I've had one of these for almost 23 years now, picked up at an old-tyme electronics shop in Tulsa. It's a hinged lid 1076 with the instructions and 5 or 6 slides with different patterns. Still works good to this day, I have not had to replace any components, a testament to the high quality parts they used in it.
I like 👍 retro TV 📺 equipment , stereos, record players, and the like 👍. Tube type electronics are my favorite 😍, taking me back to my childhood. Just be careful where ya poke the screwdriver 🪛. Ya can be hurt 😞 very badly, if not worse. Just a message of safety. Your friend, Jeff.
I am well aware of high voltage. I cut my teeth on tube gear and have been jolted more times over the past 50 years than I can remember. Screwdriver handle is plastic and thus insulated when pulling that 12kv arc.
For sure that would have been a fortune back then. This one goes back to 65 and it was probably in the same price range. In 69 my dad bought a Macintosh 1600 stereo. I thought my mother was going to kill him. She made him return it but the store wouldn't take it back so he hid it in the crawlspace for me to find 25 years later all chewed by rats. I still have it, but the wood cabinet is trashed.I need a craftsman to make a new cabinet for it. I know this thing is useless now just a toy to haul out to impress people for what it is and how it worked. Its like that old 8mm deck with the U loading transport and PCM adapter. Its just cool to watch it work.and this when the cover is off with that UV tube and the slide generating a video signal. Almost worth recapping to see how much better I can make it look if any.
Years ago, I had a 1076 and later, I had a 1077. The 1077 had some solid-state circuitry, in addition to tube circuitry, and it provided drive signals for solid state vertical and horizontal sweep systems. I should have hung on to those pieces.
My ears could still sense the frequency of the oscillator shifting back and forth when you adjusted the horizontal width towards the end of the video. Pretty cool.
That is an awesome thing to see. I would have love to been born during the time when TV stations were being built and see flip the channel dial around and watch a station go on the air and see the test pattern. The places that piece of equipment has been over the decades.
Great demonstration of this interesting device. Two small points: the tube phosphor emits violet light, not ultraviolet, and there is no phosphorus used in any CRTs. As counterintuitive as it sounds, phosphorus is not phosphorescent!
The phosphor (have yo override the spell check for the grammar police) certainly is uv. It appears vilot to your eyes just as the uv tubes in bug zapppes and they are uv-a as this tube is. Black lights are also the same there another type of backlight that uses woods glass and that is called blacklight blue (BLB) which uses a dark blue glass to filter out the vilot portion of the spectrum its the invisible uv spectrum that the photomultuplier tube is most sensitive to .
I know Shango has a 1076, which is a newer version. This is the 1075. Similar but 1076 does more. The shop I started at had a 1076. I'll recap this one some day but it appears to be working fine with the old caps and this is not something that will see much of any use other than a collector item.
They did it on every station from sign off till sign on. Back in 60s they use a monoscope camera. Once color tv hit they started running color bars all night. After 11 o'clock news they would run the late movie then sign off and start up again at 6 am with the morning news. Usual sign off tone about 2 after the late movie. Then the 24 hour stations started. I remember when they actually shut the transmitters off. Sign off play national anthem then monoscope or color bars for a few minutes then power off and signal fade away. I should have shown the shut down if this generator as it sure brought back memories. I'll shoot an ending using it before i put it away. It goes off just like the tv transmitter did as like the transmitter it's tubes. Kill the b+ and the power just fades to snow.
@@12voltvids LOL, I remember those days also, early '70s in my case. Turn on your TV at, say, 3 o'clock in the morning, and get the color bars plus the loud tone, or just snow with the loud "ssshhh" sound. I seem to recall there being one channel in our area that ran old black-and-white '40s and '50s movies through the night. Also, I remember one of the TV shows that came on really early in the morning was The Jack LaLanne Show. Remember him, the exercise and fitness guy? I wonder, did CTV or CBC run his show?
