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Friday, October 11, 2024
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#7) My uncle was a TV repairman for Sears.
ReplyDelete#9) Man, I don't know how many of these I had plus the ones with the rubber band windup. I bought them at the Western Auto and lots of BBs too.
Edward, I always had all three, and there was never a dull moment.
Delete#7 I was about 11 years old in the early 70's. Dad was a Ground Radio instructor at the Army's signal school. Our TV went out and I got the job of holding the flashlight so dad could take the back cover off the cabinet. He had me turn on the TV and he identified 2 tubes that were not glowing. He pulled the plug and pulled the tubes. A quick visit to Radio Shack and back to where installed the new tubes. The TV worked again. That is how I learned to troubleshoot tube devices. He didn't know anything about TV's but he knew tubes.
ReplyDeleteTsquared, I went to the Army's Signal School at Fort Gordon, GA back in 1968. Yup, if the tube was dark it was bad.
DeleteBest music was in the 50s and early 60s.
ReplyDeleteedutcher, up until about 20 years ago I liked everything.
Delete1. You, too?
ReplyDelete2. Haha.
3. That was a good show that you couldn't make now.
4. Hubby probably would have liked those.
5. Probably a safer bet thank getting in a line of cars on the highway.
6. Haha. My cat's draw the line at the pills, too.
7. I remember when the milkman used to come, too. Before the government had to interfere with all their regulations.
8. There were some good ones then, too.
9. Oh yeah.
10. Hahaha!!!
Thank you, Odie.
You all be safe and God bless.
LindaG, yes me too. That's why we have ice cream.
DeleteThe comment about the rubber band airplanes brought back memories of my brother and me flying them and the balsa wood planes. We would move the wing on the balsa wood planes a bit to one side or the other to make them circle. I wish I had one now. So much better than staring at a phone or some electronic game.
ReplyDeletePaul V, hey hey hey, they're on Amazon.
DeleteAwesome post Woodsterman! These are entertaining.
ReplyDeleteRattrapper, Thank You!
Delete#7 - First you figure out where to whack the TV to make the tube start working again. You do that until whacking no longer works. Only then do you take the back off and jingle/tap each tube with a wooden spoon until you find the iffy one.
ReplyDeleteThe general store in my hometown had a vacuum tube testing station with drawers full of new tubes, find the correct receptacle, push the button, read the dial. If the tube was kaput, find the new one in the drawer, pay the $2 and voila! Until the next time.
Matthew, I think our local grocery store had one.
DeleteMy wife, in her younger days, did some weird things...like try to remove the air bubble because it did not belong in a level
ReplyDeleteOr
Remove a pin or two from a vacuum tube to get it to fit.
Anon, I'm not sure I would share that.
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