If you repair old TV’s and Radios ya know what these are. - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: jdolecki
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: February 26, 2023, 09:54:47 pm
content: Like Spicolie said “My old man is a television repairman, he’s got this ultimate set of tools. I can fix it”

author: Benta
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 26, 2023, 10:05:17 pm
content: Nice! 1980s?

author: TimFox
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 26, 2023, 10:50:12 pm
content: I have some of the same alignment tools in my kit.My favorites were the ones with a shroud around the flat blade, and the different-size hexagons on the same stick for aligning J W Miller IF transformers.

author: floobydust
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 26, 2023, 11:07:33 pm
content: What, these are a thing now? I've had these alignment tools for decadesI have spring tools as well, I doubt people know what those are. That's the only other tools from that era that are somewhat exotic, maybe the PLCC puller.That camaro is dead lol

author: Neomys Sapiens
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 27, 2023, 12:46:07 am
content: Exotic, eh?Look here:https://www.eevblog.com/forum/testgear/test-equipment-anonymous-(tea)-group-therapy-thread/msg3180964/#msg3180964https://www.eevblog.com/forum/testgear/test-equipment-anonymous-(tea)-group-therapy-thread/msg3211488/#msg3211488Exotic is when you have those:

author: CatalinaWOW
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 27, 2023, 12:49:03 am
content: I called them twizzlers. And only had a basic set of a dozen or so. And on my budget at the time not top of the line, so they always had less torque capacity than needed to get really precise adjustment.

author: eti
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 27, 2023, 12:49:39 am
content: Mostly non-conductive (non-loading?) trimmers, a bulb for LOPT / flyback driver loading, a wire brush to aid corrosion clean-up... I am an ex TV/VCR apprentice from the 90s - is this right?

author: Brumby
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: February 27, 2023, 01:05:47 am
content: That's quite a selection!I could count the number I had on the fingers of one hand. Haven't used any of them in years ... and I'm not sure where they ended up.They're around here somewhere .. .. ..... .............

author: aeberbach
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: February 27, 2023, 02:37:57 am
content: I used to take my grandmother's plastic knitting needles and grind them down to a screwdriver profile on dad's bench grinder...

author: jonpaul
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 27, 2023, 02:47:17 am
content: essentiel for calibration of instruments especially analog CRT tektronix scopes and plug-ins circa 1970s..1990s.Some spécial types had hex tips.for ferrite or powdered iron slugs in variable coils, or very small dimensions blades for tiny ceramic variable capacitors.My collection has ~100 types.Jon

author: David Hess
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 27, 2023, 03:50:58 am
content: Diddle SticksTweaky Tools

author: Stray Electron
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 27, 2023, 03:43:42 pm
content: Quote from: Benta on February 26, 2023, 10:05:17 pmProbably closer to the mid1960s! Very few later techs really knew how to align the tuned circuits in TVs and radios and it was too time consuming to to do it in a repair shop. I worked for a VERY old TV shop owner in the late 1970s and he was a master at retuning the RF circuits in TVs but he's really the only person that I ever knew that did it regularly and thatreallyknew what he was doing. He got out the Navy in 1945 and one of the big TV companies hired him and extensively trained him on TV repair and he was one of the TV techs that installed the first televisions in the US, specificallyin New York City!

author: TomKatt
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: February 28, 2023, 01:18:26 pm
content: Mr. Carlson has several videos demonstrating how RF circuits are peaked an tuned. He's done it using high tech spectrum analyzers and old tech test gear from the 1930's. TV is really just a fancy radio signal.There's a lot to it.

author: unknownparticle
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: February 28, 2023, 02:22:26 pm
content: Trimmer tools. I have a Philips service set going back to the 70's, essential for alignment work.

author: Towger
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 03, 2023, 07:52:23 am
content: A set of Golden Screwdrivers for magical tweaking of everything which can be tweaked...

author: EPAIII
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 07, 2023, 06:45:00 am
content: Well, I have a few of those, from back then. But that is the dream assortment. Frankly, I never saw it before, even in catalogs.I often used a file to make the tool needed for a particular coil or capacitor. By reshaping a fiberglass screwdriver.