Its still super impressive how much you were able to bring it back around. For it to even be working is damn near a miracle for how old it is.

I have been watching your videos for several years now and like you detailing everything even though I am not a electronic tech but enjoy your repairs and humor!

I had a beautiful philco miss America set when I was a kid.  Crt was toast.  Still watched it for years.

THIS is the set I want to see the Flintstones on!

Shango v. Predicta and Bob Anderson v. Cataract in the same week. Mind flipped

You're kind of incredible, did you know that? The knowledge you  have on restoring just about anything in any working or not condition is so amazing.

Shango, I'm one of the few younger guys who likes working on these older sets. I have a Philco Predicta mine is the table top style. Mine belonged to my late great grandmother I restored it to working order back in 2006. It's still going strong. It lives on my dresser in my bedroom and i use it as my bedroom tv. I have a Roku Hooked up to mine via a HDMI to Composite Video converter which plugs into a VCR which outputs RF into the Philco. I also have a DTV converter box hooked up so i can get over the air TV via my outdoor antenna. Heck as i write this i'm watching College Football on my Philco using my DTV converter box and my outdoor antenna. Do i ever plan on getting rid of my Philco Predicta Heck NO! It's been through a move from Michigan to Florida. Blizzards when i lived in Michigan, Severe weather when i lived in Michigan and now Florida it's been through a few hurricanes and been knocked onto whole house generator power. I can relate to what you went through in the video trying to get your Barber Pole Model working again. Mine was a similar mess like yours.

Good old Radio Shack. My second childhood home!

We know a guy that has about 10 Predictas along with an uncountable number of other old sets. He lives in an old church across the street from our business and he comes by to chat almost daily. He has SO MUCH stuff, but it's all organized and he uses the stacked up tv's as walls. 😂He's a wonderfully weird dude!

The form factor is so great on these things. They just look so cool.

I'm glad there are people out there who take the time, expend talent and money to keep our industrial history alive. I say, enjoy electronics.

7:04 Yep, repairing the egg sack is the most difficult part in TV repair, it's even worse than obtaining new picture tube or rewinding peaking coils or high voltage transformer

My favorite part beside the restorations is watching TV afterwards especially the commentary

Great restoration. I restored the only Predicta known in country - I live in EU, close to Austria :)
Friend wanted it, shipped it from states in 3 boxes. His was tabletop model with power transformer. Anyways, I did a full restore, replaced all paper caps, and some resistors. Electrolytics were all 100% good. Sadly the CRT was also weak (the image would even go negative if cranked up too much). That was a problem since I didn't have a tester to test the weird 2.3V CRT, as they were not used in Europe. I did find out that if I cranked up the brightness up to 3V, it produced a really good picture. Later I managed to find a Heathkit tester that actually supported that voltage. With my friend permission, I rejuvenated the CRT with that tester and it came to 100% emission. He probably ran up about 200-250 hours over the few years on that TV with no difference in brightness.

Its SO Great that the younger generation is getting into these oldies. I wish there were more guy's like yourself to teach them like we were taught. I donated a bunch of old electronics to a local college ( Tube type Radios & Television sets ) To bad someone has not yet starting to rebuild the old Picture Tubes . Thank You for the videos and THANK you for not so many camila ad breaks !!!

Model G-4654. The toughest thing about restoring one is trying to find a good CRT for it if it is bad!  Poorly designed circuit board mounted on a metal chassis frame makes things difficult to replace. The longer it was in use the more it cooks the board's components.  Shango persists and comes through once again. Picture although dim  isn't too bad. Two thumbs up
on your restoration efforts man.

" All the leads are green" sounds like a song.

Вашими золотыми руками эта винтажная техника получает вторую жизнь на существование! 👍👍👍

My FIL was an engineer at Sprague. We found all kinds of those decoders in his things when he died, and i still have them.

"Don't be vague, ask for Sprague"