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
--

--:
This newsgroup posting comes to you directly from...
The Sofa of Brian Gaff...
briang1@blueyonder.co.uk
Blind user, so no pictures please
Note this Signature is meaningless.!

On Sat, 4 Mar 2023 09:41:11 -0000
"Brian Gaff" <brian1gaff@gmail.com> 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...

--
Davey.

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

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!
--
Cheers,
Roger

In message <ttv7uc$v27t$1@dont-email.me>, Davey <davey@example.invalid>
writes
>On Sat, 4 Mar 2023 09:41:11 -0000
>"Brian Gaff" <brian1gaff@gmail.com> 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. :)
--
John Hall "Do you have cornflakes in America?"
"Well, actually, they're American."
"So what brings you to Britain then if you have cornflakes already?"
Bill Bryson: "Notes from a Small Island"

On Sat, 4 Mar 2023 20:57:39 +0000
John Hall <john_nospam@jhall.co.uk> wrote:

> In message <ttv7uc$v27t$1@dont-email.me>, Davey
> <davey@example.invalid> writes
> >On Sat, 4 Mar 2023 09:41:11 -0000
> >"Brian Gaff" <brian1gaff@gmail.com> 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.

--
Davey.

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

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

--

--:
This newsgroup posting comes to you directly from...
The Sofa of Brian Gaff...
briang1@blueyonder.co.uk
Blind user, so no pictures please
Note this Signature is meaningless.!
"Smolley" <me@rest.uk> wrote in message news:tu1p5k$19h45$1@dont-email.me...
> 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

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.)

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

--

--:
This newsgroup posting comes to you directly from...
The Sofa of Brian Gaff...
briang1@blueyonder.co.uk
Blind user, so no pictures please
Note this Signature is meaningless.!
"David Woolley" <david@ex.djwhome.demon.invalid> wrote in message
news:tu4j54$1m2t4$1@dont-email.me...
> 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.)