It still amazes me how they managed to make things work in the past, I got an old Tube pattern generator in my own storage but I don´t think that have a crt like this one, I think I actually wanna have a look inside and see what it got, I never did since I fixed a solid state one I use for that purpose. But I actually got curious what´s inside my old generator ha ha
I had a real simple poor man's video signal generator in the 80s due to my cheap prick boss. It was an old video camera and some cardboard alignment charts in a light box with 2 40 watt lightbulbs. Was crude but it worked well enough for convergence adjustments when CRT was replaced.
@@12voltvids well every method counts but you never get better than your tools as I always say. But A tool is better than No tool. And I actually went and grabbed my old signal generator in the basement and had a look at it. It is a Nordmende FSG957/II. Just by eyeballing it I find so many ugly Rifas inside of it, guagh. A tube that absolutely lost vacuum. Some rotten resistors and corrosion. I am sure I have spare tubes for the broken one. Rifas should be replaced on sight and these have cracked open like dried mud in the dessert. I should have that too. I made some random tests on some caps that is either foil or paper in oil types and they show some leaked current both on my own tester and with voltage applied to them but probably within operational limits. I could probably fix it and I might do that if I get enough motivation. I have to replace all the Rifas before I can perform a Dim bulb Variac reforming on it. I won’t change any unnecessary caps on this one before I know it gonna be worth it so. But it could be fun to see what this can do compared to my newer pattern generator :)
I have two 1077b versions I imported from the states as we didn’t have these in the uk . I find them fun and very useful for tv experiments and repairs I do have a few us sets but it does work well on the uk 625 standard although I use a uhf modulator for this . The horizontal drive has helped many times checking flyback faults
Its a cool old piece of tech that is appreciated because you can see what it is doing.Chips are boring. This you can see the image on the flying spot scanner how cool is that. Its almost worth recapping it some day for shits and giggles.
I have get some caps as i don't have any this size there are about 10 that should be done. Might change the RF connector as well when i get back on it. This is not something that will see much if any use though other than to play with. More for nostalgia than anything.
@@12voltvidsI was surprised recently to find out that those old microphone connectors are still available. They are Switchcraft 2501F and Digikey has them for about US$10. Anyway, that's a cool bit of kit. Thanks for showing it.
27:59 I think color TV broadcasting didn't start in Canada until 1969 or so. Did your parents have a color set fairly early on? Per Wikipedia, Vancouver, BC was one of the first areas in Canada to have cable TV service.
My grandmother had a Philips k6 color tv in 1967. The first cable TV operation on Canada was the sunshine coast (coast cable) founded by stan Thomas in the early 60s. The first system he strung a coaxial line from an antenna up on a mountain through the trees and then along fences through back yards. Back then it was called MATV. Master antenna TV. Soon he had a business model and started wiring the community. In 1965 he moved to Delta and started delta cable. The first connections started on beach grove road as the antenna tower was out in farm land off the end of beach grove road. The cable ran on poles run along dyke road. They connected first customers in 1967 in beach grove and my grandmother was one if the first to get connected as this neighborhood was the first to be connected as the build started here and worked west and north. I remember watching the moon landing in color. Well Walter Cronkite was in color. They only took a monochrome camera to the moon the first time. Delta cable was the pioneer of cable TV. I worked for them for 4 years 79-83 started when i was in high school as a volunteer in the community tv production side of the business. When finished high school went to bcit and took a TV production course. (I was working at the first tv repair shop for pay during this time too) when i finished bcit I was hired for master control at the community station delta tv. Things didn't work out though as I was aparantly "too eager to learn" how the equipment worked which annoyed the engineer as I would clean the heads on a vtr myself rather than call him. (Even though he had shown me how to do it including the fingernail trick) he saw me as a threat to his job. One day the old man called me into his office and offered me a job on the technical side, and that was working for the cable plant side and not the community tv side. Offered me a position at Delta electronics in the assembly plant. Being a pioneer in cable TV there wasn't much that they didn't do in-house. Delta electronics fabricated in house cable splitters and directional taps that went on trunk lines and built catv amplifiers. They sold to every cable company on Canada. Delta electronics and Holland electronics were the 2 big players in catv infrastructure. Alpha was another they built the ups boxes that powered up the coax trunk lines. Anyway being young and dumb i declined that offer and left the company when I landed a job at Sony in spring of 83. Did a year there and then went to the local independent Sony warranty depot and stayed there 19 years. I kuck myself now as I could have taken that job building catv splitters moved into amplifiers and then who knows but one thing for sure I would be long retired with a fat pension now because the CATV side of the business was IBEW. As they say hind sight is 20/20. Same with phone company. I applied at bctel when I was in grade 12 hoping to land a job there as my uncle and cousin worked there. Unfortunately the quota was filled in March and i didn't graduate till June so that ship sailed. They didn't start mass hiring again until 2004 when the first batch of the 75-81 hires started retiring at 25 years. I applied again 2004.
