Bought a 5-307 surplus from a hospital in 1978 and restored it then. In the late 70's most of the electrolytics were bad! On the 5-307, to adjust UHF tuning, set VHF selector to U and use the VHF fine tuning to select UHF.

Except for the obvious antenna on top, the rectangular set looks much like a small bench oscilloscope. 😊

Well, no wonder it was only half the weight of the newer one 😄. That was quite funny. Brilliant looking set though. It looks so futuristic for the period. Would be perfect for a Sci-Fi movie set prop.

I remember by Dad bought one(the 8-301) of these back in 61 or 62. My Mom was not happy and I suspect it was because these were pretty pricey in 1961 dollars(a gallon of gas was 30 cents!). Also remember an over the shoulder Battery Pack for longer viewing time.

Don't forget the paper plates. !

Wooow! Such an awesome television set, this was manufactured before the Trinitron lineup!

So I guess I shouldn't take too much stock into believing that the older set is half the weight of the newer set. 😂

If you and others are not aware, you must use OEM transistors in any Sony product. They designed the sets to use specific parameter transistors. Universal transistors can cause major problems. I watched 2 techs dump over $250.00 in universal transistors in a TV set and never got it working (In i970's dollars!) OEM would have solved the problem. Design was based on specific gain parameters of selected transistors. I am talking Sony parts, not other sourced parts of the same number.

Great to see another video and what a surprise and very interesting seen a few things with Shango. Nice difference and love this channel. Waiting for future follow ups on Admiral TV and learn some more exciting stuff. Thanks Mike

I restored a TV5-303E from Sony, which is pretty similar to the 5-307, and it has the same setup with a removable PCB which holds all of the vertical and horizontal deflection circuit. I remember thinking that it made the TV a bit easier to repair. However, the edge connector is tricky... when you insert the PCB back into the pivoting edge connector, you MUST reattach it to the chassis, otherwise it just won't work, for two reasons, 1) the edge connector simply doesn't give good enough contact otherwise and 2) you need to attach the PCB to the chassis to have proper grounding. It's a cute type of TV and I got it to work after repairing the vertical deflection circuit, if memory serves. I used fairly standard transistors and other off-the-shelve parts to restore it. Most of the work is really caused because, paradoxically, the whole thing is so very small and crammed into so little space. Also, the power cable is notoriously difficult to find, since it's a rather rare proprietary Sony cable. A shame to see the 8-301 gutted though... literally. I guess it must have been used as a prop or something. I hate it when people do that... they really throw away a precious piece of history out of ignorance. I'd gladly buy the CRT off the owner though for a future project maybe

One pin will be grounded. The pin next to it is 12 volts.

I have worked on both of those. Pain in the butt. Both had bad caps and noisy transistors. And that was back in the 70's. You dodged a bullet with the with the 301.

I keep picturing the classic Godzilla films where they would have that portable tv in the background or in a scene, btw did you find the paper plates for dinner?

That is so cool! I have one of the little Singer TV's. It needs some caps, I'll get around to it one day.

Sony made some real advanced technical stuff in the seventies like the Trinitron color television. They real advanced the transistor technology that was created by people like Shockley and Moore who worked at Fairchild Semiconductor

The early 1960's Sony TV manufacturing appeared to be patterned after pocket transistor radios at the time; low quality circuit boards and aluminum electrolytics were used. Every Sony TV I ever worked on was unnecessarily difficult to service. Sony was boastful of making their own transistors which had mixed reliability and made for substitution difficulties since replacement Sony transistors were not available. On a positive note, I developed quite a skill of finding semiconductor replacements over the years as I left TV servicing for better careers in electronics.

There are a number of different CRTs which would certainly work in place of the 140CB4 but a 210HB4 may be a bit hard to find. At least that one's in good shape.

I have that early Sony, with the power cord, leathette carrying case and external battery pack make me an offer. It was working the last time I used it

There is solid-state, seems the next step is empty-state.

The batteries were contained in glass if I remember correctly.and you could top off the electrolyte. My set had the optional leather battery carry case and charger. I didn't have it very long before I traded it for a Bell 6060 tube Amp. It was supposedly new old stock. The guy was a sony rep and saved it all those years

Thats very interesting, display/salesman model makes sense but it's funny that the CRT in it is legit

It's complex, but I like your chain of thought

In the Jerry Lewis classic, "The Errand Boy," there's one of those on the mailroom manager's desk.

I vaguely recall shango digging into one of these a while back…. Edit yes you mentioned it lol

I'm betting that 4 pin power connector actually has 2 cord options: one to power it off AC for home use, and the other being a 12 volt option that would plug into your car's cigarette lighter outlet

You need to put some Creap Erase on those televisions

Wow! When you got to the part where you discovered there was no chassis I felt bad for the guy. Hope the guy didn't pay much for it. I have to admit,I figured something was up when you said the smaller transistor set weighed more.

The 8-301W's usually restore quite well. The pcb edge connectors need cleaning or can be a source of odd intermittent 'fun'. Line linearity is never brilliant.Make sure the video amp decoupler area on the middle pcb is well grounded to the chassis as vertical striations result otherwise, think due to sitting above the scan coils.I had one where the flyback was intermittently arcing internally to its mounting bolt! For testing just run the Sony off a 12 volt supply.Note that brown wires inside are 12 volts. You can download the Sony service manual free from Internet archive, 44 page pdf.

4-pin power plug looks like 2-pins AC (probably top 2) and 2-pins DC.

Are you a Devo fan ? That looks like a Devo shirt. I love Devo. Also I have one of those little Sony TVs.

wow

I think I need a new prescription for my glasses...oh wait!!!!! The carrier frequencies for the 1960-61 TV are 26.XX MHz? I thought most TVs had moved on from that to the 45-47 MHz range by then.

😂 no wonder it is so light!

Fix the focusing already !!!

The 5-307 is a decent TV. Just don't do like I did and try to add a video input. It's a lot of work and doesn't yield good enough results.

Hello im currently in possession of 2 8-301w sets and im interested in acquiring a third set for a upcoming short film im working on If you're ever interested in selling your set do let me know as i also am doing repairs for these sets to try and use them in the film rather than have them as a background peice

Two of these Sony 8-301W transistor televisions at Sargent Auction tomorrow Saturday online. Current bid $10 Lot 84