Sylvania Saratoga Restoration

[Kevin Kuehn]

The set is looking wonderful.

[miniman82]

Couldn't resist tweaking convergence again, I think I got the sides closer than they were. It's never gonna be perfect, so when it looks good I generally leave them alone. Next I have a few brass pieces to polish, and the front bezel to reinstall. Next pictures after these will be the completed set.

[zenithfan1]

Looks great Nick.

[Aussie Bloke]

Now that's one mighty fine sharp picture!!! Looks so good that I'd almost think someone has stuck a modern 90s perfectly tuned CRT set in side the Sylvania cabinet!!! I am guessing some of you are probably gonna take that comment as an insult lol. Anyhow I am totally amazed with the sharpness and clarity of that (I assume) cable TV channel guide, it looks so good!!!

[Sandy G]

Wow...just "Wow"...

[hi_volt]

Me Likey!!!!

One of these days I'll have the time to start restoring some of my sets.....

[Steve D.]

Nick,

The Sylvania looks fantastic. You should invite the neighbors over the next time there's a color show on. Opps! Just time warped back about 55 years.

-Steve D.

[ggregg]

Nick, Did you finish this one up? The thread was falling down to the bottom of page 2.

[snelson903]

great looking color nick i hope mine turns out that sharp,on that zenith . maybe ill look at that silvertone if i get in a parts bind.

[miniman82]

Actually, I had to remove the convergence parts to experiment with the prototype. So I'll have to do the convergence all over again, but I haven't messed with it in the meantime. I'm waiting to get some questions answered on the proto set before I get back to this one, but it shouldn't be long.

[Tom S]

Now that set looks SWEET!!!!!!

[sampson159]

one of the best looking roundies ever!fine restoration and the picture looks as good as it did the day it was built

[mstaton]

Every time someone here restores a roundie(including me), I'm always amazed at how good the color is. That is an awesome set! Very unusual and hard to find no doubt. Probably wont see another one anytime soon! Good work Nick!

[edison64]

Nice job. Is'nt it amazing that you have to restore a roundy to see what actual color TV looked like... doesn't compare to today's so called hi Def. Apparently there was some truth in "living color" can't wait to see a YouTube when its finished ..

[Tomcomm]

Nick, I have a couple of friendly suggestions now that you have your 21CT55, CT100 and now Sylvania pretty well restored. All cabinet screen shots look great in your web site and VK Forum photos but the active screens are way too small and exposed to excessive room light. This makes it impossible for the full TV cabinet shots to display fine screen detail with VK’s posting pixel limitation. In the case of your latest Sylvania cabinet shot, the 657 X 623 posted resolution produced a 246 width by 198 height screen shot! Any sense of objective fine detail picture quality is therefore impossible to determine. Maybe you could post additional dedicated screen-shots in total darkness and pull-in your camera field so it captures only the full screen with a resolution of at least 1024 by 768 pixel. Also, it would be swell if all quality conscious VK members acquired the “Digital Video Essentials” SD DVD ($9.75 from Amazon ) if they don’t already have it. Members could then compare posted roundy picture quality with other postings using exactly the same original JPG pics at the same camera resolution. Just a thought….Tom