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Title: Loft find... Not a bike
Post by: brooker81 on 05 July 2016, 08:00:56 am: Any value in it? or just junk?

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Title: Re: Loft find... Not a bike
Post by: Fazerider on 05 July 2016, 09:21:23 am: Looks like a model V310.
It's an interesting find, VHF 405 line monochrome tellies circa 1957 are rare if in good condition, though not worth a fortune.
Best if you don't try powering it up as the line output transformer will probably need an oil top-up (yes, really!) and the capacitors and resistors will need checking/changing.
Stick it on ebay at £25 and hopefully a collector will spot it.
Title: Re: Loft find... Not a bike
Post by: brooker81 on 05 July 2016, 09:54:45 am: Better than nowt ebay it is.... Thanks for the info fazerider
Title: Re: Loft find... Not a bike
Post by: Oldgit on 05 July 2016, 11:11:51 am: has it got old reruns of Top Gear on it???????????
Title: Re: Loft find... Not a bike
Post by: brooker81 on 05 July 2016, 11:29:05 am: As long as chris evans isnt on it thats good for me
Title: Re: Loft find... Not a bike
Post by: characticus on 05 July 2016, 08:36:05 pm: You could also take a look/ask on http://www.vintage-radio.net/forum/index.php. (http://www.vintage-radio.net/forum/index.php.)
Title: Re: Loft find... Not a bike
Post by: taylor on 05 July 2016, 10:07:41 pm: a sledge hammer, ;)
Title: Re: Loft find... Not a bike
Post by: tommyardin on 05 July 2016, 11:31:17 pm: Quote from: brooker81 on 05 July 2016, 08:00:56 am
Any value in it? or just junk?

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Holy Fook, that is the exact same television set we had in 1961 when I was 14, now 69. it was the first telly we had when I lived in a Sussex village called Fernhurst.
To switch the telly on you had to push a button in on the top and the lid used to open and that action switched the TV on, inside the flap/lid were two rotary switches one to tune the set in the other was volume. Good old Murphy.
It was a shit picture then and would not mind betting its not improved.
Title: Re: Loft find... Not a bike
Post by: tommyardin on 05 July 2016, 11:35:52 pm: The other thing I remember about this telly was when you switched it off it would take about one minute for the little white dot in the middle of the screen to completely disappear.
we were sad fookers then, we never had much entertainment, wish my telly still did that :rollin [size=78%] [/size]
Title: Re: Loft find... Not a bike
Post by: unfazed on 06 July 2016, 12:10:11 am: :lol :lol :lol
Title: Re: Loft find... Not a bike
Post by: Punkstig on 06 July 2016, 08:54:41 am: https://youtu.be/ZmKbj5jENbc
Title: Re: Loft find... Not a bike
Post by: brooker81 on 06 July 2016, 10:33:15 am: Glad i bought back some memories for you tommyardin.. :rollin
Title: Re: Loft find... Not a bike
Post by: Robgosty on 06 July 2016, 07:21:19 pm: Used to work in a television shop back in the day, can remember them sets well, people used to stand em on end to transport em (eg screen facing down) oil used to run out of EHT transformer, easy fix, bung a bit of 20/50 back in with syringe ( transformer had flexible rubber top) :eek I kid you not :)
Title: Re: Loft find... Not a bike
Post by: tommyardin on 15 July 2016, 02:41:26 pm: Ahhh! memories ehh!
Who fooking needs em.
Title: Re: Loft find... Not a bike
Post by: slimwilly on 15 July 2016, 10:00:59 pm: I spend a hell of a lot of time inlofts, surprising whats up there,, loads of pictures in frames,,,loads and fucking loads of Christmas decorations.
Old computers,, usually a box the vcr or tele came in, monoploly, scalextric sets, dead mice , mouse poison, a tank full of water, why do people keep cobwebs up there? , old photos,