[Heath] Fwd: Farewell, GR-2000

[Guy Giacopuzzi]

I went thru a similar experience about 6 months ago...just before I quit 
Heath, I bought a GR-2000 for my parents...put it together over xmas 
1976...then went to dental school...about 15 years later they wanted 
something newer, and gave it to me...we used it till a couple years ago, 
then, when trying to put it into storage, somehow damaged the pic 
tube...I actually considered trying to find a new one, but decided there 
were other Heathkits that were more worthy of saving (like SB series 
radios....)  But I agree, it really hurts emotionally to get rid of 
something you built and brought to life.  While I'm quite serious about 
my dentistry and a bit of a student of cell biology, I philosophize 
probably a bit too much..... a radio, a TV, well...it's like their 
almost organisms in their own right...well,. back to reality...

Guy

On 2/8/2011 3:17 PM, N4ch at aol.com wrote:
> Hello All,
> I too can't quite bring myself to dispose of the two "old technology" 
> Heathkit TV sets I have.   I still have the GR-2000 that I built back 
> in 1977 or 1978, and it still works.   Only problem in 35 years: one 
> bad IC, which was easily replaced.   Although the '2000 still works 
> fine, I "replaced" it in the den with a GR-2700.   Actually, I bought 
> this newer kit about 25 years ago, and didn't build the thing until 
> about 10 years after that.   It too has been a gem; no failures at all 
> in the 15 years since it was assembled, and it has had MANY hours of 
> use.   I'm watching it right now.........it works just fine with the 
> 12-14 year old satellite TV receiver and my Obama-financed D-to-A 
> converter box for watching local channels.   Just can't quite bring 
> myself to replacing the '2700 with one of the new Chinese HDTV sets.
> I actually got a lot more satisfaction out of building the older 
> Heathkit GR-2000 than I did assembling the newer Heath/Zenith 
> '2700...........the latter had very little electrical assembly, other 
> than assembling one generator board followed by mechanically mounting 
> and interconnecting all the pre-wired, tested, and aligned 
> circuitry.   The '2000 electronics were over 90% put together by the 
> kit builder, and alignment was (out of necessity) a lot more 
> involved.   I enjoyed every minute of it.   I took my life in my hands 
> when building both TVs; the manuals warned me about the importance of 
> having some help when installing and securing the picture tube, but I 
> managed to do all the assembly (including this) with no help.
> 73, Herman, N4CH.
>
>
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