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OK, guys, first time here, after reading a reference on the antiqueradios.com forum. Yeah, I knew coming here would mean trouble. Too much time on the computer now...but I want to play too so here is my list, if I can recall: (w=working)
(updated May 2007) Admiral 1)10" Bakelite console-w 2)10" wood console 3)12" wood console 4)15" metal cone bakelite -w 5)19" portable, late 60s-w 6)21" round color table model-w ___ Airline 7)9" color portable, early 70s-w ___ Andrea 8)early 50's console w/large round crt-w ___ CBS Columbia 9)15" table model ___ Delmonico 10)3" portable, 60s ___ DuMont 11)21" blonde console -w 12)23" color table model, 1969-w ___ Emerson 13)early 50s table set, 15" 14)early 50's table set, 21" -w 15)mid-50's "ac-dc" portable 16)suitcase portable, c.1960 -w ___ GE 17)early 60s 19" portable-w 18)late 60s 12" bw 19)Portacolor, c.1967-w 20)Portacolor, c.1974-w 21)18" table model, early 70s-w 22)19" table model, early 70s-w ___ Hotpoint 23)9" portable late fifties ___ JVC/Nivico 24)12" bw portable, 60s ___ Longines Symphonette 25)3" portable w/radio-w ___ Motorola 26) VT-71 -w 27)1959 21" table-w 28)1960 21" console 29)1969 21" rectangular color table-w ___ Olympic 30)early 60s 19" portable ___ Panasonic 31)early 70s 12" bw-w ___ Philco 32)'49 wood 12" table -w 33)'51 metal 15" table 34)'54 15" console -w 35)21" mid-fifties table set 36)late 50s portable 37)Seventeener portable (late 50s) 38)Predicta, cheaper model -w 39)early 60s 19" table model-w 40)mid-60's 12" portable (I use in my office) -w 41)early 70s 12" portable-w ___ Pilot 42)3" missing crt 43)3" w/green crt-w ___ RCA 44)630TS-w 45)641TS combo 46)721TS 47)1948 10" table model 48)1949 10" table model 49)unknown bakelite (2T???) 12"-w 50)9T245 console 51)21" console mid fifties 52)21" console, my first old one 53)19" suitcase portable-w 54)CTC-5 Whitby, mahoghany-w 55)CTC-11, metal cabinet -w 56)CTC-12 console-w 57)CTC-15 console-w 58)CTC-? 15" portable-w 59)CTC-? 18" portable -w 60)CTC-? 18" portable , older 61)CTC-? 18" portable 62)CTC-? 18" table model "Mural" 63)mid-70s alarm clock/tv/radio-w ___ Setchell-Carlson 64)19" table model, mid-sixties-w ___ Silvertone 65)21" Suburbanite table set ___ Sony 66)early 60's Micro TV-w 67)mid 60's like above w/uhf-w 68)mid 60s 9" ___ Sylvania 69)21" Halo-light console, 1953 70)21" Halo-light console, early 60s 71)23" color table model, c.1967 72)15" color portable, c.1970 ___ Tele-Tone 73)7" table model ___ Transvision 74)built from kit in 48, homemade console cabinet -w ___ Westinghouse 75)early 60s 19" portable-w ___ Zenith 76)Porthole table model 10" Mayflower-w 77)Porthole chassis only (later model) 78)21" SC400 console -w 79)21" Flashmatic console-w 80)late 50's portable -w 81)late 50s portable 82)25MC30 color, metal console, extremely clean inside-w 83)25MC33 color, nice console, paper inside shows new Zenith crt installed in early 70's-w 84)late 60s portable-w 85)c.1970 bw console 86)15" color portable-w 87)19" color portable-w 88)19" color portable 89)19" 4-tube color 90)13" color, eighties |
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Welcome!
bgadow,
Welcome to AK! I seem to recall seeing your monaker over at the other site. I haven't been there in a long time. There's plenty to keep my interest here. That is a nice collection you have. Is that homemade kit TV from 1948 nice? Can you post more info and pics of any of your collection? It is really easy to do with the software AK uses. |
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Gosh,,,i dont even have a TV,,,,after a storm knocked mine out, and cable raised its prices,,,I said: "see-ya"!!!,,,
now, I read, listen to music, or hangout here and other forums,,and listen to ice-hockey on internet radio,,
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WhiteSE,
Many of the TV's that members of this forum have don't work. You are in good company here! If your blowed-up TV is a vintage round screen tube color set, you can still brag about it here too! |
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LOL..i know,,but my TV is a mid 90's vintage Daewoo color TV...
I did purchase what can be considered a vintage ADCOM car amp,,,to replace my McIntosh..
