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 HMV Safary CRT tube wanted. A long shot
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 Return to top of page · Post #: 1 · Written at 6:33:02 PM on 18 June 2023.
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 LegsGT
 Location: Melbourne, VIC
 Member since 19 March 2022
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This is a really long shot.

Does anyone have a working 12 inch Philips tube that fit the HMV Safari they could sell? Or the whole telly I could gut? The tube model number is TPT-12-11. I'm sure that there are other equivalents out there as well?

It's a fair bit shallower than the more standard 12" CRT tubes from portables of the day.

This is the unit: https://www.radiomuseum.org/r/hismasters_safari_w4_e9_1114_w4.html
 
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 Ian Robertson
 Location: Belrose, NSW
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Yes I think I might have one of those. It's an AWV, not a Thomas (HMV used Thomas tubes, not Philips) but it's also 110 degree with the thin neck. I believe it came from an AWA P5.

Just a matter of finding it!!

My email is open....
 
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 Irext
 Location: Werribee South, VIC
 Member since 30 September 2016
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That set was one of the first fully solid state portable TV's back in the 70's.
If memory serves it has a germanium Hor o/p transistor which failed frequently and would be unobtainium now.
The CRT's didn't last very long either.


 
 Return to top of page · Post #: 4 · Written at 7:42:26 PM on 20 July 2023.
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 Shaneh
 Location: Creswick, VIC
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I have one of those sets in my collection and may also have a tube on its own.
Ill check over the next few days.
 
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