TBT, Did you watch Gun Smoke?

[Badger52]

Originally Posted by JJ_BPK

And then we watch the "pattern" until the daily schedule started the next morning.

That's a COOL chart! Would've love to have that. Frankly, my Dad used to just make a guess and we'd hie ourselves down to the supermarket and their RCA tube tester and its cabinet below full of spares to buy. 'Course, that kind of guess & by golly never accounted for something just being out of tolerance or a little out of whack but we usually made do.


Like cars of yesteryear it didn't require a tech team to dismantle just to change a headlight. Remove the fiberboard back panel and the world was laid out in front of you. I did get a valuable lesson at a very young age though of just what kinds of voltage could be present on the pins of a tube.