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History of Heathkit

tommu56

tommu56

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As an assembler / owner of many Heathkit kits this was very interesting.

I wonder what happened to Layaffet electronics? I built many of their kits too.
What happened to Allied Electronics kits????



 
Talk about a walk down memory lane!

When I was a kid in the 60's our neighbor built his TV set from a kit. He did a lot of Heathkit stuff. We built a few small Heathkit projects back then too. But nothing ambitious like the neighbors TV.
 
Heathkit used to be almost directly across the river from me.
There's a surplus store nearby that still has a ton of loose electronic components left over from Heathkit.
 
When I was in my first year electronics at Vo Tech the school planned to add videographer classes next year.
So the year before we assembled 20 color Heathkit TV's we set up an assembly line 2 guys assembling one part or subassembly.
When we got done all the subassemblies started the samy way 2 guys put the same subassembly in each tv till they were done
About 15 came right up need converging and tuning as planned.
4 more needed some troubleshooting got them fixed.
One was dead as a door nail we found multiple problems that were easy fixes except for the high voltage section had bad filament coil.
I bought a new solid state tube that didn't need filament cut out the filament bad coil and put ss tube in and it worked.
A new high voltage section was a couple hundred dollars the SS tube was about $50.
 
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