@@12voltvids The cable service must've been a real boon to Vancouver at the time, since there were only 3 or 4 stations people could pick up with just rabbit ears or a typical home roof antenna of the era, I'm guessing. Did Delta Cable's antenna tower pull in the Seattle stations pretty well?
@@angryshoebox yes before cable 4 5 and 7 were snow storms after cable clear as a bell. They moved cbc from 2 to 3, 4 and 5 were in original location as was 7, channel 6 was left on 6, 8 moved to 11 and 12 to 13. Channel 10 was the community channel.
Your old boss sounds as mean as mine was, if you needed a test pattern your only option was to wait for one of the TV channels to put on a test card, this drove me nuts. It all changed when colour came along then i insisted on a colour bar and pattern generator of my choice or i left, to my shock he agreed, and i had a shiny new labgear one they were not cheap. You can't setup a TV correctly without one.
He was a prick all right. Had no signal generators. Always wanted a sencore but boss was too cheap. I had to supply my own scope soldering iron and dmm. I wasn't buying tools for him to make money off of. One night after closing i needed my scope at home so I went to the shop at about 8 pm on a sat to get it and returned it Sunday evening so it was ready Monday morning. He found our and took my key away so i started taking my scope meter and soldering iron home every night and bribging it in the morning and that really pissed him off so he docked me 30 minutes pay every day for the time I wasted loading and unloading my tools every day.
That is what i call a bad boss, i think the trade makes them that way. It came as no surprise but still a shock when my boss and his brother inlaw were fined for fiddling the VAT Education repairs were VAT exempt, so they put them all down as education and kept the VAT it closed the place, all i was allowed to do was collect my own gear but i also kept the jigs and test discs for Laser Disc players. I then went self employed for 3 years and made a fortune, but they stopped selling spares to anyone who was not an authorised dealer, that was when i started work for the MOD on test gear etc. It was great, good wages and no customers to deal with.@@12voltvids
The hardest thing I found to get my head around was that when the frame output starts to fail and collapse from the bottom of the UV phosphor screen (due to failing capacitors) the actual output image starts to elongate. Due to the photo-tube receiving the lines in less time, it spreads the output over the same time no matter what the input rate is, so it appears stretched... as you can see I still don't fully understand it. Or at least I'm not very good at explaining what I think I understand LOL.
It's a mirror image. Increase the scan on the scanner and the picture gets smaller on the tv. Same with camera tubes. The timing is the same you are just stretching the lines our.
I've had one of these for almost 23 years now, picked up at an old-tyme electronics shop in Tulsa. It's a hinged lid 1076 with the instructions and 5 or 6 slides with different patterns. Still works good to this day, I have not had to replace any components, a testament to the high quality parts they used in it.
They were well built back then using capacitors with good old PCB oil in them.
I like 👍 retro TV 📺 equipment , stereos, record players, and the like 👍. Tube type electronics are my favorite 😍, taking me back to my childhood. Just be careful where ya poke the screwdriver 🪛. Ya can be hurt 😞 very badly, if not worse. Just a message of safety. Your friend, Jeff.
I am well aware of high voltage. I cut my teeth on tube gear and have been jolted more times over the past 50 years than I can remember. Screwdriver handle is plastic and thus insulated when pulling that 12kv arc.
