Made the trip to Pierce, Arizona to pick up the Heathkit and the Fada 930, and also got a couple of bonus items. The Heathkit is a 1965 model that was built by the owner's father, who was a TV service technician. The CRT in the Heathkit is a Sylvania Color Bright 85, which is a Grade A rebuilt. Emissions on all three guns check OK, but even though I got good emissions on the blue gun, I couldn't get the gun balance to adjust properly. I'm going to run the filaments for a couple of hours to wake the tube up tomorrow evening when I get home from work. I even got the original Heathkit manual for the set, plus a few spare parts like a yoke and a few other goodies. The set, of course, didn't come with a cabinet, but I did get the cabinet that the original owner "repurposed" back in 1965 to house the set. Cool.
The Fada 930 is complete and has a rebuilt aluminized CRT with a date code of 1979, so I'm guessing the set was still in use until at least the early '80s. The 12BP4 checks just barely in the "good" zone, so I'm going to try to wake that tube up as well.
The owner had a spare 21-inch rectangular CRT that I got as well. Emissions check barely OK as well, so that one also might wake up. I don't have a set for this one, but if I didn't take it, it would have gone to the dump
