions were good. I've got high voltage and accurate voltage in every CRT pin socket. Still no light from the tube. I'll post below in the regular forum section.

Anyway, great to be here and I hope I don't offend anyone with the poor quality of my work at this point in this hobby. I'm doooin' my best!

Chris