I had a BK 1077b and a BK 415 I paid $399.95 for the 1077b was alot of money in 1973 and it worked fantastic great video
For sure that would have been a fortune back then. This one goes back to 65 and it was probably in the same price range.
In 69 my dad bought a Macintosh 1600 stereo. I thought my mother was going to kill him. She made him return it but the store wouldn't take it back so he hid it in the crawlspace for me to find 25 years later all chewed by rats. I still have it, but the wood cabinet is trashed.I need a craftsman to make a new cabinet for it.
I know this thing is useless now just a toy to haul out to impress people for what it is and how it worked. Its like that old 8mm deck with the U loading transport and PCM adapter. Its just cool to watch it work.and this when the cover is off with that UV tube and the slide generating a video signal. Almost worth recapping to see how much better I can make it look if any.
Years ago, I had a 1076 and later, I had a 1077. The 1077 had some solid-state circuitry, in addition to tube circuitry, and it provided drive signals for solid state vertical and horizontal sweep systems. I should have hung on to those pieces.
First shop i worked at in high school had a 1076.
My ears could still sense the frequency of the oscillator shifting back and forth when you adjusted the horizontal width towards the end of the video. Pretty cool.
Yup. I can still hear it but barely.
That is an awesome thing to see. I would have love to been born during the time when TV stations were being built and see flip the channel dial around and watch a station go on the air and see the test pattern. The places that piece of equipment has been over the decades.
The one B&K used was loosely based on the 1941/47 NBC design.
Great demonstration of this interesting device. Two small points: the tube phosphor emits violet light, not ultraviolet, and there is no phosphorus used in any CRTs. As counterintuitive as it sounds, phosphorus is not phosphorescent!
The phosphor (have yo override the spell check for the grammar police) certainly is uv. It appears vilot to your eyes just as the uv tubes in bug zapppes and they are uv-a as this tube is. Black lights are also the same there another type of backlight that uses woods glass and that is called blacklight blue (BLB) which uses a dark blue glass to filter out the vilot portion of the spectrum its the invisible uv spectrum that the photomultuplier tube is most sensitive to .
We had the B&K 1076 and the 415 sweep marker generator
Great Video ! I just picked up this exact unit up from a Hamfest last weekend.
They are a blast from the past alright.
I seen someone else on youtube that had something like that, it used film slides for patterns. I find this stuff fascinating.
I know Shango has a 1076, which is a newer version. This is the 1075. Similar but 1076 does more. The shop I started at had a 1076. I'll recap this one some day but it appears to be working fine with the old caps and this is not something that will see much of any use other than a collector item.
@@12voltvids I was about to mention this...lol. I had recently watched his video about it...His was in way worse condition than yours though.
@@ThatOneTruckGuy well mine is actually in great shape considering the age.
Back in the day, I kean 80s and early mid 90s theu used to broadcast this on tv when there was no program scheduled for boradcast.
They did it on every station from sign off till sign on. Back in 60s they use a monoscope camera. Once color tv hit they started running color bars all night. After 11 o'clock news they would run the late movie then sign off and start up again at 6 am with the morning news. Usual sign off tone about 2 after the late movie.
Then the 24 hour stations started.
I remember when they actually shut the transmitters off. Sign off play national anthem then monoscope or color bars for a few minutes then power off and signal fade away. I should have shown the shut down if this generator as it sure brought back memories. I'll shoot an ending using it before i put it away. It goes off just like the tv transmitter did as like the transmitter it's tubes. Kill the b+ and the power just fades to snow.
@@12voltvids LOL, I remember those days also, early '70s in my case. Turn on your TV at, say, 3 o'clock in the morning, and get the color bars plus the loud tone, or just snow with the loud "ssshhh" sound. I seem to recall there being one channel in our area that ran old black-and-white '40s and '50s movies through the night. Also, I remember one of the TV shows that came on really early in the morning was The Jack LaLanne Show. Remember him, the exercise and fitness guy? I wonder, did CTV or CBC run his show?
