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06-16-2012, 01:48 AM
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Something like that to pop up sitting on a curb here in South Florida would be the day hell freezes over.. And if that were to happen it defiantly would not survive the copper hunters..
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06-18-2012, 02:42 AM
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06-18-2012, 11:27 PM
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Very few (if any) TVs of any kind show up on the curbs here in my small town 30+ miles east of Cleveland. I've been here 12 years; the last time I saw old TVs out for the trash here was about five years ago, and those were two 25" table sets. I have yet to see any flat screens on the curbs here, and may never see one since most of the big-box electronics stores such as Best Buy offer free recycling of old sets with the purchase of a new one. I don't know for certain, but I think they will accept any type of television -- flat screen or CRT -- and any old worn-out appliances for recycling as well.
It may not be long before recycling of all old electronics and appliances is done routinely everywhere, and with all such equipment. I think the days of simply putting out an old TV for the trash are just about over in most areas, as "recycle" is the watchword these days -- no one likes even the thought of sending an old television to a landfill, and environmentalists are horrified by what such sets are doing to the environment. Even old refrigerators are being recycled by either hhgregg or Best Buy; I have seen a commercial on television showing a refrigerator in a recycling bin, but I don't know offhand which store runs it.
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06-19-2012, 12:40 PM
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I seen a color roundie for the first time on Craigslist here in South Florida, which is the one I got that posted on here a few weeks ago.. It will probably be the last color roundie that will ever be posted on Craigslist in this area..
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06-19-2012, 01:21 PM
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It's the same here in the Boise, Id area. I picked up only 1 Admiral Roundie and never seen one since. As far as scrappers go, they now drive by your house slowly checking out your stuff. I had one come up to my door and ask about a bumper I had on the side of the house. I just told him it wasn't scrap and they went away quietly.
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Interestingly, the other TV, the CTC 16, also came from Wauwatosa - just a mile east of where this one was rescued! And I just picked up a 3rd 21" from a mile north of the 86th St Estate Sale location where the CTC 20 was abandoned. This was quite the area of middle-class aspirations in the mid-sixties where a budget color set was affordable.
The 3rd set is a Silvertone that also seems to have an RCA - or clone - chassis!
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You gave me the CTC20 for parts for the CTC16 but most, including the flyback were incompatible. And the CTC20 seemed too good to trash it for parts, so I gave it as payment for a massive repair to the CTC16. When it was stored disassembled two of the coils on the chroma board snapped off. Need to source both of them.
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