This was my first serious venture into TV restoration. The nice thing about this TV was when I got it it was completely intact and well cared for. The well engineered layout and quality design of this set by Hoffman Electronics, makes this is a great starter set for those interested in TV restoration aside from the weight. The thin profile using 110 degree deflection picture tubes was a very popular design pushing the big picture with a small foot print. The Philco "Seventeen" is a popular example of a set pushing this design. What thought to be simple restoration became a dragged out search for problems that caused the restoration not to be as straight forward as I thought. When I restored it some seven years earlier and a small update three years later, things didn't quite work right. It wasn't until July 2018 that I figured out what were the problems. This is an example of the saying "experience is a good teacher"!
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Restoration
Restoration Process:
Turning the Set On:
Replacing a capacitor went from:
THESE
TO THIS
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