28-01-2017, 11:24 AM
(28-01-2017, 02:48 AM)Nowhere-Man Wrote: We actually had a Bush cPolour TV that one day just caught fire in the living room. Smoke billowing from the back.
Ah - the Bush CTV25 - also known as the burning Bush!
There was a modification kit for them - it didn't stop them catching fire but simply turned the line output can into a Davy lamp by covering all the ventilation slots with wire gauze, thus containing the flames!
Dealers were supposed to retrofit the modification to sets in the field - I trust yours' had been modified!
In practice, I doubt many were sold without the mod as the problem occurred very early on - it happened to the demo sample that Bush supplied to us before the colour service proper started. Fortunately, Baird also supplied us with an M701 demo set about a week after the Bush arrived which we'd set up in the workshop. The first I knew of the Bush problem was returning from lunch one day to find a space where the Baird had been as it now occupied pride of place in the shop!
At least we got to assess the performance of the Bush before it packed up - unlike the next dealer who was due to receive the demo set the following week!
