Cool repair, you really know those late CRT TVs very well, that was impressive.
@racecar_spelled_backwards868
7 жыл бұрын
Fascinating as always. I've become a n00b at trying to fix CRT sets thanks to you and shango066! The upside is that I can't screw up a broken CRT set any worse since it was bound for the scrap heap anyway. Personally, I'm most fascinated by early Trinitron sets. The picture on one of those in proper working order is excellent even it this plastic, crap-tastic flat screen era. Keep up the good work and fighting the good fight against plastic banana TVs!
@ESDI80
7 жыл бұрын
CRTs are still sought after in the vintage console gaming scene. A lot of people who are into vintage console gaming love the Sony Trinitron TVs and especially PVM and BVM displays. There are just some applications where a good CRT TV or monitor is a must over a modern flat panel display. I will pick up the older wood grained style TVs off the curb when I see them as my friends and I use them at gaming events to hook up vintage consoles too. You must have the 80s wood grain TV to plug your vintage Atari 2600 into or it just isn't that same experience! :-)
@Embargoman
Жыл бұрын
Yet it is true even some old school RCA TVs could do the job.
@TheGuitologist
7 жыл бұрын
I'm not sure what looked worse - the TV, or that screwdriver and pair of wire cutters. :) But hey, whatever works...
@RandyOnTheRadio
7 жыл бұрын
I gave my 32" LCD television to my 84 year old dad to enjoy. Thus, I dug out my old CRT 19 inch Etron color TV, that I bought at a Revco Drug Store in Orlando, Florida in 1987. It had been in my dad's basement for years, after being watched, dragged around the country from state to state, etc. I tore it apart and sprayed DeOxit into the volume control and tuner knobs. This old TV is not digital, and actually has the old style "turn knobs" that clicked for the tuners. I sprayed those out, along with the volume control. Did some light cleaning inside the set, plugged it in, and have been watching it now for about a month. The color is really incredible, and the TV has a speaker mounted on the side, toward the back to save room. The TV even sounds great, even though it is monaural audio. I am using an over-the-air digital converter box with a set of rabbit ears for the signal. Picks up about 30 GOOD channels. I've had this TV for 30 years, and it still works. Incredible. But I've always wondered? The TV brand is Etron... I think from Korea. Seems like a good brand. Anybody know anything about Etron? Thanks. Randy McDaniels, TLC.
@t0nito
7 жыл бұрын
2:10 That took you by surprise LOL!
@chuckdieselkicksdisks2380
7 жыл бұрын
still own my 2005 Sylvania 19" & use it....and my 1977 G.E. 9" Color....which I will not get rid of :)
@seatboi
5 жыл бұрын
Great job on this one, too, Bryan! You hit all the major problem areas with those sets for sure! It'll probably go ANOTHER 20 years or so!
@zidane2k1
7 жыл бұрын
This looks to be from the same family as a Sanyo 13" TV I used to have
@zacharyradford1708
7 жыл бұрын
It's really nice of you to help out a friend like that! Your a good egg!
@bradleyhifi8155
6 жыл бұрын
I have sanyo crt my grandma got brand new in 2002 still working power does not work but it works fine I had get a remote at family Dollar have not used it for almost 2 years the crt still works not much hours on it still really good sharp picture
@danvanlandingham3854
5 жыл бұрын
When I did this between 1965 and 1990,I had dozens of those sets that would just about knock you over with the smell of cigarette smoke-just like some of the cars I owned.I never smoked either.I haven't seen those box sets now for twenty plus years.My brother gave me a 32" Panasonic box set from the '90s the other day,but I haven't looked it.
@KenKen-ui4ny
7 жыл бұрын
That yellow nicotine soot is nasty, hard to get of the walls too
@radiofun232
7 жыл бұрын
I had the experience that the tar from cigarettes also functions as a kind of conservation. But for the HT Unit it all gets sticky and collects a lot of dust.
@THEtechknight
7 жыл бұрын
I am still rocking a 1994 Magnavox 25" Tube in my bedroom I had to fix a couple times. One was a 100uf 100v cap which caused loss of horiz sync, and then there was a 3.9uf NP in the STR circuit which took out the STR and the fuse. Fixed that. Still going strong. Uses the same vertical output stage as the old RCA CTC167
@Celeron_619
6 жыл бұрын
Is it a woodgrain set? I might have the same TV and I've been trying to date it.
