Heathkit Roundie

[Phil Nelson]

Originally Posted by hi_volt

It's an Asian style TV cabinet, probably from a 50's B&W set

In the early 1950s there was a brief vogue for "Chinese" style TV cabinets. Stromberg-Carlson made a few, but their door designs tend to be more ornate than yours and I believe they always showed people in some fashion. Admiral also made a couple of Chinese cabinets, but I'm not very familiar with those designs. Perhaps other makers, too . . . .

Pretty cool cab, anyhow. I hope you can make everything fit. It would be a nice coup to re-re-purpose it back into a television housing as Nature intended.

Regards,

Phil Nelson
Phil's Old Radios
http://antiqueradio.org/index.html

[Steve D.]

Stromberg-Carlson did produce some very elegant Chinese style cabinets in the 1950's. From the 1954-55 model year catalog.

-Steve D.

[hi_volt]

Originally Posted by Electronic M

Did you measure the cabinet? It looks a bit narrow for the set, but then again the photos lack sufficient reference of scale for me to tell with accuracy.

the Heathkit escutcheon is just a shade under 28 inches wide. The inside of the cabinet measures just over 28 inches wide. I tight fit, but it will go in there once I move the inside shelf down about 10 inches. I'll need to add some trim to finish the front off above and below the escutcheon and then install a speaker baffle and grille cloth at the bottom, but I think it will go.

[edison64]

Just a little anecdote about Heathkit Roundy's about 15 years ago I had a guy stop saying he had a color Roundy that his dad built and he wanted to get it going again come to find out he thought his dad was the ultimate when it came to soldering but apparently he wasn't.... after removing the chassis I swear it looked like somebody had dipped the entire thing into a vat of lead and shook it off I don't even know how it was functioning lots of things shorted together and hooked were they weren't supposed to be... the connections for the high-voltage cage we're literally millimeters from shorting out to the chassis I still don't to this they understand how it didn't spark or short. After much repairs I finally got the set going again he was very happy but I wasn't it was certainly nothing that I would really want to watch could never get the focus extremely right and the color guns another story as others have stated I could never get them balance quite right either but still he was happy because it was his dad's.