Hey all,

It's my first time posting here, I hope I'm not breaking any rules with how images are uploaded or anything haha.

Anyway, I've found an old Astor something-or-other CRT TV on verge-side chuckout, and I'm having a really hard time identifying what the exact make and model is. I've put absolutely everything about the thing on my OneDrive (link below), that includes photos of the exterior, interior, all the little labels on the back and HD scans of the schematics I found inside.

I'm not 100% sure what I'm going to do with it yet. It still turns on (to my own surprise), and can be tuned into AM Radio stations. I think the first thing I'll do is try to clean all the dust out, but I'm weary to go poking around because of how dangerous these things can be; I'm not super confident in my abilities with electronics.

Anyway! If anyone's got some spare time, I'd really appreciate it if they could take a look at all the photos on my onedrive and try their best to ID this thing. It'd be cool to know exactly when it was made, it'd be better if I could get a set of schematics without holes in it.

https://1drv.ms/u/s!Ak60DwOwHkV7m5ssQDt75MaRm0l68Q?e=5wYD6q

Cheers,
Oliver.

Welcome Oliver!

Your TV is a Series 11 Astor chassis from around 1970. It's a hybrid.

I have one of these. Mine was badly damaged by mice infestation. But it now works.

This was the last Astor chassis before it was superseded by the all solid state Philips C1 chassis, after the takeover.

The C1 was actually designed by Pye in Marrickville. It was based on the Pye T26. Pye continued to build the T26 while they were tooling up for colour. Philips adopted the C1 to replace their very outdated and expensive to build hybrid chassis.

If your Series 11 was built with Anodeon transistors (later builds had Philips transistors) expect to have to replace them if you want a reliable TV.

I use mine to watch old B&W movies. The Series 11 is a reasonable performer for such a simple design but lacks features like stabilised deflection, which means the picture shrinks momentarily when the aircon kicks in!

The CRT will be a Philips and will probably be OK.

If it's running, just blow the dist off the PCB with an air hose and leave it at that! There are no paper caps in it and Ducon electrolytics were pretty good by the time that TV was made.

The schematic shows it to be a hybrid set, with 5 valves: 1S2, 6AL3, 6CM5, 6GW8, 6GV8.

It says Astor Series 11, but not the actual model number (unless DZ on the addendum sheet means something).

Did you say AM radio stations? If you're getting radio on channels 3,4,5 then it's FM.

EDIT: Looks like Ian and I posted at the same time...

I am also curious about the actual model. The only clues so far is the Series 11 chassis and the DZ control head.

The model designation should start with TB0??, TD0?? or TE0?? with "DZ" on the end.

See TV Collectors thread on Astor TV: https://vintage-radio.com.au/default.asp?f=10&th=3&offset=1