@glpilpi6209
7 жыл бұрын
Agreed on every point . My main set is CRT too. We used to wipe a stripe on the tube screen when we had a nicotined TV like this and returned it to the customer after it was fixed just to show them what it looked like under the muck. Surprised that the EHT wasn't fizzling from the connector on this one . I hated clearing the gunk off them .
@Embargoman
Жыл бұрын
Back then Sanyo was also a third party company for certain store brands; to say the least Sanyo and even Panasonic made TVs for store brands. Yet Samsung did the same too! Nowadays certain TVs carry the name of the respective glory days era yet RCA is no longer RCA and yet I could say my Sony flatscreen is more than 5 years and it is still going strong. To say all this they don’t make things like the use to all of the products we buy are POS.
@johnferguson4989
7 жыл бұрын
I wonder if that vertical IC is part# Unobtainium.
@bonnie448
4 жыл бұрын
Oh great the rubber cap it there. I have to take apart one. It weighs so much I can't carry it out of the house. Now I can see the rubber cap, I can discharge it. Although it has not been plugged in for over 10yrs. Whew, solved my problem.
@donh01965
7 жыл бұрын
always love the videos...thanks for taking the time.
@cpbaseballman8452
4 жыл бұрын
My flat screen is 15 years old and has over 200,000 hours of use and still works and hastent had any repairs
@bebobebo4407
2 жыл бұрын
I think it's unusual how a late 90's TV has no AV inputs, only RF, presumably to save money. Many devices from that time only come with RCA cables, meaning that you couldn't use them right away until you have to buy a RF modulator, which is inconvenient.
@jamesplotkin4674
4 жыл бұрын
I serviced a gentleman's Marantz receiver and when he came in to pick it up, he swore it wasn't his! I hit it with Windex and made it look like new and he thought it was gold-tone, but it was natural brushed aluminum. His home was disgusting, I'd suggest.
@curiosity2314
7 жыл бұрын
Yes I do think a flat screen will last 20 years+. It will depend mainly on your use of the set. I'm going on 13 years with some monitors. Other then replacing caps they are good.
@realgroovy24
7 жыл бұрын
All too often some surface mounted IC or the inverter will fail leading to the complete failure of the set and can't easily be repaired, and modern TVs are loaded with ICs. That being said I've got many many hours out of my LCD computer monitor which is 11 years old now and will probably continue to work for some time into the future. I've only had to fix up two with bad capacitors and one with a bad inverter I came across went straight to the bin.
@Synthematix
7 жыл бұрын
everything will fail at some point, nothing lasts forever man
@realgroovy24
7 жыл бұрын
Everything will, but pretty much all the older stuff was made to, when they stopped supplying detailed schematic diagrams, and when they stopped supplying discrete parts was when they did. Let people repair and use what they want. I see you're into older (and some newer) amplifiers, stereo's, what do you have against some people repairing older electronics?
@Synthematix
7 жыл бұрын
nothing, but i do have something against when people do nothing but moan about modern stuff.
@realgroovy24
7 жыл бұрын
I see where you're coming from, I used to be like that I know but there's something so good about the older stuff that keeps me going back to it. I've got quite a few newer appliances that have lasted quite a while with no sign of failing.
@blunite545
6 жыл бұрын
Great video! You are so right, i hated to work on those throw away sets.
@RODALCO2007
6 жыл бұрын
Good repair and excellent rant.
