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10-06-2008, 11:44 AM
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COL-R-TEL on ebay
1950s COL-R-TEL Color Wheel Converter Mechanical TV NR - eBay (item 190257288438 end time Oct-12-08 14:01:21 PDT)
http://cgi.ebay.com/1950s-COL-R-TEL-...d=p3286.c0.m14 -Steve D.
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10-06-2008, 12:46 PM
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http://www.earlytelevision.org/col-r-tel.html
An explanation of how it works. Unfortunately this one is missing to many parts to ever hope to work unless you build your own circuit to run it.
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10-06-2008, 02:45 PM
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10-06-2008, 03:48 PM
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Good one Carmine!!!
Kevin
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10-06-2008, 11:45 PM
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I also question the statement that this converter made "reasonably good color pictures" when used with a very small b&w TV. I cannot see how a color converter such as this, using a color wheel spun by an electric motor, could produce color images anywhere nearly as good as those from a modern color TV receiver. I would think color pictures produced by the Col-R-Tel system would be mediocre at best.
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10-07-2008, 11:39 AM
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Listen to the video on the ETF Col-R-Tel page and you will get a nice description of how it works. Quite ingenious. The interface box picks off the color information from the signal and then makes the TV show the red information when the red part of the wheel is in front of the CRT, and so on. So you are viewing "real" color TV using a black and white receiver plus this gizmo. Even though it's missing the electronics, this could make a cool display item for someone interested in early color. Phil Nelson
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10-07-2008, 12:04 PM
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Great display piece, and I bet it goes in the $1K range... But for every pair of Col-R-Tel chassis sets I've seen, there were about 5 wheels.
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10-27-2008, 04:08 AM
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It was as the seller described, had been sitting in a very hot attic for many years, plastic windows warped beyond usable, some of the wheel filters warped too.
The good news is I've recently learned the filters can be flattened out again by laying the wheel on a table and carefully placing heavy books on top covering all the warped segments...for at least a month. [!!!] The motor bearings were very dry as was the wheel bearing which took a while to work loose from the 53 year old gummed up lubriplate in it. A good treatment with Hammond Organ Generator [turbine] Oil and it will spin easily again. The wheel itself is complete and I can probably make it work again like the one in my Avatar. Don't have an electronic chassis for it, but I've always wanted to build something like that from scratch, maybe using the Colordaptor plans from R-E January and February, 1956. Film@Eleven
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10-27-2008, 06:40 AM
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Cliff,
I think I have a parts chassis around here someplace, if you're interested I'll look around for it tonight. I have my wheel working and one is enough for me. Chuck
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10-27-2008, 07:59 AM
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That's incredible!
I think it would be wild to watch that thing work. That image of Superman in that avatar looks beautiful. I saw another photo somewhere on here of one operating and the picture looked fabulous. It would be very funny to have to turn up the sound to over power the sound of the motor and whirling wheel. I wonder how much that set-up was when new? I would guess it was about half the price of a standard color table model. Maybe $350.00?
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10-27-2008, 09:32 AM
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Im thinking the CRT he is using in that avatar is the one he cam and picked up from me, from a scrapped GE. good CRT
 As far as warped plastic, the best for that is to "heat press" it. get some strong humidity/steam up the wheel to a high temperature and press it. and leave it pressed as the wheel cools down for the longest time period. I had to do this for my peter yatzcer wheel. hehe... P.S. the wheel operates at a very low RPM, its hardly audiable. unless its scratching against something of course, or if the motor is shot.
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10-27-2008, 12:35 PM
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From the June 1955 issue of FARM JOURNAL
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10-27-2008, 05:37 PM
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