Vintage TV Hoard

[Jon F]

If you decide to sell any of the 10BP4's I'd be interested in one for my 721TS

[StellarTV]

Originally Posted by cwmoser

Wow. This is the opportunity of a lifetime.
Clean it out - don't feel you have too much and let some
good stuff go to the dump.

Carl

I'm definitely not going to leave anything behind. It's worth the extra effort and mileage.

Originally Posted by kramden66

if you don't need the 16WP4 i might need one , also if there are any you think are too far gone put pics up before parting them or tossing , you never know someone might want to restore it.

No other plans for that CRT, I'll get in touch with you after I'm able to verify it's a good one.

Originally Posted by mstaton

Love the wagoneer! Most I see are usually rust buckets

Thanks. It took me a while to find one that was solid and original... and you're right, many of them are rustbuckets, even up into the 80s!

Originally Posted by azbigsam

I see a 7" Firestone set there. I'm very interested in it if you consider selling it.

It's for sale, open to an offer via PM. Some of these sets I'm keeping for my own collection but other sets and CRTs will have to go to recover the investment.

If you decide to sell any of the 10BP4's I'd be interested in one for my 721TS

Just posted an ad in the classifieds, have several 10BP4s for sale.

[kramden66]

i forgot to mention that if you happen to come up with any spare channel and fine tuning knobs for a 7 inch admiral let me know

mike

[StellarTV]

Originally Posted by kramden66

i forgot to mention that if you happen to come up with any spare channel and fine tuning knobs for a 7 inch admiral let me know

mike

I have a 7" Bakelite admiral with the chinese grille that is broken out around the chassis bolts near the back on the bottom. Not sure which way to go with this one since I don't have the missing pieces.

[bars&tone]

INCREDIBLE!!!! Congratulations!!!! Thanks for sharing the photos! I'm sure stories of this find will be retold for generations.

[Carmine]

It's a shame that a guy leaves all that stuff behind with no "plan". Just think what good he could have done by donating that stuff to the TV history museum. The money could easily have finished their CRT rebuild room.

[kramden66]

i have a checkerboard admiral but could use the fine tuning and channel knob , do you have a picture of this Chinese damaged set ? curious to what the damage looks like.
mike

[Boobtubeman]

> Some of these sets I'm keeping for my own collection but other sets and CRTs will have to go to recover the investment.


And i know where the RA-103 is at this moment

SR

[StellarTV]

Originally Posted by Boobtubeman

> Some of these sets I'm keeping for my own collection but other sets and CRTs will have to go to recover the investment.


And i know where the RA-103 is at this moment

SR

[Tom Albrecht]

While picking up a different set I bought from Justin's "hoard," this Andrea T-VK12 caught my eye. It's a set I've been interested in acquiring some day, so I picked up this one from him as well.

It came without a picture tube, and two knobs are missing (focus and radio tuning). It appeared to have no service work done on it previously, except for some updated tubes. Most tubes were dated April 1949, but there were a number from 1952. There was evidence of one or two blown electrolytics, and a dead 5U4 rectifier. With a full recap, a new 5U4 and a few other weak tubes replaced, a good squirt of DeOxit into the Inductuner, and some mechanical lubrication of both the radio and TV tuners, it came to life very nicely. Here I'm subbing a 12JP4 in place of the missing 12QP4 CRT.

No alignment touch up was necessary -- not even for the sound.



There's a bit of herringbone interference in the above picture from my nearby DTV converter box. I'll take a nicer picture sometime in the future and post it -- perhaps when the set is all done.

The cabinet is pretty decent, and will look very good after refinishing sometime in the near future.

I like the dial -- you push the tune control knob inward to momentarily light the dial when it is operating in TV mode. I guess they didn't want the dial competing with the picture in terms of lighted stuff on the front of the set. In radio mode, the dial lights up continuously.



Anyone have two spare knobs for this model? The function is printed on each knob individually, but I'd be happy with any matching knobs, even if they don't have the correct functions printed on them.

[StellarTV]

Nice work Tom! It'll be incredible with that NOS 12QP4 in it.

[Tubejunke]

Originally Posted by StellarTV

. Doors open, fortunately everybody ran over to the audio equipment!

Now, what to do with them? I don't know yet, but they didn't need to end up in the recycling truck.

I will never understand the very limited interest in vintage television. It's the one thing that really changed the way we live in a big way, but many "antique" or "collectible" people give them little to no attention. Maybe it's because so many no longer work and people don't want something that doesn't do what it was meant to do. I guess I could understand that, but still so many end up in the scrap heap and never have the chance to make it to someone like some of us who have the skills to make them work.

Really, if it hadn't been for StellarTV buying the bulk, the bulk would have ended up in the landfill I think. It's really a shame, but thank goodness this came out the way it did. Great find and thanks for helping out others who need parts or whatnot.

[Eric H]

I've deleted everything related to race and politics from this thread in the hope that it will get back on topic.

[TV-collector]

@ Andrea Television
I like the scale, is it the first combo showing a radio scale
and a TV channels scale on one plate?
In the 50s combos were common in some northern european countries.
(Denmark, Austria, Belgium, Germany)
They had TVs and the radios mounted on one chassis.
So its logical that the scales showing radio bands and TV channels.
Example:
http://www.google.de/imgres?imgurl=h...d=0CIgBEK0DMCA

TV-collector

[Fairlane500skyliner]

Boy, isn't that something! Talk about a once-in-a-lifetime experience. Has the estate been cleared of vintage sets and equipment yet?

Chris