I remember when..............
We weren't all that well off, ourselves. We always had a garden, one or two cows, and at least one "beef on the hoof." All our "farm" equipment was old stuff, mostly formerly horsedrawn.
This "Farmall Regular," our family tractor for most of my young years, was built in the late '20's. Dad added a starter (flywheel added between bell and transmission), home built hydraulics, and a homebuilt "buzz saw," as well as a great plow on the front
This is it the day we sold it around ??02?? we DROVE it on the trailer!!!
You can see part of the "buzz saw" behind on the trailer, and you can see the snowplow mounts hanging down in front of the tires. Hand cranked, most of the time.
We had no baler until after I joined the Navy, so we put it up "loose." Our old mower was formerly horse drawn, and the first couple years, I had to ride the "dump rake." I was young then, and could not hold it down. Had to use a broom handle jammed in the pedal with my foot on the stick.
We burned wood, and there was a creek and beaver, who constantly ruined cottonwood trees. So we burned them just to try and keep ahead of 'em. Worst wood on the planet for heating. Hard to split!!! too.
That would have had to been a VERY early TV or else a color set with a problem.
Even sets of the middle 50's had rectangular tubes, unless color. So I guess you could have gotten a 10? year old set? Our first, a BW Zenith console, was rectangular, and I want to say I was in the 6th? grade, so about 58-59. It was used, but not very old, so probably new around '55
I must'a junked out 20 or 30 TV sets as a youngster, getting interested in electronics. In those days you had three major "build" strategies
1 The best, used a "power transformer" which provided 5V for the rectifier, 6.3V for all the tube filaments except the CRT and HV rectifier, and low and high voltage windings. These monsters were GREAT for building "ham radio" transmitters and other projects
2 Second best was one that had a "filament transformer" which ran the tube filaments. "High voltage" (B+) was derived right off the 120V line, so these sets "could" be dangerous
3 WORST was the "transformerless" sets which used tubes with weird filamaent voltages, so that when, wired in series, all the tubes "added up" to 120V AC. This means that if ONE tube went bad, you had to check them all. Could be "quite dangerous" because there was no isolation from the AC line.
When "we" were young, "we" used to be "deathy afraid" of imploding the bomb that was the picture tube. These tubes are in effect a giant hi voltage capacitor. I once had one had been up in the garage attic for a few weeks, and went to move the thing, and STILL got a nasty jolt out of it.
We weren't all that well off, ourselves. We always had a garden, one or two cows, and at least one "beef on the hoof." All our "farm" equipment was old stuff, mostly formerly horsedrawn.
This "Farmall Regular," our family tractor for most of my young years, was built in the late '20's. Dad added a starter (flywheel added between bell and transmission), home built hydraulics, and a homebuilt "buzz saw," as well as a great plow on the front
This is it the day we sold it around ??02?? we DROVE it on the trailer!!!
You can see part of the "buzz saw" behind on the trailer, and you can see the snowplow mounts hanging down in front of the tires. Hand cranked, most of the time.
We had no baler until after I joined the Navy, so we put it up "loose." Our old mower was formerly horse drawn, and the first couple years, I had to ride the "dump rake." I was young then, and could not hold it down. Had to use a broom handle jammed in the pedal with my foot on the stick.
We burned wood, and there was a creek and beaver, who constantly ruined cottonwood trees. So we burned them just to try and keep ahead of 'em. Worst wood on the planet for heating. Hard to split!!! too.
That would have had to been a VERY early TV or else a color set with a problem.
Even sets of the middle 50's had rectangular tubes, unless color. So I guess you could have gotten a 10? year old set? Our first, a BW Zenith console, was rectangular, and I want to say I was in the 6th? grade, so about 58-59. It was used, but not very old, so probably new around '55
I must'a junked out 20 or 30 TV sets as a youngster, getting interested in electronics. In those days you had three major "build" strategies
1 The best, used a "power transformer" which provided 5V for the rectifier, 6.3V for all the tube filaments except the CRT and HV rectifier, and low and high voltage windings. These monsters were GREAT for building "ham radio" transmitters and other projects
2 Second best was one that had a "filament transformer" which ran the tube filaments. "High voltage" (B+) was derived right off the 120V line, so these sets "could" be dangerous
3 WORST was the "transformerless" sets which used tubes with weird filamaent voltages, so that when, wired in series, all the tubes "added up" to 120V AC. This means that if ONE tube went bad, you had to check them all. Could be "quite dangerous" because there was no isolation from the AC line.
When "we" were young, "we" used to be "deathy afraid" of imploding the bomb that was the picture tube. These tubes are in effect a giant hi voltage capacitor. I once had one had been up in the garage attic for a few weeks, and went to move the thing, and STILL got a nasty jolt out of it.