From my antique sets to yours, hope you all have a very healthy and happy 2014!

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Happy New Year to all

Happy New Year!

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Happy New Year everyone! :beerchug:

Let 2014 be the year we all have more room to expand our hobby and collections. May all your repairs be successful. HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE.

Happy New Year 2014 on a 1950 TV set, an Admiral bakelite console:
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No flash, CRT brightness and contrast adjusted barely visible to the eye but decent to the camera, but it's still noisy.

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Spent New Years' w/my Wife at my ex G/f's & Mothers' house... Mamaw & Kim have more or less "Adopted" us, & we're FAMILY, more or less.. We LOVE them, & consider them "Family" above all...Mamaw is Bethany's "Great Grandmother", but she considers LA Logan's "Grandmother" for all practical purposes..

Decided to watch the ball drop on an 8" RCA that I just finished up.
Set has a like new CRT and makes a very good picture..

Here's a few pics snapped just before 11:00 PM California time.
Foreground 8"RCA, background 50" Panasonic, 53 years of technology between them.

Oh, I had me a bunch of sets goin. Nine total. I ran out of plugs! :)

A rough guesstimate was that I had 98 tubes lit last night. Prolly coulda buzzed wood on my electric meter :D

Happy new year! :)

Happy new year! Sitting at Starbucks having my morning coffee. As predicted, I fell asleep on the sofa last night before midnight.

Do you guys out West get the ball drop feed live from NYC, or is it delayed until it's actually the new year out there?

We get it in real time. Since we're not on daylight savings time, the ball drops at 10:00 here, though I did miss it..........

Happy New Year everyone. It never occurred to me to fire up an old TV. Instead I was out flying my RC plane with lights on at the crack of the new year. It was -20 degrees Fahrenheit when I checked just before midnight. Even with gloves on my fingers froze up fast, and so I had to land at 7 minutes. Apparently I have my priorities messed up, although it's not much worse than snowmobiling. You just got to do the crazy stuff to make the winters pass by faster here. :)

Do you guys out West get the ball drop feed live from NYC, or is it delayed until it's actually the new year out there?

Out here in cilifornia it is delayed until it's actually the new year.

Well since I am spending time here in Australia, we kinda saw it before the "normal" time in America. :D

Happy New Year everyone. Hope this year is even better than last year.

The N.Y. drop I watched was delayed until Midnight California time.

The little RCA made it till then but the vertical did shift and shrink just a little by then, also these little sets run scorching hot, the area over the flyback and sweep tubes is nearly too hot to leave your hand on, no wonder all the flybacks have wax dripping out of them!

I used to watch the NY ball drop via big dish at 9pm and then revue at midnight

Smashed as hell last night hollared out the front door to the neighbors at 11:59:30

"GET READY F***ERS!! " :D

SR

Thanks for all the new years posts. Great to see all the old sets working in 2014. Happy new year everyone.

Happy New Year everyone. It never occurred to me to fire up an old TV. Instead I was out flying my RC plane with lights on at the crack of the new year. It was -20 degrees Fahrenheit when I checked just before midnight. Even with gloves on my fingers froze up fast, and so I had to land at 7 minutes. Apparently I have my priorities messed up, although it's not much worse than snowmobiling. You just got to do the crazy stuff to make the winters pass by faster here. :)

Winter is ideal for restoring old TV's and radio's.

This is the first home I had where the basement is nice and warm. :thmbsp:
They're predicting some real bitter cold weather, this coming week. :thumbsdn:

Agree it's a good time to retreat to the warm basement and do some restoration. However if I spend too much time down there I tend to get cabin fever and get bored doing too much of the same ol' thing. As I'm sure you know, January through April can seem like forever here in the Midwest. I sure hope it doesn't snow into May this year. :sigh:

Agree it's a good time to retreat to the warm basement and do some restoration. However if I spend too much time down there I tend to get cabin fever and get bored doing too much of the same ol' thing. As I'm sure you know, January through April can seem like forever here in the Midwest. I sure hope it doesn't snow into May this year. :sigh:

As you well know, being a fellow Wisconsinite, that this winter has been a real dandy, so far.
I'm retired for almost eight years now and seldom stay home all day. I have to go somewhere, being a thrift shop, Menards, Home depot, ETC. :scratch2:

If I ever get to retire, this will be the toughest time of year for sure. Driving around here in the little bit of snow we DO get sucks big time.

Everybody just HAS to go buy up all the bread milk and gas they can for some reason, so the roads are busy, and Im just trying to get home from work.

That's a real incentive to pipe the outdoor boiler loop into and insulate the barn-garage, where the big TVs are. I already got the pipes and radiator in the outbuilding I do the cabinet re-finishing in.