re: Found this old school space command while working, any value to it?

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Tubes, CRT and flyback transformers haven't seen or worked on one in decades. Don't plug it in, dust, corrosion and component age can create quite a lot of smoke and high voltage sparks.

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Don’t forget, if they were smokers back in the 70’s or 80’s back then, all that nicotine glaze will start melting when you turn it on and give you flashbacks backs.

I watch YouTuber in Southern California that restores these sets. The TV and Film industry sometimes needs working TV’s like these for movies or TV shows as props.

You can see the transformation of technology when he opens an older set from the 1950’s full of vacuum tubes and wax paper capacitors to the more solid state stuff in the 1970’s and 80’s and one third the size. One thing is common though with those TV’s, they all seem to fail at some point. Most were fixable back in the day for a reasonable price compared to what you paid for it. Now in today’s age of a 60 inch TV for 300 dollars, if there is a problem you throw it away and buy another one if it is not under warranty. Otherwise it may cost over 300 dollars to fix it in time and parts.