New Roundie sets scored

[mstaton]

Damen from Portland contacted me about an estate sale in Seattle and wanted to know if I would like to go. This was Tuesday night and the the sale was on Thursday. He sent me the link and what I saw was the best estate sale ever!! Roundies, Roundies, roundies!!! All kinds of equipment, CRT's, radios etc. I of course said OK. I left from Caldwell, I and made the 400 mile trip to Portland. We left Portland at 4:30 Am the next morning and drove 190 miles. We arrived about an hour after the sale started. We immediately went into the garage where the CRT's were located and purchased all 5 21" round CRT's for $20( all tested good except for 1 which will be looked at since the filaments wont light). After we were granted entrance into the house we headed toward the tV'S. They were scattered all over and stacked up. We bought all the roundie color sets except 1 RCA combo. We had no room for it and felt bad for leaving there. For $120, we got a 1956 or 1957 RCA color set with a good crt and CTC-5B chassis, 1 zenith color set with good crt, 1 maggie combo with a crt that went to air, 1 admiral 23" tabletop remote set with good crt and remote, 1 rca parts set with a good 23" CRT and chassis, 1 RCA swivel color tv with good crt, 1 21" colcor rca tabletop color tv and 1 RCA 21" color console with good crt. Some pictures will be posted but wont be able to post more until I get home tomorrow. Damen and I will keep you up to date on any progress we make with the sets. it was a long trip but well wotrh the effort.

[mstaton]

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[mstaton]

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[ctc17]

Wow congrats! Sounds like a fun trip and great score with fair prices. You really got to be willing to travel to get good stuff and this looks like the score of 2011.can't wait to see more shots

[Sandy G]

Ah HATE Yew !!-Yosemite Sam, Esq..(grin)....EXCELLENT Scores !

[DaveWM]

Nice score, it pays to be willing to drive. I dig the maggie, looks like it may have a tube stereo (no astrosonic badging).

[Phil Nelson]

Great haul! I'm next door to Seattle, but can't buy much these days (no room). There are a couple of pieces of test equipment I might have been interested in, though.

Phil Nelson

[zenithfan1]

What chassis is in the Zenith? It looks like a '63. Great scores!!

[miniman82]

Nominated for cateract of the century:



lol

[damen]

Originally Posted by zenithfan1

What chassis is in the Zenith? It looks like a '63. Great scores!!

It is a 29jc20 and the picture tube is a Zenith tube and checks a little over 80 on all three guns. Its a neat
set and Its a 62 from what I have read online I am hopeing it will be a good performer.

[ctc17]

Originally Posted by miniman82

Nominated for cateract of the century:



lol

A few hours baking face up in the hot sun with some wedges putting pressure should pop that right off safely.
It will improve the look of that set 500% when that is fixed.

[JCFitz]

Originally Posted by ctc17

Wow congrats! Sounds like a fun trip and great score with fair prices. You really got to be willing to travel to get good stuff and this looks like the score of 2011.can't wait to see more shots

Ok.I get the wiling to travel to get good stuff but how does one get to an estate sale in the middle of the week when there's this thing called a job and a boss? I can't even attend saturday estate sales,auctions,garage sales etc since I work 6 days a week to make a living.

I've even had to overpay for most of my record collection because of that fact. I had to pay the flea market dealers on sunday for the same records they were picking up at saturday sales for probably a fraction of what I was paying them. I hate to think of the good stuff I've missed while at work. I've been told I've missed a few. I personally knew a guy that picked up a Beatles Butcher cover lp at a yard sale for $10 in a box of records and sold it for $5,000 on ebay.Think of the roundies you could get for $5,000.

[reeferman]

A past thread talked about a CTC-5 faceplate that had the word "color" etched in the glass. Is that true for this set?

[miniman82]

I can clearly see 'COLOR' in the glass of this one.

[zenithfan1]

Originally Posted by damen

It is a 29jc20 and the picture tube is a Zenith tube and checks a little over 80 on all three guns. Its a neat
set and Its a 62 from what I have read online I am hopeing it will be a good performer.

WOW! That was my first thought and then I was like, nah, those NEVER show up. Those are great sets but I hear that they are a bit hard on the flyback, watch your cathode current and you should be fine, assuming ths fly's good.
Awesome 5 score too! I'm happy for you!