@MagnumForce51
6 жыл бұрын
I have a 18 inch or so Sanyo with one of those flat screen CRTs made in 2004. (yeah kinda awful already due to that. :P ). I have replaced quite a few capacitors on it already so probably won't die anytime soon. But the issue I have with it is that the screen size changes noticably when anything somewhat bright comes on screen (white levels seem to be the main driver behind this behavior). You happen to know why that's happening? My guess is that maybe the flyback on it is a bit wore out. I've replaced pretty much all the big caps/caps that the main stuff that drives the CRT relies on and saw no change in it's behavior. So either the flyback or something not capacitor related. :( If it's the flyback, I may just EoL the unit. I've seen replacements for the flyback on Ebay for this TV and they are wanting $20+ for them....I paid $10 for this tv...Not about to put double the money I paid for the tv to buy a part for the tv that might not even fix the issue. :P The CRT has good convergence and geometry for the most part so I don't want to toss this TV just yet. Maybe I can get it to a state that won't drive my OCD up the wall. I already found the service manual to the TV and fine tuned the overscan settings to my liking. :P (via the secret service menu. Another thing I don't like about newer CRTs. I prefer older sets where this kind of thing can be easily adjusted with variable resistor knob things on the main board. I suppose it's more convenient to have a onscreen menu for it. But finding the service menu/secret button combo to activate this menu may be impossible for some TVs and that's really annoying.)
@3Cr15w311
7 жыл бұрын
My family bought a Sears 25 inch console TV (probably Sanyo-made) in 1984 and it was handed down to me in early 1987 and there wasn't much more in that set than the one you show here. It was basically one big board with connections to the CRT and to the control box. It still had analog controls (that you turned) for color, tint, brightness, sharpness, and contrast. Unfortunately, the control that I needed to adjust the most, the horizontal hold, due to the set's sensitivity to irregularities in video signals output by VHS VCRs on about 20 percent of rental tapes, was on the board and required getting an allen wrench and adjusting it with the back off the set. That set had a bad tendency to "flag" with signals with time-base error beyond a certain threshold and the horizontal hold would fix it but it would need adjusting for others. It was not in a plastic box and was still made in the days of making TVs look like furniture, although the box was probably particle board instead of wood by that time. Other than the "flagging problem", the set had a good picture for its day and it was still working when my parents moved from that place in December 1999 (the left it at the place they moved from).
@umajunkcollector
7 жыл бұрын
I still like wood consoles, black plastic ain't worth fixin, but consoles are.
@justsumguy2u
7 жыл бұрын
As long as it's real wood, and not that particle board crap they used in later sets
@3Cr15w311
7 жыл бұрын
It likely was particle board instead of wood. We had an earlier 1977 Sears console 25 inch TV that was probably real wood that we replaced with this 1984 model and the 1977 was actually prettier in terms of the cabinet, but the 1984 one had a brighter sharper picture than the 1977 one. I used the 1984 set at my house until around 1993 when I bought a black plastic Sony XBR 32 inch that had all the inputs I needed (composite and S-Video then). It blew away the 1984 set on resolution and picture quality and after I got an HDTV, my parents used it for years at their house. The other console set I haven't mentioned is the excellent 26 inch Curtis Mathis set my parents got in 1987 (the reason I got the 1984 one handed down to me). They used that excellent Curtis Mathis until I gave them the Sony XBR 32 inch. That Curtis Mathis has a pretty cabinet but I am not sure if it was wood or particle board.
@justsumguy2u
7 жыл бұрын
It's hard to beat the picture quality of a Sony Trinitron
@realgroovy24
7 жыл бұрын
You got that right!
@KameraShy
4 жыл бұрын
Would have been interesting to see how the CRT tested.
@steveomusicman6645
4 жыл бұрын
RadioTv..I really did enjoy this video very much..your commentary and thots helps entertain Great video~
@miguelque9102
6 жыл бұрын
There's no AV input? Then it's crap indeed. Otherwise it would be perfect for retro gaming or something. Great video😄
@ldchappell1
7 жыл бұрын
The same is true with desktop computers. After using a Dell OptiPlex for 11 years I recently purchased a new HP Compaq. When I first picked it up the box I thought "What is this some kind of joke?" The box felt like it was almost empty. When I got home I opened up the case and 95% of it was empty! They squeezed down the entire mother board and all the works into a space roughly the size of two paperback novels. At least I won't have to worry about the damn thing overheating.
@bloxyman22
6 жыл бұрын
That is what happens when you buy OEM crap. OEM brands always use the cheapest components possible, which is why it is best to build/assemble your own or have a computer store build it for you.
@Celeron_619
6 жыл бұрын
Still use a 12 year old Dell OptiPlex GX620 to this day. Works fine, why replace it?
