As a teen working in the TV shop in early 70's, I was able to take home a console RCA roundie that had a F-K short in the pic tube. I added an isolation xformer & used that TV for a few years. The almost earth-tone warmth of those early roundie CRT's was just wonderful. I think it was something like a CT16 chassis. Freakin' MASSIVE!

Every time I watch a color television set up it occurs to me how amazing the color mask manufacturing engineering. The alignment of holes to the dots. The directing of electron beams through micro holes and hitting correct color. It's all highly advanced physics yet it was honed to perfection and mass produced in the millions.

I haven't seen a color TV alignment like this since I was a kid and my grandfather adjusted all the convergence and color guns on an ailing RCA 25 incher with chassis CTC-38 way back in 1971. My dad got it almost for free but didn't know how to fix the color. We watched it in black and white for a few days until grandpa got a hold of how to align everything with the RCA service manual. He did pretty good for a guy who was colorblind and never told any of us of that condition. We watched that old set for many years until the flyback gave out. It ate 6GH8 tubes until grandpa changed a coil in it on advice from another TV repairman fellow that he knew.

As a teen, I worked to an independent servicer in North Jersey and learned how to set up color tv's of that era (Early 70's). I loved doing it as each TV had its own idiosyncrasies that made it a challenge nearly every time. I lost interest in repairing TV's in the mid-70's and moved on to audio, so I never made it to converging the Color Tv's that had you attaching magnets to the CRT to correct for the CRT's artifacts.

The crepe erase as personal lube thing nearly killed me. Seeing a CRT TV working even through my HD LCD TV brings back memories. Television was simply the best on those old CRT TVs. It's probably because they actually believed in good writing when CRT TVs were in use rather than shoving out politically tuned garbage. Just things I miss that will never come back again from a moment in time long past. I don't watch TV anymore except for severe weather reports.

Converging a TV in the dark, Shango66's voice, nighttime birds singing, a fly beating its wings from the left across to the right, in the distance an am-blance sounds, and strange lights emanating from the screen with the occasional crack of a leaky EHT lead - the soundscape is brilliant. Very reminiscent of a Pink Floyd concert man - keep up the great work.

I love the nostalgia i feel when i see TVs on this site and the date "1966", and i fondly remember what was available on TV for children like me back then. As of 1966, it would be another ten years before my dad would bring home a color TV to the house. We only had B&Ws to that date. That "modern marvel" was a boxey, faux-woodgrained 19 inch non-remote control Magnavox tabletop, utilizing a fixed, roof antenna for reception from NYC 60 miles away as the crow flies. The TV nestled on a nice roll-around TV cart. It was also the only TV in the house.

This really brings back memories of when I took a television course at RETS electronic schools back in 1977. Very cool!

Nothing makes my day better than seeing the Shango video however, simultaneously nothing makes me wanna bang my head into a wall more than listening to infomercials 😂

Love these long videos rather watch this than a movie

Love the color on that tv wish they brought these tvs back but have 4k HD or HD on them love to have a crt again

Wow, over an hour of Shango... I'm going to need some rehab afterward. I remember manually degaussing the CRT as part of setting up a set in for repair. Long time back.

I just love Shango's humor! 😂😂😂😂 Just the best!!

1:26:53 That is PVC insulation on those wires chemically breaking down, which converts the copper to green slime. Those wires all need to be replaced, because it will damage components and the board itself. It also might be conductive at high voltages.

I used to enjoy getting the purity and convergence just right in the 80's and 90's, I thought it was relaxing, until Sony came out with the 36" and the 40" CRT's in the early 2000's. You had to stick so many button and tape magnets under the yoke to make it perfect. The larger sets had coils to determine the angle of the set and automatically apply a bias to the purity.

Bought new Sylvania TV in the 70s. Couldn't wait to get rid of it and buy a Sony. Never had a problem with the Sony.

The show behind the curtain must go on. We don't need to fear where politicians disagree, it's where they silently agree behind closed doors where we need to be concerned.

Decades ago my parents had a '64 Sylvania color roundie and it had a *constant* problem with barber poleing. Not long after when that was fixed, the selenium rectifier blew and stunk up the place.

Dear Shang066, Excellent job on the color setup, Picture looks great, you sir are very, very talented on television, repair. Nice Job.

Would certainly set this in the house and watch it. Almost looks as good as a classic Zenith. Cheers Shango! 🍻 -Al

Another Great Video, every minute of it, even the 'trigger moment' got a LOL...

The final results do look really good Shango! Well done!

I watch almost all of your videos. I hope to adopt a set from you some day. That arcing certainly kept things exciting.

Watched every minute like your other videos. Who knew I'd like this so much? Wouldn't have the physical ability to handle the lifting this hobby requires but I can enjoy here.

A Saturday shango tv video improves my skin tone every time.

I did watch it all way to the end, spread out over 2 days.

I've got a couple of CRT TVs in the basement. An Admiral 19in B&W from 1965 and a Philco-Ford 25in color from the late 70s or early 80s. I remember watching the Philco when I was a kid, it had a beautiful color picture. I remember how visitors would comment on how nice the picture looked. I'd like to get both working but both have dead tubes and the chance of finding a working tube for either is slim to none. I'm thinking of gutting both and installing flat panels in the cabinets.

