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Rob,
Yes, that's the NIB Stromberg. Your right, the porthole style is pretty slick to showoff. So far I haven't found another, just a couple more projection sets. Chuck |
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RCA 721TS
Dear Rob,
I suspect that the presence of Channel 1 on the dial may be part of the reason my set is going for over $1,000. My GE 800C only went for $249 although it's nearly impossible to find those locomotive-style Bakelite cabinets in good condition. Virtually every one of them that I've seen except that one has at least had one crack somewhere. Many that I've seen had most or all of the top grille smashed out. I really think that Channel 1 is the attraction. John |
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Wholly geez!
Makes me wish I'd have held on to more of my collection! But then again, most of the good stuff went to Rob, so at least it's all loved
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"Restoring a tube TV is like going to war. A color one is like a land war in Asia." |
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1940's 10" sets
Many of the 10" sets made prior to 1949 are likely to have Channel 1. I just count the positions in the photos that are posted on eBay and I'm almost always right about which ones do have Channel 1 vs which ones don't. I just bought an RCA 630TS for $150 that has Channel 1. Buy-It-Now wasn't originally an option, but I convinced the seller to sell it to me for $150 with Buy-It-Now since the set was listed in Collector's Guide to Vintage Television as having an average unrestored value of $175, was missing a knob and needed a small piece of veneer fixed on the front. It's going to cost me quite a bit to have the set professionally disassembled and packed since the seller didn't want to attempt it himself. I'll also have some money involved in the veneer repair. I bought a complete set of knobs for the 630TS on eBay recently so I have the replacement knob on hand. I even have a spare 10BP4 (had two, but used one of them) and saved a dud to have rebuilt if necessary. What I don't have but hope to find are replacements for a missing HV cage, back cover and 2 knobs for my Fada TV30 (also a Channel 1 set). The cage and back shouldn't be hard to find as they're pretty much identical for the 630TS and all its clones. The knobs, however, are going to be harder to find because, although any 630-clone knobs will fit the shafts, the Fada knobs are cosmetically different.
John |
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Round is good. Round is cool. Check out this partially restored '48 Zenith 12".
Pardon the bad exposure, the flash washes out the picture. I found it in a small town antique mall trying to work but looking funny. I talked them down to $150, hauled it home, parked it on the bench, and proceeded to hand wind a power choke. 2000 turns of #32 wire. I thought I was going to choke! A couple of caps, two good 5U4's and a few other tubes and this is what I got. Still needs recapping but I hafta make a living sometime..... Marlin |
Audiokarma |
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Hey folks: Anybody else watchin' the GE mirror in lid set on ebay? It ends tomorrow evening and already is at $7500.00+! Auction #2115928008. Sure wish I was rich!
Here is a photo I lifted from the ebay auction. Marlin Moderator's Note: That auction has closed and the set sold for $12,300.01. See http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tem=2115928008 Last edited by Rob; 07-06-2002 at 12:09 PM. |
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I saw it the moment it was posted and have been following it with interest. Nowadays, generally only well funded museums or wealthy collectors can afford to obtain historically significant gems like this. Thirty years ago you could still trip over this sort of thing at a yard or estate sale and have it for a working man's pay. Not any more.
Rob |
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Many of these gems were actually DELIBERATELY DESTROYED years ago because they were considered DANGEROUS. For those who don't know the background, pulse and rf supplies for high voltage were not developed until after the war. These pre-war sets used a second power transformer and usually a 2X2 rectifier with much larger filer capacitors to develop the 7.5kV second-anode voltage. These supplies were not energy-limited like the more modern flyback-pulse or rf oscillator supplies. These old supplies could easily continue producing high voltage at sufficient current to kill while loaded with body resistance. Body resistance normally presents such a heavy load on rf and flyback circuits to limit the output current to a level that will produce little more than a very unpleasant shock to a healthy adult. A picture tube only draws about 1mA of beam current from the hv supply. Pulse and rf supplies normally have high impedances which tend to limit their output current. I still wouldn't recommend touching the hv circuits of a flyback or rf supply with power on and also recommend discharging the filter capacitor(s) before working on them.
When restoring one of these pre-war gems, use extreme caution around the high-voltage supplies, never work near them with power applied and always discharge the filter before working on the hv circuitry. John |
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Here is my Stromberg Carlson. My next door neighbor gave this one to me about five years ago...
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My old BW sets
Here's my limited collection of old BW sets. See my post in color sets for explanation for lack of pics.
1. Stewart Warner 12" round. Made in 1949. I can get a picture, but I also got this set prior to learning that recapping is a good thing. Once recapped, this set will look really nice. The strips in the tuner are not all there, but I still can get it to work on cable. This one is a tabletop. 2. Zenith 21" made about 1958. Here's a good worker. Nothing special about this VHF only metal tabletop. A set similat to it is pictured in the AS THE WORLD TURNS book published in 1996. The child pictured would eventually become one of ATWT's executive producers. I'll eventually scan the photo and picture of the set. This one will eventually get a full recap, but it works after replacing some caps in the vertical and correcting other "repairs" done before I had the set. I am always looking for old sets, but I'm not sure when "primetime at curbside" here is. |
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Here is my Bakelite Admiral just after the restoration was finished playing a 1949 commercial for Joy dishwashing liquid when the set was barely 1 year old...
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And here is my TV project for next winter. It's my first porthole television set, a 1951 Zenith Blonde Console...
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hi Rob I see that you are from Ontario..i was passing through Napanee last week and notice the guy who runs the flea market there has 2 or 3 vintage TV sets for sale..i am into the audio side and picked up a nice reel to reel for a good price..just thought i mention it
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Good luck in your restoration effort. This system is worth fussing over!
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1961 philips
Hear is my antique t.v[IMG][IMG]
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