I still find it a bit of an anticlimax that modern TVs are pretty dead from
the smell point of view. Having for most of my life had TVs with valves and
a CRT, one gets used to the hot singed paxolin and Ozone smell as you turn
them on for a while.

Older sets had that decidedly musty smell as all the accumulated dust inside heated up.
Unfortunately, modern LCDs tend to run cool and very seldom smell of
anything at all.
Brian
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On Sat, 4 Mar 2023 09:41:11 -0000
"Brian Gaff" <[email protected]> wrote:

I still find it a bit of an anticlimax that modern TVs are pretty
dead from the smell point of view. Having for most of my life had TVs
with valves and a CRT, one gets used to the hot singed paxolin and
Ozone smell as you turn them on for a while.

Older sets had that decidedly musty smell as all the accumulated dust
inside heated up.
Unfortunately, modern LCDs tend to run cool and very seldom smell of anything at all.
Brian

I mentioned in another thread the TV set we had as students, that came
from an Indian family, and stank of curry until it had burned off.
Maybe that's not quite what you mean, though...

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Jeez remember the Thorn 14/1500 when the tripler went..

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On 04/03/2023 09:41, Brian Gaff wrote:

I still find it a bit of an anticlimax that modern TVs are pretty dead from the smell point of view. Having for most of my life had TVs with valves and
a CRT, one gets used to the hot singed paxolin and Ozone smell as you turn them on for a while.

Older sets had that decidedly musty smell as all the accumulated dust inside heated up.
Unfortunately, modern LCDs tend to run cool and very seldom smell of anything at all.
Brian

I would have thought that that was a *good* thing!
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In message <ttv7uc$v27t$[email protected]>, Davey <[email protected]d>
writes

On Sat, 4 Mar 2023 09:41:11 -0000
"Brian Gaff" <[email protected]> wrote:

I still find it a bit of an anticlimax that modern TVs are pretty
dead from the smell point of view. Having for most of my life had TVs
with valves and a CRT, one gets used to the hot singed paxolin and
Ozone smell as you turn them on for a while.

Older sets had that decidedly musty smell as all the accumulated dust
inside heated up.
Unfortunately, modern LCDs tend to run cool and very seldom smell of
anything at all.
Brian

I mentioned in another thread the TV set we had as students, that came
from an Indian family, and stank of curry until it had burned off.
Maybe that's not quite what you mean, though...

I would regard a smell of curry as a positive. :)
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On Sat, 4 Mar 2023 20:57:39 +0000
John Hall <[email protected]> wrote:

In message <ttv7uc$v27t$[email protected]>, Davey
<[email protected]d> writes

On Sat, 4 Mar 2023 09:41:11 -0000
"Brian Gaff" <[email protected]> wrote:

I still find it a bit of an anticlimax that modern TVs are pretty
dead from the smell point of view. Having for most of my life had
TVs with valves and a CRT, one gets used to the hot singed paxolin
and Ozone smell as you turn them on for a while.

Older sets had that decidedly musty smell as all the accumulated
dust inside heated up.
Unfortunately, modern LCDs tend to run cool and very seldom smell
of anything at all.
Brian

I mentioned in another thread the TV set we had as students, that
came from an Indian family, and stank of curry until it had burned
off. Maybe that's not quite what you mean, though...

I would regard a smell of curry as a positive. :)

Very, very stale curry, though, is not so good.

My brother was at Oxford University, and one of his boarding house mates
was a Pakistani called Javed. When they went out for a curry, Javed
would talk to the waiter, and the food that was delivered would
take the roof off my brother's mouth. Javed just ate it with no
hesitation.
Javed has not been heard from for a while. His family name is
Musharraf, and his brother's name was Pervez. Pakistani politics is a
very volatile concept.

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On Sat, 04 Mar 2023 09:41:11 +0000, Brian Gaff wrote:

I still find it a bit of an anticlimax that modern TVs are pretty dead
from the smell point of view. Having for most of my life had TVs with
valves and a CRT, one gets used to the hot singed paxolin and Ozone
smell as you turn them on for a while.

Older sets had that decidedly musty smell as all the accumulated dust
inside heated up.
Unfortunately, modern LCDs tend to run cool and very seldom smell of anything at all.
Brian

I have seen a reference to smelly vision on tv

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Yes but that is intentional, and works a bit like vaping cartridges, another chance to sell folk consumables.
No I used to work in a department called regional repairs, which got in all the pcbs from sets in the field all over the country that had been on
rental, and the board changer had simply swapped out the duff board.
Some were disgusting, with thick black muck half way up the valves if they were left in. Te pcbs were bent and warped and often carbonised around the valve holders, with burned out resistors just bridged with a new one or a capacitor cut off and one bridged under the pcb. Obviously the local
engineer ran out of good pcbs and bodged up duff ones quickly.
We ended up washing all the boards in a solvent and sometimes ultrasound baths, replacing known problem components that caused stock faults,
Araldite up the carbonised bit after cleaning out the charred stuff and then bridging wires over to the valve pins. The issue was that people did not
want a shiny new set, they liked their old one, and as none used aerials,
they were all cabled up, because often in places like low lying areas and
the welsh valleys had no signal, we were the one way to get TV..
The test rigs were in effect TV sets with the pcb in question brought out
into a test frame.
Brian

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On Sat, 04 Mar 2023 09:41:11 +0000, Brian Gaff wrote:

I still find it a bit of an anticlimax that modern TVs are pretty dead
from the smell point of view. Having for most of my life had TVs with
valves and a CRT, one gets used to the hot singed paxolin and Ozone
smell as you turn them on for a while.

Older sets had that decidedly musty smell as all the accumulated dust
inside heated up.
Unfortunately, modern LCDs tend to run cool and very seldom smell of
anything at all.
Brian

I have seen a reference to smelly vision on tv

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On 06/03/2023 11:13, Brian Gaff wrote:

Yes but that is intentional, and works a bit like vaping cartridges, another chance to sell folk consumables.

Nowadays you don't need a physical consumable with TVs as the whole TV
is the consumable!

(The problem with the consumables tactic is that you get undercut by
after market suppliers and have to keep increasing the number of blades
in your razors to keep the market.)

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What has that to do with the price of fish?
No I was merely saying that smellavision has been tried but I really don't
see the appeal. Just imagine a programme on Skunks or sewage engineers in Smellyvision?
3D never caught on did it, so until you can do something like Abba Voyage
in your front sitting room at a reasonable cost, I think we are stuck with
the status quo, but I can still nostalgically smell in my memory the smell from a trusty old b/w TV.
Brian

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On 06/03/2023 11:13, Brian Gaff wrote:

Yes but that is intentional, and works a bit like vaping cartridges,
another
chance to sell folk consumables.

Nowadays you don't need a physical consumable with TVs as the whole TV is
the consumable!

(The problem with the consumables tactic is that you get undercut by after market suppliers and have to keep increasing the number of blades in your razors to keep the market.)

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