I used to work on tv sets, I have found that a front to back motion with a deguasser and then a quick forceful pull back of the deguasser always got the screen pure. Of course, this has to be done several times. And you watch for purity. And of course, several other motions. But a quick pull back always gave me the best purity. And I would always try to get a red screen. A well degaussed Red Screen with cause everything else to have good purity. Convergence comes after that. For stubborn purity problems, I would use a speaker magnet, in the same motions... constant front to back motion until all impurities were removed.

That Sylvania was arcing the way our old tube TVs did in the summer when the humidity was over 90%. It eventually stopped when they warmed up.

Yip , I watched ' till the end , wouldn't' miss it ! Crépe erase as personal lube comment just cracked me up 😂 Great job done & great you are preserving these vintage TV's .

I'm like you Shango I'm partial to Zenith. I was 10 years old when my dad bought a zenith used for about $ 20.00 at an auction. A 25" CRT... That thing had to be fixed once in 20 years!! And the picture, OMG !! Wonderful! They moved to Ohio from Va. in the early 90's and gave the set away which was still going strong!

My parents had a Sylvania tv in the 70s. Overall good picture. Every so often it made that arcing noise for yrs before it crapped out. I still remember him doing the color convergence tuneups on that tv.

There are news cast on KZfaq from almost every year I just put in KZfaq 1976 news broadcast and I found a lot of them all in a row

Looks a lot better than it was. Looking forward to future videos diagnosing the color lock.

Yea, who’s your daddy? Who lines your pockets? I always thought Sylvania television sets are crap! Great job there! You made that set a little less of a turd.

Always watch to the end Dan, sometimes in several segments, but love your content, so thank you. Warm regards from London

You remind me of my reactions to commercials, minus, of course, the expletives.

Good morning!!!!

6:30 6.5 mm close to one quarter inch hex. VG91 Multiburst Bar pattern to check video high frequency response. RCA also had that tinted smoke anti-glare diffused safety glass. 1:02:00 I've been known to erase Crepes with butter, real maple syrup, fork and knife... 1:06:00 I thought Huey was spoofing The A-Team when he was under the van fooling around with tools after a crash. Really looks great to me on the cell phone KZfaq. You're the man, Dan!

Regards Mr. from your collegue of profession from Brazil.

Any time you deal with removing a frosted glass cataract when you put it back together, you get a somewhat blurred image, your image is never crystal clear, it's the air gap. It's even more noticeable when you get the safety glass that is frosted and Tinted as it throws the colors off as well.

偏向ヨークコイルは日立と同じものですね！😅青の電子銃のカソード電極部の角度がずれると距離が変わるため曲線が変わってしまいますね。大変難しいでしょう。わたしはその場合、外部修正マグネットで調整を行いました。❤❤❤

Well, the Sylvania Arc-o-Matic is working pretty good. Alot sure goes into a setup. Good picture now.

I had a smearing issue with a CRT, but it was only present on one of the video inputs. It was a 1989 LXI with an RCA A68AEG20X02, it was like brand new it was super bright.

Nice TV good to see you get it going

Warning about the tube implosion possibility sticking on asbestos. Lol. Fantastic

I been working on a 1966 chrysler newport (windsor). wheel bearings and axle seals..fun fun

It always amazes me to see just how good even a cheap CRT television can look. It may not be High Definition, but the picture quality still beats a lot of LCD TV's. Given how long this tube was sitting unused, it might be waking up as it runs. I have heard rumours tubes and CRT's need a break in period, but never actually heard anything official. It could also be some caps waking up making the set improve :)

The second chassis looks so much better. The softness is most likely from the air gap between both glasses, also, the front glass looks slightly frosted, even with the set turned off you can tell there is some fuzzyness going on. Maybe a solution would be filling up the gap with some clear epoxy perhaps?

I always liked those Devo hats. I tried to buy one once but they didn't have my size. And if you get it too big or too small it looks funny.

The asbestos sheet really sells that TV to me.

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Thank you and Have a nice day

The main trouble I see with any of these restoration channels is that once you get the radio/TV working and turn it on, you get today's TV, they are not time machines, I wish they were.

@19:26 - in about 1984, I was messing round with large speaker magnets and the TV screen. I thought it was cool that it made colors with the magnet. Dad ended up having a repair man come out and use this coil on the screen to get rid of the purple blob that my magnet left. It was one of the honking rolling consoles with a top-load VCR stacked up top.

I saw a fly land on the screen at one point. It's just trying to be a bug zapper. At 37:46 there is a fly buzz that sounds like it is coming from far off to the left and behind me. I'm watching on a MacBook, stereo speakers, no headphone or surround. The effect is downright uncanny! If I'm not directly in front of my laptop it goes away. Your camera mics managed to encode one hell of an accurate HRTF on that sound.

Hi Shango, i have a 1974 GTE/Sylvania GT Matic Console thats Solid State and uses the same "octal tube socket" convergance plug setup as your TV you're working on here and the octal plugs are keyed one has eight pins and one has seven pins and also the center keyway pin is oriented different for each socket.

