Last year for vacuum tube type radios and TV's?

[peverett]

CRT TVs are not completely indistructable. I read a story about some people who were fighting and throwing a TV at each other. The CRT did implode at one point. Some of the glass hit one of the fighters in the neck, just at the right place, killing them. That is the only case that I have heard of where an impolding CRT hurt someone.

[Sandy G]

Somehow or another, I can only feel just a little bit sorry for them....You have to be pretty well "Eat Up w/the Dumbass" to try a stunt like that...

[peverett]

That is true!

[Electronic M]

If it wasn't a lovers spat, how much ya wanna bet that the glass didn't really endup there by coincidence?

[Jeffhs]

Originally Posted by peverett

CRT TVs are not completely indistructable.

I didn't mean to imply that the CRT sets were 100 percent indestructable -- I said "practically", and also noted that these sets probably will suffer CRT damage (including but not limited to implosion), not to mention PC board damage if the set has one or more such boards, if they are manhandled or dropped. My point was that the older CRT sets would not be destroyed if someone threw something at the screen (most older consoles and portables had a pane of safety glass in front of the actual CRT to prevent damage to the tube) or if a portable CRT TV fell or was pushed off its stand, whereas with today's FPs there are usually no second chances -- the second a FP set hits the floor, the screen shatters.

[peverett]

As you say, the CRT sets were pretty indistructible. However, some of the later ones were not very stable with the large heavy CRT(with lead in the glass) and the small light PC boards. I have heard of people being injured when these fell off their stands. The older, 1940s to mid 1980s TVs did not have this problem.

[radiotvnut]

The problem I see with many '90's and later sets is the plastic cabinet becomming brittle and falling apart. I've seen a lot of Sharp TV's with this problem.

[TerrySmith]

I have several Zenith 12" b&w sets with the 12CB12X and ZX chassis, all are Hybrids. Tubes are 38HE7, 17JZ8, 6LN8, 12FX5. Some have a 1X2 HV rectifier and some have a diode stick. The transistors even have their own sockets! Date codes range from 1972 - 1974. All are still in working condition and have a great picture!

One of them is the "Sidekick" with the denim case covering, one is Tennessee Volunteer orange, one is salmon and white and the last is brown and tan.

[radiotvnut]

I have a 1970 all tube Zenith 12" B&W that still works fine.

[jr_tech]

Originally Posted by TerrySmith

I have several Zenith 12" b&w sets with the 12CB12X and ZX chassis, all are Hybrids. Tubes are 38HE7, 17JZ8, 6LN8, 12FX5. Some have a 1X2 HV rectifier and some have a diode stick. The transistors even have their own sockets! Date codes range from 1972 - 1974. All are still in working condition and have a great picture!

One of them is the "Sidekick" with the denim case covering, one is Tennessee Volunteer orange, one is salmon and white and the last is brown and tan.

Are they sitting on a 100+ year old Singer treadle sewing machine?

jr

[Jeffhs]

I guess you learn something new every day. I did not realize the Zenith "Sidekick" portable was a hybrid -- all these years I thought it was 100 percent solid state. By the late '70s, Zenith must have abandoned hybrids in favor of all-SS 12" portables; in 1978 I had a Zenith J121Y solid-state set, no tubes. That set lasted me 22 years and still had a like-new picture when I finally retired it in 2000.

[radiotvnut]

There was a "Sidekick II" that was a solid state set from the mid '70's. I think '75 was the last year for Zenith tube sets.

[Keefla]

Originally Posted by radiotvnut

There was a "Sidekick II" that was a solid state set from the mid '70's. I think '75 was the last year for Zenith tube sets.

I got a zenith like the 3 pictured above-jan 75 datecode, its hybrid, probably last year then.

[ctc17]

I was looking through sams and saw a Catalina color console from 76 with tubes. Hybird with trippler

Whats the deal with Catalina anyway? Is that a Wells Gardner department store brand or something?

[Chad Hauris]

Catalina was a house brand of White Stores which I know had locations in Texas. Here is an ad for the chain with some Catalina products.

http://www.newspaperarchive.com/Site...?img=107366041