It still amazes me how they managed to make things work in the past, I got an old Tube pattern generator in my own storage but I don´t think that have a crt like this one, I think I actually wanna have a look inside and see what it got, I never did since I fixed a solid state one I use for that purpose. But I actually got curious what´s inside my old generator ha ha
I had a real simple poor man's video signal generator in the 80s due to my cheap prick boss. It was an old video camera and some cardboard alignment charts in a light box with 2 40 watt lightbulbs. Was crude but it worked well enough for convergence adjustments when CRT was replaced.
@@12voltvids well every method counts but you never get better than your tools as I always say. But A tool is better than No tool.
And I actually went and grabbed my old signal generator in the basement and had a look at it. It is a Nordmende FSG957/II.
Just by eyeballing it I find so many ugly Rifas inside of it, guagh. A tube that absolutely lost vacuum. Some rotten resistors and corrosion.
I am sure I have spare tubes for the broken one. Rifas should be replaced on sight and these have cracked open like dried mud in the dessert. I should have that too.
I made some random tests on some caps that is either foil or paper in oil types and they show some leaked current both on my own tester and with voltage applied to them but probably within operational limits.
I could probably fix it and I might do that if I get enough motivation.
I have to replace all the Rifas before I can perform a Dim bulb Variac reforming on it. I won’t change any unnecessary caps on this one before I know it gonna be worth it so. But it could be fun to see what this can do compared to my newer pattern generator :)
It seems to work quite well for something that's completely original and was new circa 1965.
I would say so.
Great seeing these old devices working.
Very interesting unit. I've never seen one before. First time for everything.
I think I will do a full restore on this.
I have two 1077b versions I imported from the states as we didn’t have these in the uk . I find them fun and very useful for tv experiments and repairs I do have a few us sets but it does work well on the uk 625 standard although I use a uhf modulator for this . The horizontal drive has helped many times checking flyback faults
Its a cool old piece of tech that is appreciated because you can see what it is doing.Chips are boring. This you can see the image on the flying spot scanner how cool is that. Its almost worth recapping it some day for shits and giggles.
The mic connectors can be replaced with BNCs, the hole sizes are the same. It could use a recap if you want to use it regularly.
I have get some caps as i don't have any this size there are about 10 that should be done. Might change the RF connector as well when i get back on it. This is not something that will see much if any use though other than to play with. More for nostalgia than anything.
@@12voltvidsI was surprised recently to find out that those old microphone connectors are still available. They are Switchcraft 2501F and Digikey has them for about US$10.
Anyway, that's a cool bit of kit. Thanks for showing it.
@@Lane42Also, Philmore Electronics markets them as well.
Great video, thanks for showing us.
That is too funny I have that exact unit in my stuff !
What did something like that cost back in the day?
Lots. Thousands.
27:59 I think color TV broadcasting didn't start in Canada until 1969 or so. Did your parents have a color set fairly early on? Per Wikipedia, Vancouver, BC was one of the first areas in Canada to have cable TV service.
My grandmother had a Philips k6 color tv in 1967.