The Huey Lewis song playing around 1:06:00 is "Doing It All For My Baby" off of their 1986 album 'Fore'. Patrick Bateman's favorite album (American Psycho).

Excellent work!!!

A coil alignment made a huge difference on that TV. Took it from wrinkled blurry and soft to smooth and hard.

Serviced a lot of the early (DO-3, DO-5) Sylvania chassis. That's probably the best you''ll get the color on these. The color sync tended to drift (rainbows). Make sure the resistors on the horizontal oscillator tube are in spec. If the horizontal drive waveform is too narrow it will cause excessive cathode current on the HOT; check that current. I remember the HOT is a 42KN6 or on a transformer chassis, 6KN6. There may be a horizontal efficiency coil to set the current.

That's one snappy li'l Fernseher... B & H Photo Video has that Minolta MN53Z camera on offer for $279 (it's list price is $399) Didn't know kangaroos were allowed to practise law in New York...

The mosquito @ 37:00 onward got me good, I thought it was here haha

Another excellent video. Thank you very much!

And whenever something is from 76, I am like WOW. I am also from 76...

It looks great! Just needed that blue pill.

I hope the convergence controls are kinder to your fingers than a set I worked on years ago .. a Philips G8. I could have done with an adjustment tool to fit on the pots, I think that might have been the intention.

Another great educational video on electronics repair with the quintessential commentary that doesn’t disappoint. Thank you for trudging on!

Since hearing the word used several times on shango's vids I finally looked it up. Do yourselves a favor and google the definition of DAG-LMBO!!!!

It’s your girl Debbie Double D in the house offering the all new 14 megapixel giggler wattle enhancer.

If you mix them together you get a stiff neck! Great vid, thanks!

I didn't watch it all yet, but I wonder if the AGC is causing the problem? I will finish watching and see. I'm at the weather forecast lady. Ok, that wasn't it. P.S. I agree about the distractions. We're just cats following the laser dots. 😉

Great video

I've been zapped by the suction cup before. The pain is distinct, and it lingers.

When inhaling the asbestos pad, do you find it works better if you pinch off one nostril? I find the increased air velocity helps.

I had that same set but the flyback was a dead short. The crt was strong.

I remember hearing you say you have been repairing tvs and radios since the 90s. I, have not, but am starting my degree in electrical engineering and I love old crts. How could I get into repairing this kind of stuff and really understanding how they work and how to diagnose issues? Thanks for the videos, they are kickass

I always feel like there needs to be something transparent that makes perfect contact with the screen and the safety glass to sharpen the image. If it were full of light oil it would definetley act as a lense, then eventually start leaking everywhere at some point.

Great commentary, the Al Bundy TV and radio repairs it, lol

not gonna lie that $49.99 smartwatch and 3 extra straps sounds pretty sweet !

Picture looks shard , picture looks clear

I like your idea about the softness being down to an air gap between the CRT and the safety glass. Trump talks a lot, but says very little. If you use Crepe Erase as lube, you will have the smoothest bits in the world. LOL.

That red smearing reminds me of the Videocolor Black Super Planar CRT's we had in Europe in the 80's. Those things smeared badly even when new.

With the asbestos, to make sure that any dust is neutralised, before you touch it or attempt to remove it, give the surface of the asbestos a good spray with clearcoat varnish. This seals in any loose asbestos fabric from being inhaled.

I'm just here for the decollete

The orange man says something: the crowd claps/boos the demented man says something: the crowd claps /boos

Bushings? Bushings? We don't need no stinkin' bushings!

Brings back memories. I haven’t replaced a delta crt since I was about 18 I still wonder if all those X-rays have done any damage plus the lead solder and asbestos

A very interesting and entertaining hour and a half plus on a Sunday evening. PS, Trump or RFK ? Either must be better than the status quo.

Now I need a smart watch

i watched it completely

I wonder how long it took at the factory to set up these adjustments. I'm sure with all new components, it was much easier. Thanks for the tutorial, Shango!

After ( and when , or if???) the NOS Packard Bell set taps out for good, you should do the same run time counter experiment with this set.

Could that cooked vacuum bulb have anything to do with the softness? I thought you said it was the horizontal driver, but ya never know, hence me asking..

GOOD MORNING

Shango has the best political commentary! :)

Those Crepe Erase infomercials are a hoot. I love it when you ridicule them, don't stop. There are much better, and cheaper, products out there for this purpose.

Shango did you notice the picture got better after the Crepe Erase commercial? Did you get the weeks end HSN deals a 16mega Pixal seriously that was 20yrs ago. How is that a deal. stick to Crepe Erase to fix the picture. Great video love your comments always a favorite Saturday channels Keep up the great videos. Thanks MIke

Crepetastic!

Temporary fix for hv arcing, try blu tac, Works a treat. When I was taught to set up Delta gun tubes back in 1980, I was told you must set up picture geometry first, as this does affect dynamic convergence.... Your vertical linearity could do with a bit of tweaking.....