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<\/a><\/p>\nThe above photos were taken as Bob Swanner dug elbow-deep into these cameras with some serious dedication to getting them operational.\u00a0 I believe the blue chassis are after-market encoders, and that the original Norelco encoders were not part of these camera chains.\u00a0 Besides the Conrac RHA monitor sitting on the floor, there is a Ball Brothers (Miratel) monitor in the background.\u00a0The Mason jar manufacturer was also into video monitors and other equipment.\u00a0 The cameras likely put out video when first fired up, but it is for certain that they were in need of tubes, serious tweaking, all new registration pots, and about 2 gallons of contact cleaner.<\/p>\n In speaking of the generosity of other broadcast engineers, our search for “gently used” (this means pin-holes smaller than\u00a0.22 cal bullet holes)\u00a0Plumbicon tubes took us to WJET-TV in Erie, Pennsylvania.\u00a0 There, in a quonset hut on the outskirts of town…and directly under the transmitting tower, we were given at least one additional PC-60 camera chain, manuals, boxes of Plumbicons, and\u00a0genuine “fellow broadcaster hospitality” that you remember for the rest of your life.<\/p>\n If you want to see PC-60s in overwhelming depth and detail, visit this amazing site: Eyes of a Generation.<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Once we had cameras functioning in two studios, we turned our attention to a couple of Norelco PC-60s locked away in a storage room.\u00a0 There they sat, resting upon a couple of (leaky) TVP pneumatic pedestals.\u00a0 At that time, the … Continue reading <\/a><\/p>\n