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Important Notice!After some time when I had taken on a second job, I am now preparing to resume full-time in the field of vintage electronics. That's right, everyone, Amptech Systems is about to return to full-time operation and to come back stronger than ever! Watch this space for announcements. I am currently making improvements to the shop, restocking my parts inventory, and verifying proper calibration of all equipment. I will be adding new parts to the Reproductions line and will resume restoring sets for sale on this site and/or eBay plus scheduling more incoming bench work than I had been accepting during the time when I had worked the other job. The loss of Jan and several other personal setbacks involving others' unsuccessful attempts to be the kind of partner Jan had been took a terrible toll on me, but I am back from a dark period. Going forward, I will be working mainly with television sets manufactured between 1938 and 1968. I will be referring most radio and audio work to a shop in Akron due to this shop's having a much more complete inventory of parts and supplies ideal for radio and audio servicing. My library of Photofact manuals is complete for televisions and television/radio combination sets, however, many audio and radio manuals are missing from my library. The "gap" in that part of my service literature library seems to span from 1955-1962, as if some of the non-television Photofacts had been discarded by a prior owner of that library. I carry only frequently-replaced parts in stock, such as capacitors, resistors, fuses, and certain vacuum tubes. I order any hard-to-find or not-often-replaced parts (deflection yokes, transformers, etc.) on an as-needed basis from vendors who specialize in vintage parts. Although I may not have that "deflection yoke for a 1955 Sparton" in stock, there is a good chance that I know of a vendor who can get a suitable replacement part. Inquiries are always welcome. The service facility upgrades are nearly complete. Installation of the third service bench was completed on 3/29/07. Most equipment maintenance and calibration has been completed except for a few items for which necessary parts have not yet arrived. All regular inventory parts have been restocked. MANY THANKS to JAMIE for her help and support, and to MY PARENTS for their assistance in making these upgrades possible. Our HistoryFirst established in 1981 as John's Repair, owner John Horvath brings his passion for music and his knowledge of electronics and computers together to produce classic valve-powered amplifiers and expand a part-time TV repair shop operated by a 16-year-old high school student into a viable business venture. The popularity of vintage television sets and radios as collectibles in recent years has given new life to one of John's favorite hobbies. The results are the Amptech Systems Restoration Shop and Parts Reproductions.
Our MissionTo bring the best elements of old and new technologies together in innovative product and service lines.
Long-Term ObjectivesA Tribute to American IndustryI am deeply saddened by the demise of the US consumer electronics industry. Although I'm barely old enough to remember when products such as radio and television receivers were produced in American factories by American workers. Some of my earliest childhood memories are of television. At home, that was an American-made Sylvania black-and-white set bought new in about 1967. My grandparents' three 1966-vintage American-made Zenith sets were the first color sets I had seen. Those sets continued in daily use well into the late 1980's. How many $99 imported sets will last 20 years or more? I believe that America has the best workforce in the world and that we can and should work hard to reclaim a significant share of the global market. Restoration of antique electronics is, for me, historic preservation of artifacts of a bygone era and a tribute to American inventors who created the technology, American entrepreneurs who built the manufacturing facilities and to American workers who made a living in those factories. The displacement of honest entrepreneurs by dishonest plutocrats during the past few decades disgusts me. Had the founders of RCA, Zenith, and other firms known what the sale of their companies would bring, I suspect that those individuals would have fought long and hard to retain control of the firms which they created. Roy Disney has expressed his disgust at the results of his brother's company coming under the control of persons outside the Disney family.
A Commitment to QualityI know I can't be the only one who's tired of $59 throw-away VCR's that just barely survive through their warranty period. I'd rather spend $400-$500 for one that will last 10 years than spend $59 every year for 10 years (do the math and the cheapie models cost more in the long run). Even if it's "obsolete" in a year because the new ones have new features, there's always someone who can't afford a new one, doesn't care about having the latest bells and whistles and will pay $100-$200 for a good used VCR. National SecurityMany of the countries where these throw-away products are made commit horrible atrocities against their citizens. Many manufacturers of these cheap units use slave labor. Some of these nations are the same ones described by President Bush as "the axis of evil" that helped Osama Bin Laden to orchestrate the atrocities of 9/11. I do not support regimes that support terrorism since I buy only products made by America and our most-trusted allies. Ironically, our own government practices a great hypocrisy by continuing "Most-Favored Nation" trade status for communist China ... despite China's human rights atrocities and its being a key component of "the axis of evil" which supports international terrorism.
Job CreationMy goals include the creation of new American manufacturing jobs through expansion of my company's array of products and services.
IdeologyDuring the latter half of the 20th Century, conditions in the United States began to increasingly resemble those in the former Soviet Union. The erosion of individual freedoms continues at an accelerating pace in the 21st Century. I believe that the time has come for sweeping reforms dedicated to restoring individual freedoms, preserving the advanced Western civilization which America was meant to be. This means stamping out widespread corruption and restoring our public institutions to sanity and common sense. This means limiting immigration and encouraging the assimilation of immigrants into Western society rather than allowing outsiders to mold America in the image of various Third World nations whose appalling condition was their reason for fleeing to America in the first place. This means supporting a strong American economy and bringing jobs which were lost due to the demonstrably-failed policies of Globalism back to America. I am a proud American dissident, speaking out against the fact that Washington D.C. and many State capitals have become havens for criminals who not only operate above the Law, but have actually seen to the re-writing and/or re-interpretation many of our laws so as to permit and encourage the treason which is rapidly transforming America from its original form of Constitutional Republic into a Plutocratic Dictatorship with Socialist Democracy as an intermediate step between the two extremes of total freedom and absolute tyranny. The former Soviet Union was a Communist Plutocracy. In its present form, the United States is a mixture of two systems of government (Republican under Common Law, and democratic under statutory law). The People enjoy their God-given natural rights in a Republic. In a democracy, the Citizens enjoy only government granted privileges (also known as civil rights). Restoration of the former conditions is dependent upon all Americans' having a solid understanding of the difference between the former and the latter. Thomas Jefferson said that freedom and ignorance are mutually-exclusive conditions. "If a nation expects to be ignorant and
free, in a state of civilization,
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