Last year I was lucky to find and purchase an original RCA Berkshire entertainment center from about 1948 I have never restored a TV but I have repaired more than a few of them. You will need to be careful to not move stuff around in the tuner (if there are even any paper capacitors in there) just as you would in an FM radio.īack in the day, TV owners were capable of removing the tubes from their TV, including the high voltage rectifier and damper, taking them to the corner drug store to test them, and purchasing replacements right there. You don't have to deal with the high voltage section unless it doesn't work, and even then it's easy to discharge any voltage to ensure that it's safe.
But if you're careful to install the new ones in exactly the same places the old ones were in, and don't move around the wiring too much, it will come out fine. It will be tedious, only because there will be *so many* paper capacitors to replace. A TV is just a big radio with the addition of a few specialized circuits. Jack, I've seen your work and I know you can do it. Although it's tempting just to replace 20 or so capacitors, clean up some wiring, measure some resistors, check continuity, measure voltage levels, exchange some tubes and fire it up. I think I'll punt and ask for help on this, give it to a pro, much too dangerous for me.
The schematic is intense and I'm just not comfortable with components like high voltage rectifiers. Honestly, I think I'd be in over my head to work on the TV.