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Hue Miller
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Post subject: Sony TV repair manuals - now garbage ? Posted: Feb Thu 27, 2020 12:54 am |
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Joined: Mar Sun 14, 2010 2:51 am Posts: 568 Location: Newport, Oregon, 97365 U.S.A.
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I have a few Sony solid state + CRT TV repair manuals like this one: Sony Service Manual Trinitron Color TV KV-1945R RM-701, 54 pages, 1980. These TVs have all gone to third world countries to be hammered apart and to pollute their water, soil, and air. So these manuals are now just garbage too, isn't that right? I mean, those TVs were commodity items, like toaster ovens, and no romance to collecting them at all. thanks- Hue
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Mr. Detrola
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Post subject: Re: Sony TV repair manuals - now garbage ? Posted: Feb Thu 27, 2020 1:26 am |
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Joined: Jan Thu 01, 1970 1:00 am Posts: 26908 Location: Detroit, MI USA
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Somewhere there may be a few people still watching them and a few others in the hands of collectors. But by this point in time, I'd expect that there are perhaps hundreds of copies of service data for each surviving TV.
_________________ Dennis
Experience is what you gain when the results aren't what you were expecting.
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Elvirafan
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Post subject: Re: Sony TV repair manuals - now garbage ? Posted: Feb Thu 27, 2020 5:13 am |
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Joined: Feb Sun 05, 2012 5:12 pm Posts: 1047 Location: North Syracuse NY 13212
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There are a few groups on FB with people who collect those sets. There may be some interest. I know that many people refuse to use FB because of privacy issues, but they only require your name, gender, and age. I don't use a cell phone so I use a web based email address. Stick to the technical groups, and just block the few trolls.
Bob
_________________ Life is too short to be serious all the time.
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RonL
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Post subject: Re: Sony TV repair manuals - now garbage ? Posted: Feb Thu 27, 2020 7:33 am |
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Joined: Jan Wed 13, 2010 3:28 pm Posts: 295 Location: Surrey BC Canada
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Members on the videokarma forum might be interested in that info too.i see several sonys on that site from time to time. RonL
_________________ Caretaker of Farnsworth 651p and Rca ctc5 TVs.a source of vintage canadian tv service data
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Findm-Keepm
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Post subject: Re: Sony TV repair manuals - now garbage ? Posted: Feb Thu 27, 2020 2:31 pm |
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Joined: Sep Tue 30, 2014 6:08 am Posts: 5949 Location: Norfolk, VA
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I've got 9 binders full of Sony TV manuals from the 70s, and 2 bankers boxes of Sony U-Matic and Beta service manuals. 50% of them have been digitized by others and are out there in PDF form - and in my entire time over on VK, I've never seen a request for a Sony manual outside of the small screen color sets - the Chromatron set, and the little 9" and smaller sets, all of which came later than my stash.
The Sony model sets using the SG608, SG613, 2SC867A, and 2SC1034 devices remain unpopular with collectors - for fear of the GCS sweep in them and the misunderstanding that they are difficult to repair. 90% of them suffer bad-cap syndrome. A handful of 160V electrolytics repairs most of them.
_________________ Brian "Capacitor Cosmetologist since 1979" USN Retired 1984-2006 (Avionics/Cal)
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Electronic Memory
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Post subject: Re: Sony TV repair manuals - now garbage ? Posted: Feb Thu 27, 2020 4:10 pm |
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Joined: Nov Thu 11, 2010 6:03 pm Posts: 1512 Location: Pewaukee, WI
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The people who go for these sets are the retro video gaming community. Gotta have a CRT to play duck hunt for the NES.
Demand for paper copies of manuals is weird. I went to ARCI in fall with most of the Sam's folders between 100 and 580 (covering years~1950-62) and all the same between ~1900 and 3000 (basically TV only of years ~1979-93).... someone took the newer stuff before the donation auction, I donated the older material and then was asked by the club to feed it into the dumpster after it didn't sell....At the following WARCI meet I had separated my duplicates between the previous 2 ranges and those also met the dumpster after not finding a home being given away.
