I went out Thrifting again today, hit Goodwill and found a few records, then I shot over to the Mormon Thrift Store nearby, they sometimes have older TV's for cheap.
I spotted what I thought was just a Radio/Phono combo but then I saw the owners manual said TV on it!
Pulled open the front doors and sure enough, I thought right off it was a 40 and it was.
The bad side is it's missing the entire back cover, I found a bit of the Tube Cup so I have a pretty good idea what happened to it.
It's also in a fairly ugly Mediterranean style cabinet, at least it doesn't have Red Velvet grille cloth.
It also weighs 400 pounds (give or take) it took three of us to get it in the Van, the one guy looked like a Football player and he took one end, me and the other guy got the other end, the van was noticeably slower with the load.
On the plus side the CRT (original CRT with a 1969 date code!) checks like new on all three guns, this surprised the heck out of me since I know that 40's will go through CRT's in a few years of hard use, this set must be low hours.
It has the beginnings of a Cataract but it looks like the type of PVA that will come off easily.
The Record changer is in beautiful condition, it even has the needle so it must not have been on the floor of the thrift long.
The cabinet is in decent condition with a few scratches and chips here and there, one lower corner looks like it got beat with the Vaccum a lot and has been painted to hide it, all in all a very decent set for $20.
Here's some pictures, note that I have all the knobs but I pulled them off and took them with me as soon as I bought it, there were kids in the store and they had been playing withe it earlier so I wanted to make sure they wouldn't get lost. (the knobs that is, I could care less if the kids got lost
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