Is this device a dedicated oscilloscope for TV diagnosis?

Chris Campbell

In the '30s and '40s, Philco & Zenith made "chairside consoles" much like that. I've got a Philco model 370.

Chris Campbell

On the Chevy, I'll just crank the idle up a tiny increment, if I get ambitious enough to do it. Mr. Charron, who serviced Dad's Chevy (before Dad lost the car to the kids) always set the idle to spec and the Chevy always stalled at stop lights. It was annoying. I quickly learned where the idle speed...

The carburetor on my '61 Chevy keeps me mindful of how spoiled we are by EFI and computer engine management. It's pretty well dialed in--started on the 2nd crank after 8 mo. of storage this year--but it gets grumpy after sitting hot for a while. That's probably an issue of modern gas formulations. S...

If the price us good enough, replicating the legs would be an easy project.

Chris Campbell

Creative work on that logo!

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Yay for Detroit, and the Ilitch family who saved the theater and a lot more. Isn't that guy having fun on the Wurlitzer? Don Gonyea, long-term NPR reporter, just retired. He was from Detroit. In an interview he was asked about his favorite building--the Guardian Building. https://www.guardianbuildin...

Cool! The one that YouTube gave me right afterward us remarkable, too, but you'll need god headphones or big speakers for full effect: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2rrmmdLu-I&list=RDr7heWkl5b2U&index=2 I've always figured that it must be very satisfying to play an instrument that makes s...

Ken Doyle wrote: ↑Mon Jul 20, 2026 2:37 pm It appears that the HH Scott 342 receiver is solid state, and 18 watts per channel.

And those will be FTC watts, not advertising-dept. watts.

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Sandy mentioned classic gear. A recent issue of Stereophile magazine had a review of a preamp ($25K, so I'm not rushing to buy one) from a small CA company, Ampsandsound https://ampsandsound.com/pages/who-we-are I was looking for his quotes about the classic designs in the back of the RCA tube manua...

My doctor encouraged waiting, but then confessed that after he had waited 3 mo. and developed an ulcer from ibuprofen, he opted for surgery. I was lucky, but the point is that trying waiting is the first option. There were a couple times while waiting that I was about to choose amputation. The thing...

By way of encouraging waiting, I'll add that my sciatic nerve attack resolved itself with time and PT. After three weeks, I could walk while standing up fr short distances. The injury was on March 23 and the butt, leg, and ankle are completely normal now. In the middle, I re-injured the other knee (...

Well, it's Scott, so it's a step up from most others. The device likes like slid-state era to me.

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The new heat sink. Yes, the engine is dirty.
The new TFI module is behind the fins. The shiny woven cable connects it to the distributor.

Chris Campbell

hey there, been repairing / restoring tube and SS electronics since 1972, Radio Shack manager in 77-78 in Brooklyn, NY, now retired in NC and supplementing my retirement with audio work for local owners as well as a busy volunteer pro bono restorer for the Asheville Radio Museum. arrived here while...

My sister does Instagram and finds interesting things. I did not know about Barbara Lyn--a left-handed guitarist, singer, and song writer. See here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoaLCc2jR_g

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The kit came with dab of gray thermal grease and instructions to treat it carefully because it's so expensive to replace. I kept getting my finger in it as I was unboxing/exploring. The Accell TFI came with a tiny packet of white grease that I have saved for future use. Hope it won't be needed but I...

The night before last, I installed the last step on the TFI relocation project--the dummy TFI on the distributor, with wires from it running to the new TFI on the heat sink. It took 3 hours in heat & humidity. Lots of @#%**$!!!. The online video makes it look like a half-hour job, but that must ...

I've got the chassis, speaker, and antenna too, probably from the '41 version. My uncle had built it into my grandparents' breakfast room. Long ago, before the house was sold, I spotted the cabinet stored in the enclosed storage area under the big front porch, but had no way to move it back to MI fr...

Love the vintage rig! It probably gives the same satisfying sound that the record-preview system at Lucky's Record Shop gave in the early '60s. Just a big sound, starting with a happy thump when the stylus hit the lead-in groove. I think theirs used a VR II also.

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