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Hello again Frank, Looks great. Well done. Mine was a doddle compared with your example. I did the extensive article reference 'LOPT Saturaration' involving the pitch overwind on a Ferguson 998T. I have also searched for it but it seems to have vanished into history. Try playing a hot air dryer on the winding 'stroking' it across until the pitch becomes soft and glossy. Several applications may be necessary to boil off the...

These pictures remind me of the early camera cables for cameras of the Marconi MkIII and later, the EMI 2001. In my BBC days, one job I had was to measure the lengths of and order the camera wall cables for Pebble Mill studios and these included runs from an apparatus room to the reception area (for Pebble Mill at One). It was always a worry that this sort of measurement was accurate enough - too short and it doesn't stretch, too long and...

Quote: Originally Posted by Jimmyhaflinger The 20AX tube was also used by Loewe, Telefunken, Zanussi, Indesit, Saba, Voxson and i think also by Luxor At that time Luxor used both Toshiba and Philips 20 AX. The 20 AX gave a superb allmost unbeatable picture in those sets. Telefunken and ITT (SEL) produced their own 20 AX tubes. They didn't last as long as Philips tubes, at least not in their own sets. I don't know if the sets drove...

The TX9 used a DST. The Philips G11, preceded the Philips K30, and Thorn TX9/10 by about 5 years.

Btrian, thanks for the offer, but Steve Harris supplied me with a scan of the 904 manual which seems quite useable. As regards price, I too thought it was fair. If Steve had put it into the WB auction, he might have got more, but he'd have had to pay the commission, so unless it had made near the ptice of Jon's Ekco, he wouldn't have been much better off. And it could easily have gone for less, after all, the Ekco is surely much...

Might be a Hacker radio on the right ?

I think i see a Grundig TK600 tape recorder (or TS600) on the left and a Philips N4302 on the right

Hi Yes, that is a Murphy TV with the A640 chassis on the left. Still think that's a Thorn 1400 on the right, but not 100% sure. Glyn

If Canford can't or won't supply a CCQ plug, then your best bet is to get hold of a faulty umbilical. 20 years ago there were plenty around as they often went o/c on one strand or other and it was considered better to replace rather than try to repair. If I were looking for one, I would contact some of the second-hand professional video dealers and see if they had a discarded umbilical lying around somewhere. Try, Video Impact:...

Ian many thanks for your time and trouble. I will try the contacts for the plug, and search for a Betamax** machine. As regards the proper camera then yes I quite agree that would be fine But the cheapest I have found is or was £400.00 and then a gap to over a thousand pounds, which is well beyond me. I admit that I am trying to do this as cheaply as possible and something less than perfection is OK. It's a suck it and see thing, if...