First Annual ETM Swapmeet - October 3

[BigDavesTV]

Here's a 14" RCA Color Portable, with stand, from about 1968, that I picked up at the ETM Meet, Saturday, that I'm particularly excited about, and happy to be the new caretaker of, for a while! I remember working on one, possibly two of these, back in my shop days, over 35 years ago. I had hoped to find one someday, and fortunately one showed up. It shows a better focus picture than my camera will show, seems to be a very good condition CRT. I have to do some cosmetic touch up on it's top painted side, but other than that, nice overall, with the typical VHF Channel numbers rubbed off the knob! I have a CTC-51 with the same VHF knob trouble. It makes a decent picture, even with it's many 5GH8's!

[drh4683]

Looks like everyone did well! Those are some nice finds.

Tim, that Solarcolor is a nice rare set. Those early 70's Admiral colors hardly ever show up no matter what part of the country you're in. I had a very nice early 70's solarcolor about 8 years ago and let it go. Same old story, we all had sets we wished we could have kept... That was one of them.

And Tom's magnavox is a neat set. I've got the exact same model with the matching cart, except for some reason the entire perimeter of the CRT bezel is badly cracked. It is very odd how that happened, but it looks like the plastic was under a lot of stress by the way the CRT mounts to it and over time, the plastic aged and cracked.

[Kamakiri]

Did a little bit of work to this one. It worked fine but the face of the picture tube was badly scratched. Just by luck I picked up an identical parts set a week before the meet, so I swapped out the picture tubes. What an easy chassis to service!!

Model number AH054H, Sams dates it to 1965.

And Tom, I had to laugh....really hard!! I was pulling the chassis and one of your spider's babies (I assume) crawled out from behind the tuner

Cute little guy, probably the size of an eraser head. I laid him to rest

[DavGoodlin]

Originally Posted by Kamakiri

Did a little bit of work to this one. It worked fine but the face of the picture tube was badly scratched. Just by luck I picked up an identical parts set a week before the meet, so I swapped out the picture tubes. What an easy chassis to service!!

Model number AH054H, Sams dates it to 1965.

And Tom, I had to laugh....really hard!! I was pulling the chassis and one of your spider's babies (I assume) crawled out from behind the tuner

Cute little guy, probably the size of an eraser head. I laid him to rest

This 16" RCA and Big Daves CTC22 were good examples of RCA in the mid-60s, probably a bit less expensive than their Zenith Counterparts. When RCA dropped Victor in 1968, their sets got kindsa crummy - and stayed that way until the XL-100 and Colortrack saved them - IMAO

I have to attend this swap meet with a few fun sets Id like to pass along

[rca2000]

THIS is what I brought back...

It is a 19 Emerson portable BW....with a COLD chassis and a 5U4 rct tube !! I had seen a pic of one of these...but NEVER thought I would actually OWN one !!

VERY good tube---checks VERY well on the CR-70..even down to 4.5 volts--good emission.


Pics::

My CAT ANGEL..even seem to like the chassis !!

[Kamakiri]

Originally Posted by drh4683

Tim, that Solarcolor is a nice rare set. Those early 70's Admiral colors hardly ever show up no matter what part of the country you're in. I had a very nice early 70's solarcolor about 8 years ago and let it go. Same old story, we all had sets we wished we could have kept... That was one of them.

Weirdest tube complement ever!!!

26LW6 - Horiz output
5JW8 - Horiz osc
10T10 - audio output
11CH11 - AGC keyer, sig. amp, video amp
8CB11 - 3rd IF chroma amp
8AR11 - 1st/2nd IF
8BU11 - Sync clipper, burst gate amp, subcarrier amp
9AM10 - color amp
10GF7A - Vertical amp/output
4LJ8 - mixer
2HA5 - VHF amp
19DK3 - Damper

My tester won't even do half of these.......

[DavGoodlin]

Nice set. That was in the solid-built BW days, like 1963?
Chassis number is 6 digits beginning with 120___
Hope it passed the sniff test, lloks like she approves

[Electronic M]

I considered buying that set, but the seller had all but the price on the tag (why tag it at all if no pricing?) and I did not get a good chance to ask him what he wanted.

Glad it's in good hands.

[Kamakiri]

I absolutely couldn't believe that one guy just plugged in one of the sets he bought, it was like a 12" late 40s series string GE. He actually got a raster and a fuzzy wavy picture came in. Rather than unplug it and say "great, got something to work with!!", he left it plugged in and running for like 20 minutes trying to fool with the knobs to get the picture in better.

I felt so bad for that set.....

[Electronic M]

Originally Posted by Kamakiri

I absolutely couldn't believe that one guy just plugged in one of the sets he bought, it was like a 12" late 40s series string GE. He actually got a raster and a fuzzy wavy picture came in. Rather than unplug it and say "great, got something to work with!!", he left it plugged in and running for like 20 minutes trying to fool with the knobs to get the picture in better.

I felt so bad for that set.....

And here I had a Variac with me and was actually WALKING around with it for a while.....If someone had asked I'd have let them use it.

[Username1]

I would have done the same thing...... And all those people selling stuff that say " I was
told not to plug it in so I didn't" They lie ! As long as it looks ok, not wet looking damp
smelling, mouse house looking, rusty chassis.... plug it in and see what happens....

.

[Kamakiri]

Originally Posted by Username1

I would have done the same thing...... And all those people selling stuff that say " I was
told not to plug it in so I didn't" They lie ! As long as it looks ok, not wet looking damp
smelling, mouse house looking, rusty chassis.... plug it in and see what happens....

.

In a 1940s set with wax caps, it's one thing to variac it slowly and run it for a few minutes....but once you get something, don't try to dial it in for 20 minutes!!!!

[roundscreen]

Here are some pictures of set's I picked up at the ETF meet.
Ctc 7. It was a trade for a 21axp with Nick. He did a lot of work to this set and it is working good. CTC 11. This set I bought from Dave. It is in like new condition and all it needed was a alignment of the crt.
Ge porta color Set that was flat lined. A cleaning of the lin control fixed that. A really nice Sharp portable with stand. Have not worked on this set yet. Chassis is really compact and will have to spend some time on it to get at the horz board. This was the first time I saw the ETF and it was vintage tv over load. Just Awesome. Also, This was the first time I got to meet other Tv collectors and they where really cool people. For sure I will go to the tv convention next year.