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Old 11-12-2015, 08:26 PM
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Your Wife was Right. Happy wife, Happy life! That set was a POS. I can't imagine why you would have even considered saving it. Sheesh!
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Old 11-12-2015, 08:56 PM
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This thread is awesome! Story is great, wife is awesome, set is cool, wife's text is hilarious and the fact that she is named Peggy is the icing on the cake!
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Old 11-14-2015, 02:47 PM
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Probably already been smashed into the ground with the other garbage... and covered over... RIP
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Old 11-14-2015, 05:00 PM
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Probably already been smashed into the ground with the other garbage... and covered over... RIP
CLEARLY you wrote that without reading this thread.....
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Old 11-14-2015, 10:36 PM
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Hopefully you can make it shine and work well. And if you're lucky, she'll let you set it up in some "public" portion of the house (like a guest bedroom or dare I say it the living room..).
Sometime she'll have friends over: "Oh, I picked that old TV set up for my husband. He enjoys restoring and having antique TV sets. I think the soap operas are on now, lets watch one in black and white, like in the olden days..."
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Old 11-16-2015, 09:22 AM
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CLEARLY you wrote that without reading this thread.....
Wow apparently you were right, when I left that comment for whatever reason there was no page 2 after checking now there's a complete page 2
without page 2, it appeared that no one had saved the set I'm glad he did save it and it should make a nice daily watcher
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Old 05-04-2017, 06:41 PM
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Hi! I've got one exactly like that I'm watching right now! Yours has the optional UHF tuner in it. They
really do play nice once she's restored. [at least mine does]. Also, easy to work on..if that tube is
good in there, that's half the battle. have fun!!
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Old 05-05-2017, 09:00 PM
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I'm chuckling to myself after reading that. Your wife is a keeper!!!



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UPDATE: Well the dump guy never called me back, so that was that. Or was it?

Unbeknownst to me, my wife got out early from work today, and headed down there herself... hahaha this is the text message she sent me this afternoon:

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One man's junk is another man's treasure especially with a good crt!
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Old 05-11-2017, 07:30 AM
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Like the story not all of us have money to burn like Bob G if that set makes you happy good for you and that was very kind what your wife did thats great.
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Old 05-11-2017, 08:42 AM
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Not every one who has money lets that turn their nose up at common, less than super desirable, or beat up sets. It takes someone that sees the future to save interesting mid 50's-80's sets for those that soon will badly want them, and those that already appreciate them enough to buy and work on them.

I've saved some large lots of hard luck sets that others would not bother to look twice at, and made money doing it.

For some it is all about love of electronic history, repair, and preservation, not so much about having 1 of 5 soon to be 10 known to exist (because the high price draws unknown sets out of the woodwork). Though it is cool to have one of few or 1 of 1 type sets.
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Old 05-11-2017, 10:25 AM
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At least most of youse guys, your family/wife/whatever wasn't downright out & out HOSTILE towards yr treasures.. My paternal granny, if YOU did not save AT LEAST a dollar & a quarter outta every dollar you made you were going straightaway to Hell on the express train... She & my papaw had saved & scrimped all their lives, he lived til he was 95 or so, She made it to 102. She would NOT pay her monthly bills by mail-She made me drive all over town & dropped the monthly check in their hands. Basically, NONE of us benefitted from her penuriousness- The gov't took something like 70% of everything they had..
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