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Due to ill health, I have been forced to relinquish my position as Membership Secretary to the BVWS. This is because I have had a kidney illness for some time and have now reached the stage where I need to start on Dialysis and suchlike. Please address all Membership related issues to Mike Barker, via the BVWS Website. The Bolton based mailing address will remain active so that no renewals or applicaions will be lost. Sorry for any inconveinience or lack of response to E-mails of late. Having problems with a PC Supplier? So did I - and I won out in the end. Read my story by clicking here! Paul Stenning is no longer supporting the Vintage TV Service Data CD-ROM that is described on these pages. This has now passed to Jon Evans, whose website is on our links page. A second CD is planned. Please direct all comments and queries to Jon Evans, not to Paul Stenning. Following negotiations between the BVWS and Radiophile Publications, 405 Alive has now been included in the BVWS Bulletin. Andy Henderson remains in charge of the 405 Alive section of the BVWS Quarterly Bulletin. The First Edition of the BVWS Bulletin incorporating 405 Alive will be the Winter 2001 Issue. All 405 Alive members on the 405 Database have been granted a year's associate membership of the BVWS. Speaking of Temporary Faults, we are glad to report that 'The Radiophile' have now overcome their publishing difficulties and the publication is back with us at long last. |
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WELCOME to The Old Television Website. There seems to be a dearth of information on the web about restoring old TV sets. There's some excellent sites about old radios, but very little about restorations on TV sets. I hope these pages will go some way to putting that right... If you wish to contribute, agree, disagree or even personally abuse me, please do.
Incidentally, this site is British Targeted and deals with the 405 Line and 625 Line PAL systems.If you live or work elsewhere, please remember that while most of the imformation included will be relevant, some may not be applicable to other transmission standards. For our American friends, for example, when I say 'TUBE' I mean Cathode Ray Tube not Valve!
To jump to the section you want, simply click on the relevant link on the menu located on the left.
Please note that all the graphics and coding on this site has been created by my own fair hand as I burned the Midnight Oil. If you wish to plagarise the graphics and backgrounds, you are welcome to do so if you let me know. This is because you may be a valve electronics buff yourself; perhaps we could talk. Tell me where your site is so that I can drop in for a look?
The above applies only to non-commercial users. Commercial sites may NOT plagarise me in order to make money. If you do, you will burn in cyber-hell!!
All Television sets, new and old, contain hazardous voltages. I wish to make it plain that entry to this site is taken as acceptance of the points listed below:
1: It is NOT reccommended to attempt electronic repair or restoration on any TV set UNLESS you are confident that you are suitably experienced in electronics and vintage radio.
2: It is advisable to have experience of Vintage Radio restoration, I reccommend Paul Stenning's Vintage Radio restoration pages as a good start to learn the necessary skills without having to work with 25kV EHT supplies!!!!! You'll find his address under Links.
3: Every effort is made to ensure the accuracy of this site. However, I do not accept responsibility for any errors or their consequences. In addition, I cannot be held responsible for the use, misuse or misunderstandings of any part of the content of this site