@dmcintosh1967
4 жыл бұрын
I have a late 90s model "13 Sanyo TV and it has a problem. The problem is there are colored vertical lines in the picture that move throw the picture. The problem is interment and the lines are not interference from the DVD player nor the RF modulator. I found the tv on the side of the road years ago and It worked fine but now not so much.
@TM15R
7 жыл бұрын
Whenever I buy used ham radio equipment, I only purchase from a "smoke free" home. It takes a lot of work to clean up the mess.
@bloxyman22
6 жыл бұрын
I think these things will become more popular over the years with more and more people getting into retro gaming, which really does not look good on anything but a CRT.
@RenegadeAmiga
Жыл бұрын
And here we are in 2023 paying stupid money on eBay for trinitrons and learning CRT repair... In UK anyway. 😂
@JohnAudioTech
7 жыл бұрын
Our Goodwill stopped accepting CRT TVs as people were dumping them there and they would not sell.
@GrandsonofKong
7 жыл бұрын
I've found these sets of this vintage that don't have video/audio inputs, were almost all for the hotel/motel trade.
@wdavem
7 жыл бұрын
At least that TV's screen can make black that's as dark as when the set is off.
@normanwalz8636
7 жыл бұрын
Nice video. Better set out a few traps in your shop! Something has been chewing your screwdriver handles.
@bonnie448
4 жыл бұрын
LOL
@bradleyhifi8155
5 жыл бұрын
Late 90s when sanyo quilty went down hill but they have really good Sharp picture
@TopogigioSemi
2 жыл бұрын
Good colors
@williamsquires3070
7 жыл бұрын
Looks like something got really hot near the relay - that PCB looks charred to me.
@robinsattahip2376
10 ай бұрын
A smart TV is one that has a good computer attached to it and is being used as a monitor. The advertising crap on the Android so-called smart TVs makes them annoying.
@davidford1991
4 жыл бұрын
I have a Sanyo CRT from 1991 with original remote control no av inputs .
@prajishakoothichi7808
6 жыл бұрын
Is it slim tv? Or normal tv
@bones007able
7 жыл бұрын
what is the average life of a flat screen TV ? has it got any better as time has moved on ? I have a LG branded as a zenith... lol... it is a plasma set and has a mfg date of 2010 and still going , I thought the first flat screens died within a couple years
@CIays
7 жыл бұрын
I have plenty that are over 8+ years old. And some lcd monitors that are nearly 20 years old.
@connorm955
Жыл бұрын
I don't know. Surprisingly the Samsung from 2009 my grandma has is still working. It's been seeing all day use for many years.
@alanmaier
7 жыл бұрын
Look at the bright side - one less television coming out of China.
@bjthedjdutchdude1992
7 жыл бұрын
i still have a "real" Philips Crt Tv. It's not funai related
@IAmNotAFunguy
7 жыл бұрын
Every discarded Sanyo set I've seen has had the same problem: the screen shows a single horizontal line when you turn it on.
@moodyga40
7 жыл бұрын
i use to repair this garbage too now i just build valve amps and preamps
@CoolDudeClem
7 жыл бұрын
That's one piece of crap! I don't even see a transformer in the power supply area.
@MisterTalkingMachine
7 жыл бұрын
I think it's probably the little one near the bottom left corner, just providing power to keep the set on standby. As far as I can recall, during operation most of the power comes from the flyback.
@northhankspin
7 жыл бұрын
nice work. good point
@markmarkofkane8167
5 жыл бұрын
I have some Sanyo TV's. I thought it was 20". 1995, and 1999? Models. One won't come on for some reason.
@moodyga40
7 жыл бұрын
i here you i love more valve but i can not use it here any more
@BrokebackBob
7 жыл бұрын
Are you a fan of Heathkit products?
@johnsimms3957
7 жыл бұрын
Good job!
@martz1191
7 жыл бұрын
Yeah that is a 1990s black plastic crap tv.
@dann2ptf
7 жыл бұрын
Those things are a dime a dozen (almost literally) at our local Salvation Army thrift store.....
@jasonthejawman5442
5 жыл бұрын
Yep never picked up on smoking that bad habit- CRT TV's were better I like the 1980 Zenith Set's
@justsumguy2u
7 жыл бұрын
I hope he at least paid you for the indignity of working on that trash.
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