This is not an ad, nor am I affiliated... just a heads-up and good news I believe. I've been in regular contact with Tom who sells the excellent high resolution scans of Rider Radio books on DVD. I've been after him to do hi-rez scans of the Rider TV books as well. And it looks like after almost a year, he's getting started on them:

Sent Date: Apr-10-12 06:29:58 PDT

We are actively working on the Riders TV volumes (27 volumes) now. 2 are done so far.

Best regards,
Tom KE3GK

I'll keep anyone and all interested in the loop as he progresses.

Mark

Will be interesting to see how they handle some of the huge fold-out schematics in Rider 1 and 2. I actually had to resort to a digital camera for those, and it is very hard to get a good image quality that way. On the other hand, if a big schematic gets cut into 4 or more pages that you have to piece together, that is also no good. Obviously they have a pretty big format scanner, since all the volumes from 3 onward are larger than letter sized pages.

Overall, this is great news. Probably means that those of us scanning for ETF should concentrate on the early (no copyright) Sams.

Agree - and focus on some of the factory service manuals that might not be complete in Riders.

Sometimes I scan in huge schematics in sections and stitch them up in photoshop. Turn them to "greyscale" in photoshop to lower the file size a bit. Even use "levels" in photoshop to clean up the contast. Pretty time consuming, and requires a methodical process.

Microsoft has a free program that stitches images together seamlessly.

Update May 29th:

Mark - We are half way thru the Riders TV sets - summer messes things up - always seem to be on vacation. I probably do have other TV factory manuals, I just have to look.

Thanks to Mark (Mbear) and his prodding, We have been scanning the Riders TV books.

Only a few more volumes to go and they will be done.

We do need a few pages if anyone has the paper copies. The ones we have are pretty well damaged.

If you can send us the paper copies, we will return in same condition and reimburse shipping $.

For the (blank?) pages in V12, I just need to verify that they’re really blank. If they’re not I need to borrow them.

V07 Motorola pgs 55-58 (wide)

V08 General Electric 29-30

V08 General Electric 31-32

V08 Motorola pgs 35-38 (wide)

V08 Stewart-Warner 35-38 (wide)

V08 Changes 5-6

V09 Hallicrafters 33-36 (wide)

V09 Interstate Stores 13-14

V09 Interstate Stores 15-16

V09 Muntz 17-20 (wide)

V09 Philco 5-6

V09 Philco 7-8

V09 Philco 9-10

V09 Pilot 11-14 (wide)

V09 Record Changers Zenith 1-8 (2 sheets)

V09 Changes 20

V09 Changes 30 (plus any pages after that)

V10 Meck 3-4

V10 Meck 5-6

V10 Western Auto Supply 31-32

V11 Packard Bell 13-14

V12 Capehart-Farnsworth 8 (blank?)

V12 Dumont 6 (blank?)

V12 Fada 12 (blank?)

V12 Hallicrafters 12 (blank?)

V12 National Electronic 10 (blank?)

V12 Radio Corporation Of America 56 (blank?)

V12 Radio Corporation Of America 68 (blank?)

V13 Title pg

V13 Other Publications

V13 Admiral 1-2

V13 Admiral 3-4

V13 Admiral 13-16 (not sure if wide or not)

V13 Dumont 13-16 (wide)

V13 Motorola 7-8

V13 Motorola 9-10

V13 Setchell-Carlson 7-10 (wide)

V13 Zenith 31-34 (wide)

V14 Title pg

V14 Other Publications

V14 Admiral 1-2

V14 Admiral 3-4

V14 Western Auto Supply 69-70

V14 Western Auto Supply 71-72

V14 Western Auto Supply 73-74

V14 Western Auto Supply 75-76

V16 Title pg

V16 Other Publications

V16 Admiral 1-2

V16 Raytheon 11-12

V16 Western Auto Supply 19-20

V16 Western Auto Supply 21-22

V16 Western Auto Supply 23-24

V18 Zenith 17-18

V18 Zenith 19-20

V27 Title pg

V27 Other Publications

V27 Transistor Radio General Electric pgs 15-16

email eolfyvasn6df@comcast.net to get physical address to send copies to

Tom - I have volumes 8 & 10. Let me take a look.

I think I have many of those. I'll take a look as well and get back to you.

I checked and can do everything you need for V8 and V10. Will pull from the books and send this week.

Mark

Great ! Thanks.

I appreciate your help.

Sending the following pages out to Tom and Toby tomorrow:

V08 General Electric 29-30
V08 General Electric 31-32
V08 Motorola pgs 35-38 (wide)
V08 Stewart-Warner 35-38 (wide)

V10 Meck 3-4
V10 Meck 5-6
V10 Western Auto Supply 31-32

The one page from V08 I cannot provide is V08 Changes 5-6. My copy is not usable.

Mark

I was able to locate to follow pages from your list. I also verified that all the v12 pages are indeed blank.

* V07 Motorola pgs 55-58 (wide)

* V08 Changes 5-6

* V09 Hallicrafters 33-36 (wide)
* V09 Interstate Stores 13-14
* V09 Interstate Stores 15-16
* V09 Muntz 17-20 (wide)
* V09 Philco 5-6
* V09 Pilot 11-14 (wide)
* V09 Changes 20
* V09 Changes 30 (plus any pages after that)

* V11 Packard Bell 13-14 (Page 14 is a repeat of page 12 in my copy.)

* V13 Dumont 13-16 (wide) (My copy is a little rough)
* V13 Motorola 7-8
* V13 Motorola 9-10
* V13 Setchell-Carlson 7-10 (wide)

* V14 Western Auto Supply 69-70
* V14 Western Auto Supply 71-72
* V14 Western Auto Supply 73-74
* V14 Western Auto Supply 75-76

* V27 Title pg
* V27 Transistor Radio General Electric pgs 15-16

That leaves these pages. I hope someone can provide them.

V09 Philco 7-8
V09 Philco 9-10
V09 Record Changers Zenith 1-8 (2 sheets)

V13 Title pg
V13 Other Publications
V13 Admiral 1-2
V13 Admiral 3-4
V13 Admiral 13-16 (not sure if wide or not)
V13 Zenith 31-34 (wide)

V14 Title pg
V14 Other Publications
V14 Admiral 1-2
V14 Admiral 3-4

V16 Title pg
V16 Other Publications
V16 Admiral 1-2
V16 Raytheon 11-12
V16 Western Auto Supply 19-20
V16 Western Auto Supply 21-22
V16 Western Auto Supply 23-24

V18 Zenith 17-18
V18 Zenith 19-20

V27 Other Publications