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What are theses Mechanical TV parts
I purchased these Mechanical TV components on eBay. They were manufactured by Western Television. They seem to have more components then the Western Visionette Receiver. There is some speculation they might be from Western Jr flying spot camera? A Western Jr Camera is shown on this ETF page. https://www.earlytelevision.org/w5xa.html
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I guess my question would be whether these parts were used in both the camera and the display or not. If in both, what here is unique to the camera?
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there is a picture of the rear of the Visionette receiver at https://www.earlytelevision.org/western_pics.html
There is another picture of the receiver components taken out at the top of page 13 on this pdf https://www.californiahistoricalradi...ing-Summer.pdf I think the Western Junior camera may have had the 4 triangle shaped brackets merely to be more rugged in a commercial TV studio setting. The design of the Visionette receiver would also make taking the 17 inch disc easier to get off. I had to remove the outer two brackets of my eBay purchase in order to get the disc off. The other possibility is that these 4 brackets are off two Visionette receivers. This mechanism may have been part of Dr Taylor's (Author of Taylorvision book). A separate auction by the same seller had Dr Taylor's mechanical receiver he had built for sale. The camera had two large photocell boxes (separate pieces) and a light source (arc lamp?) to project light through the disc for the flying spot camera. The Visionette receiver had a traditional receiver neon lamp. Attacted picture is the extra stuff lacking from a Visionette receiver (behind the Disc where the Visionette has a straight bar. ) Last edited by rld-tv01; 04-30-2023 at 03:21 PM. |
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The disc was severely bent when I got it. I clamped it to a board to get out the lopsidedness. The aluminum metal thickness is pretty thin. I have to take off the inner hub to try to straighten the 4 inner concentric circles. A you can see there are 4 alternating rolls of extended, depressed, extended, depressed. Once the center hub is off it should lay flat on a board where I can press down on the depressed circles then flip it over and press down on the other two circles. The internet says they two best methods for straightening aluminum is pressure and heat (Iron). There are spatula shaped attachments for regular electronic soldering irons (about $6). There are also complete miniature spatula shaped irons for the clothing industry (about $14) for cuffs and laces etc. It would be easier if it were a flat without grooves 17 inch disk then I could use an ordinary clothes electric iron.
I am only trying to get it to a presentable appearance and not true straightness for functionality at this time. I have a complete Visionette receiver which I purchased at an ETF auction several years ago. That one has a disc in good functional shape. |
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