The first cable TV operation on Canada was the sunshine coast (coast cable) founded by stan Thomas in the early 60s. The first system he strung a coaxial line from an antenna up on a mountain through the trees and then along fences through back yards. Back then it was called MATV. Master antenna TV. Soon he had a business model and started wiring the community. In 1965 he moved to Delta and started delta cable. The first connections started on beach grove road as the antenna tower was out in farm land off the end of beach grove road. The cable ran on poles run along dyke road. They connected first customers in 1967 in beach grove and my grandmother was one if the first to get connected as this neighborhood was the first to be connected as the build started here and worked west and north. I remember watching the moon landing in color. Well Walter Cronkite was in color. They only took a monochrome camera to the moon the first time. Delta cable was the pioneer of cable TV. I worked for them for 4 years 79-83 started when i was in high school as a volunteer in the community tv production side of the business. When finished high school went to bcit and took a TV production course. (I was working at the first tv repair shop for pay during this time too) when i finished bcit I was hired for master control at the community station delta tv. Things didn't work out though as I was aparantly "too eager to learn" how the equipment worked which annoyed the engineer as I would clean the heads on a vtr myself rather than call him. (Even though he had shown me how to do it including the fingernail trick) he saw me as a threat to his job. One day the old man called me into his office and offered me a job on the technical side, and that was working for the cable plant side and not the community tv side. Offered me a position at Delta electronics in the assembly plant. Being a pioneer in cable TV there wasn't much that they didn't do in-house. Delta electronics fabricated in house cable splitters and directional taps that went on trunk lines and built catv amplifiers. They sold to every cable company on Canada. Delta electronics and Holland electronics were the 2 big players in catv infrastructure. Alpha was another they built the ups boxes that powered up the coax trunk lines. Anyway being young and dumb i declined that offer and left the company when I landed a job at Sony in spring of 83. Did a year there and then went to the local independent Sony warranty depot and stayed there 19 years. I kuck myself now as I could have taken that job building catv splitters moved into amplifiers and then who knows but one thing for sure I would be long retired with a fat pension now because the CATV side of the business was IBEW. As they say hind sight is 20/20. Same with phone company. I applied at bctel when I was in grade 12 hoping to land a job there as my uncle and cousin worked there. Unfortunately the quota was filled in March and i didn't graduate till June so that ship sailed. They didn't start mass hiring again until 2004 when the first batch of the 75-81 hires started retiring at 25 years. I applied again 2004.
@@12voltvids The cable service must've been a real boon to Vancouver at the time, since there were only 3 or 4 stations people could pick up with just rabbit ears or a typical home roof antenna of the era, I'm guessing. Did Delta Cable's antenna tower pull in the Seattle stations pretty well?
@@angryshoebox yes before cable 4 5 and 7 were snow storms after cable clear as a bell. They moved cbc from 2 to 3, 4 and 5 were in original location as was 7, channel 6 was left on 6, 8 moved to 11 and 12 to 13. Channel 10 was the community channel.
i own the 1076 model i need to dig it out of storage and get it working again
Your old boss sounds as mean as mine was, if you needed a test pattern your only option
was to wait for one of the TV channels to put on a test card, this drove me nuts.
It all changed when colour came along then i insisted on a colour bar and pattern
generator of my choice or i left, to my shock he agreed, and i had a shiny new labgear
one they were not cheap.
You can't setup a TV correctly without one.
He was a prick all right. Had no signal generators. Always wanted a sencore but boss was too cheap. I had to supply my own scope soldering iron and dmm. I wasn't buying tools for him to make money off of. One night after closing i needed my scope at home so I went to the shop at about 8 pm on a sat to get it and returned it Sunday evening so it was ready Monday morning. He found our and took my key away so i started taking my scope meter and soldering iron home every night and bribging it in the morning and that really pissed him off so he docked me 30 minutes pay every day for the time I wasted loading and unloading my tools every day.
That is what i call a bad boss, i think the trade makes them that way.
It came as no surprise but still a shock when my boss and his brother inlaw were fined for fiddling the VAT
Education repairs were VAT exempt, so they put them all down as education and kept the VAT
it closed the place, all i was allowed to do was collect my own gear but i also kept the jigs and test discs
for Laser Disc players.
I then went self employed for 3 years and made a fortune, but they stopped selling spares to anyone who
was not an authorised dealer, that was when i started work for the MOD on test gear etc.
It was great, good wages and no customers to deal with.@@12voltvids
34:34 install an ant farm for live insect video.
Wonder if it had a cross hatch pattern slide?
Yes there was a cross hatch slide, and gray scale and multi burst. Unfortunately the only one I have is the one in the unit.
The hardest thing I found to get my head around was that when the frame output starts to fail and collapse from the bottom of the UV phosphor screen (due to failing capacitors) the actual output image starts to elongate. Due to the photo-tube receiving the lines in less time, it spreads the output over the same time no matter what the input rate is, so it appears stretched... as you can see I still don't fully understand it. Or at least I'm not very good at explaining what I think I understand LOL.
It's a mirror image. Increase the scan on the scanner and the picture gets smaller on the tv. Same with camera tubes.
The timing is the same you are just stretching the lines our.
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