Stunning but BROKEN eBay 1978 CROWN Portable TV / Radio 5TV-65R - TRYING TO FIX

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  @DonnaMarieEva1 · 1 year ago

  My husband Sammy Jay watches you daily and thoroughly enjoys your repairs.  He also purchases the products you use so please share them on the clips.  Especially, the electrical products you use.  Keep up the good work Vince.  He does repairs himself.  His job was a mechanical engineer before his retirement.   From Donna and Sammy Jay in East London.

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  @jerryspann8713 · 4 years ago

  You should do a live stream of these repairs. The viewers could give tips.

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  @JerryEricsson · 4 years ago

  In 1971 I was stationed in Vietnam with the 45th Engineers, my wife was home and very pregnant, so in order to get home to be with her at the time of our son's birth , I took a short re-up for 12 months and extended my tour for 2 months so I could get the bonus and take a re-up leave.  On my way, our plane stopped at Yakota Air Base and while there I went to their PX for a bit of shopping and purchased a CROWN Television/AM-FM Radio.  It was much more compact but did run on AC/DC  taking a bunch of C cells or plugging into a car 12 volt system, or had an AC adapter that replaced the battery pack.  It was much more compact then yours but she served me well on my last 7 months in Vietnam.  When I got home and plugged it into the 110 volt power it blew a resistor.  I took it to the on base repair center at Fort Bliss but they could not repair it as the model was never sold in the US and there were no schematics on it.  So I took it home and found the bad resistor, or what was left of it, no bands left as she blew, and I just wrapped a bit of wire around the two leads and the little set ran just fine for the next few years. I finally sold it to a fellow who worked part time as a security guard driving his car around some warehouses, he mounted the set under the dash of his 65 Chevy and used it to watch TV on the job. She was still working last I talked to him in 74 when I transfered up to DC to be a ceremonial soldier with The Old Guard.

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  @michaelfaraday4243 · 4 years ago (edited)

  The worst shock I have had and probably was the closest to electrocuting me was from an old CRT monitor I was working on.  It had been years since it was plugged in and I stupidly assumed it would be discharged.... NEVER ASSUME.  In the words of Dr. House "You know what you do when you make an assumption?  You make an ass our of you and some guy named Umption."

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  @misterdude89 · 4 years ago

  1 hour video!? Glad we're back to classic Vince length videos. I can't wait to watch

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  @ANTandTEC · 3 years ago

  All the power &nbsp;connectors have built in switches (mains, 12v barrel jack) so &nbsp;that when a power source is connected it disconnects from the battery. Often the internal switches in the sockets go bad. <br>The CH &lt;&gt;Radio/TV switch is a charge switch for rechargeable batteries. When in CH position it isolates the power to the Radio/TV.

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  @INSTRUMANROBOT · 4 years ago

  This is legendary! The repair apart this ought to go into the Guinness Book of World Record. Playing the PS5 on a 1978 portable TV. Much respect 🙏 This an engineer retro lover&apos;s dream

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  @RandyDarkshade2 · 4 years ago

  Hi Vince. Coincidentaly. I bought one of these last year on ebay, exact same colour and model. It also had the exact same issue, no power on. So while watching this video I got mine out (it was already opened up) and I cleaned the same switch you did, and now it works. What are the chances eh? lol

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  @omarg8663 · 4 years ago

  I really love watching you Vince

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  @thorhammer6040 · 4 years ago

  Vince &quot;there&apos;s a tube in here.&quot; Me &quot;that&apos;s just the back of the CRT, isn&apos;t it?&quot;

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  @patpopov · 1 year ago

  I used to have one of these in the early 2000s. I lent it to a mate so he could listen to the radio at work and it came back covered in plaster and dead as a dodo. 😥

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  @kenwheeler6150 · 4 years ago

  And when you run out of Q Bond try using super glue and baking soda

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