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radiotechnician
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Post subject: Re: Sony TV repair manuals - now garbage ? Posted: Mar Sun 01, 2020 8:34 pm |
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Joined: Sep Thu 23, 2010 6:37 am Posts: 12437 Location: Powell River BC Canada
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I have Sony TV repair manuals from the battery sets with hand written notes by the Sony Service Manager at the time they were popular.
Not that that fact means much, but he came to work for me when the distributor kicked him to the curb when they decided to replace and refurbish all products, eliminating the need for the a service department.
Happily I got out radio service and my next career, both wealthier and wiser when companies were also spinning off divisions deemed as not germane to their business plan.
Any manual has value if it of use. Trinitron sets were unique, and perhaps there are enough around that people want, as much as Westinghouse Refrigerator radios.
I think I do have a couple of Trinitrons somewhere. They were used with U-Matic Vtrs that the schools used.
_________________ de VE7ASO VE7ZSO Amateur Radio Literacy Club. May we help you read better. Steve Dow ve7aso@rac.ca
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trainman
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Post subject: Re: Sony TV repair manuals - now garbage ? Posted: Mar Mon 02, 2020 3:33 am |
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Joined: Jan Thu 01, 1970 1:00 am Posts: 2123 Location: Waukegan, IL
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if things are digitized, no one wants to lug all those paper copies around. having said that, i do hope that there are a few collections of the paper copies around, just in case the digital copies go up in cyber smoke.
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Tom Schulz
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Post subject: Re: Sony TV repair manuals - now garbage ? Posted: Mar Mon 02, 2020 5:51 am |
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Joined: Mar Sun 01, 2009 10:27 pm Posts: 5475 Location: Ann Arbor, MI
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But have they been digitized? If not then the paper manuals should be kept until they are digitized.
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Brian Stroud
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Post subject: Re: Sony TV repair manuals - now garbage ? Posted: Mar Mon 02, 2020 7:02 am |
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Joined: May Mon 07, 2012 4:01 am Posts: 585 Location: Granville Summit, PA
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I think the Trinitron set that I have might be the kv1945r. Should be the 19" set with the wide angle crt with PVA laminated safety glass and dual vhf uhf hand tuners
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ac
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Post subject: Re: Sony TV repair manuals - now garbage ? Posted: Mar Mon 02, 2020 5:42 pm |
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Joined: Jan Thu 01, 1970 1:00 am Posts: 400
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It's a shame to throw away original documentation, but it does take up a lot of space. Why not put them on ebay for a token amount? You never know who might want them. 1980 was 40 years ago, so they definitely qualify as vintage.
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Brian Stroud
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Post subject: Re: Sony TV repair manuals - now garbage ? Posted: Mar Mon 02, 2020 10:24 pm |
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Joined: May Mon 07, 2012 4:01 am Posts: 585 Location: Granville Summit, PA
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Brian Stroud wrote: I think the Trinitron set that I have might be the kv1945r. Should be the 19" set with the wide angle crt with PVA laminated safety glass and dual vhf uhf hand tuners NVM mines a kv1910
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Tube Radio
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Post subject: Re: Sony TV repair manuals - now garbage ? Posted: Apr Sun 05, 2020 6:57 pm |
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Joined: Jan Thu 01, 1970 1:00 am Posts: 21008 Location: Warner Robins, GA
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I actually prefer paper manuals as I don't need to be near a computer and I don't have to worry about a schematic being split in two so it fits properly in a PDF document.
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trainman
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Post subject: Re: Sony TV repair manuals - now garbage ? Posted: Apr Sun 12, 2020 5:37 am |
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Joined: Jan Thu 01, 1970 1:00 am Posts: 2123 Location: Waukegan, IL
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Any manuals for Sony 5-307UW tv? or Sony 500-U tv?
_________________ Tony Pignaloni
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