Potential new project!! Silvertone Roundie

[maxhifi]

Tomorrow night going to go take a look at this TV.... Seller is a retired TV tech and says it comes with a spare chassis and yoke! Also says the tube tests good. If all is well, it's going to follow me home. He says it hasn't been powered on in 15 years.

Anyone had a chance to work on one of these before?

[Sandy G]

Kewl ! Looks like a Good 'Un ! Good luck & keep us posted !

[kvflyer]

Don't be offended but if you don't grab that TV, you may be foolish. Certainly looks like a nice deal depending on what you have to pay...

[maxhifi]

i do intend to buy... Unless the place is full of cockroaches or something similar Will follow up with lots of pics, probably followed by lots of questions.

[kvflyer]

Originally Posted by maxhifi

i do intend to buy...

Originally Posted by maxhifi

Unless the place is full of cockroaches or something similar Will follow up with lots of pics, probably followed by lots of questions.

Cool! Please keep us posted...

[Chad Hauris]

This should be real similar to an RCA CTC-15. I found one of these at an auto junkyard in a pile of junk which had a bad flyback. I substituted in a flyback from a Hoffman rectangular set and it did work but with slightly reduced width. I ended up using the set for parts for other round sets as it had a good CRT and the cabinet was severely damaged.

Burned wiring and terminal strips from the heat of power resistors and bad diodes, bad degaussing thermistor, bad power switch, bad electrolytic capacitors seem to be the usual problems

[ctc17]

Get it....why not. If the tube is good and you have an extra chassis and the tube is good there is little risk. That set will produce a color picture you just cant get out of that Zenith.

[maxhifi]

My main worry right now is that the "seller who used to be a TV tech" will have other stuff which I also want to bring home!

If it can produce a better picture than the Zenith, that will be great. No doubt the sound will be better too, with a cabinet that size. I looked at the CTC15 schematic, and it looks like it has a ton of adjustments my Zenith doesn't have. I hope it isn't going to be full of paper capacitors, if so it's going to be a lot of work!

[ctc17]

Will need some caps but not to bad. Really no paper. The flyback is the weak point but keep it cool and you have a backup so you should be ok.
If the guy has even more stuff, Great! Stock up. Its better you than the dumpster.
IMO the round tubes have brighter more vibrant colors.

[oldtvman]

A lot of their sets were made by Wells Gardner and they are very close design to the Rca chassis.

[dieseljeep]

Originally Posted by oldtvman

A lot of their sets were made by Wells Gardner and they are very close design to the Rca chassis.

W/G never built anything for Sears. Their sets were built by Warwick and most were RCA clones.

[leonk]

W/G!? they actually made chassis for TV's!?! They're HUGE in the arcade monitor world!

[miniman82]

Those were vector, not raster scan though.

[sampson159]

wells gardner also made sets for jc penny.the sears warwick sets were ok.they had a nice silvertone crt.i think it was an rca myself.that roundie is a very nice one to grab.i would take it quickly!

[Electronic M]

I have an older Silvertone roundy and like it's colorimetry the best out of all my tvs.