Universal Replacement Parts Kit from Standard Kollsman Industries
October 1961 Radio-Electronics

November 1961 Radio-Electronics [Table of Contents] Wax nostalgic about and learn from the history of early electronics. See articles from Radio-Electronics, published 1930-1988. All copyrights hereby acknowledged.

Field service of electronic products like radios, televisions, and even tape recorders/players and phonographs, was still a common thing in 1961 when this promotion appeared in Radio-Electronics magazine. Those assemblies had a lot of parts, most of which no two were the same. That is the nature of analog circuits containing multiple stages of varying gains, frequencies, and voltage / current / power levels. Stocking and carrying a kit of replacement parts likely to be exact replacements or suitable substitutes for factory parts was imperative for efficient and profitable business. Many component companies were supplying kits like this one featuring coils (inductors) for TV tuners from Standard Kollsman Industries. Similar kits existed for resistors, capacitors, vacuum tubes, transformers, dial lamps, switches, mechanical hardware, etc. For some reason Sun Chemical, a manufacturer of commercial inks, decided to acquire Standard Kollsman Industries in 1972. The $27.99 price for the kit in 1961 is equivalent to $293.13 in 2024 money (a factor of 10.5x in 63 years; it was just 8.6x in 2020 - massive inflation, 22%, in just 4 years).

Universal Replacement Parts Kit from Standard Kollsman Industries

Universal Replacement Parts Kit

Model 31T 3890

Popular Standard Coil field replacement parts used extensively by servicemen for Standard tuners manufactured from 1947-1956.

Model 31T 3890 A kit of mechanical and electrical parts for shop and field use to be used in conjunction with Section II of the Standard Cross Reference Guide. These parts make up 90% of the replacement parts most commonly used in field service.

Included Free

• Special IF alignment tool for late model STANDARD TV and FM tuners.

• Popular special springs, detent springs and roller assembly, detent ball assemblies, etc.

Be Prepared ... Get Yours Today from any authorized Standard Coil distributor

• $27.99 Dealer Net

Standard Kollsman Industries Inc.

Formerly Standard Coil Products Co., Inc., Melrose Park, Illinois

Posted August 1, 2024