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Rob,
I have been waiting for a tube-type digital camera! No, really, I'm a cheapskate, so no pics to share-yet. Hopefully in the next few months I'll remedy that. The Transvision is pretty neat, my wife's favorite, I think. The cabinet is sorta "Eames-like", makes heavy use of plywood, maple colored, I guess. Includes all the original plans. I feel guilty because I bought this several years ago at the Radioactivity auction for only $35. I hardly ever watch tv, but nearly anything is worth watching on a well-tuned tube color set. Sometimes I just sit there dumbstruck! This is a great site! |
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bgadow,
The Transvision is a great collectible! As for early tubed color TV's, I am constantly amazed at how well the clever engineers were able to make these work with so few tubes. If a tube equals a transistor, then the modern TV's would need hundreds of tubes to work! |
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Posted by Dave A
I thought Dave A's post discussing his collection in the "Show Us Your B&W TV's" needed presence here.
Rob, Vintage TV Moderator Quote:
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I had a huge collection of old TV sets (all trash-day finds, of course) in the basement of my former home back in the early 1970s; gee, I wish I would have taken a picture or two of it (them) so I could scan it into my computer and show them off now, thirty-odd years later. I had just about every American make of television down there except Magnavox. I'd list them here, but I can't remember them all anymore.
My old neighborhood, near Cleveland, was also Zenith land, maybe not so much as drh4683's hometown, but a lot of my neighbors in my former hometown had Zenith consoles, portables, roundies . . . you name it, in the 50s and 60s. (I picked up one Zenith Space Command "300" portable--without the remote--in the late '70s and used it in my bedroom as my main set; it lasted only about a year before the horizontal-output tube went gassy and overbiased the RF amp in the tuner, not to mention the IF strip and AGC, so badly as to practically wipe out the picture.) I'm not saying we had more Zeniths than Doug's hometown had, but there were a lot of them out by the curb on trash day, every week, as the old sets developed serious problems or defective CRTs and were replaced by newer, and in some cases bigger, color sets. I once picked up a 23-inch Zenith b&w console which someone had filched all but one tube out of; I retubed that set (it still had a very strong 23ANP4 CRT, which produced a beautiful picture) and it worked, for three whole years. I even patched an FM tuner into the audio system to make a cheap-and-dirty mono hi-fi system (that set had a wonderful and great-sounding audio channel, with a 6BN6 quad detector and 6BQ5 output stage, not to mention a 6x9 oval speaker in the cabinet directly below the CRT). Then my dad remarried and we moved, which meant getting rid of all but two of those nice old TVs I had in our basement including my pride and joy 23-inch Zenith, which I had so lovingly rebuilt from the ground up over the course of a year. There were so many old TVs being put out for the trash each week before we moved that I swear, my neighbors must have thought we were running a TV repair shop out of the basement! Good luck, guys, and very kind regards, as always.
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Oh my gosh! How does he do it?
I wonder just how big Big Dave's apartment is. It must be huge, if he can fit all those old TVs in there and still have room to move around. I also live in an apartment, but mine is very small (one bedroom, with the main part of the apartment being one large room). I couldn't begin to amass a TV collection anywhere near as big as BD's is. The best I can do here is to have my two old Zenith radios in my place, but when I got my new one I had to stick my first ebay find in a closet (my apartment only has one closet, in my bedroom). I am pretty much out of space now, so collecting old TVs is completely out of the question anymore (although I did have half the basement of my former home full of old sets, but that was over 30 years ago).
BD has a valid point about his neighbors possibly reporting him to the rental office or landlord, as most apartment managers take a dim view of their tenants using apartments for anything other than living space. I don't envy him his collection, however, because it will be a big job getting all those old sets out of there if and when he moves again. Believe me, I know. When I moved from my former home 31 years ago (years before moving to where I live now), I had to get rid of all but two of the old sets I had in the basement of that house. My neighbors must have thought I was running a TV shop out of my basement when they saw TVs on the tree lawn in front of the house, every week for about a month before I moved.
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Most of my sets are in my mother's basement, in another city. The sets I posted in the gallery (except two, I'll get to that later) are recent finds. I have a 2 bedroom apartment. The living room is large enough for my smaller sets (the Silvertone combo will stay in Warren until I can buy a house (fat chance of that). If I arrange things just right, I could have room for my entire collection, plus audio rack system (HH Scott tube amp).
Currently on the bench (table) is a 17" Sylvania 17P12 series. After bringing it up, the filters and voltage doubler were warm. I replaced the evil selenium diodes before I did anything else. I'll order caps this week. My after Thanksgiving set will be my RCA CTC-16. The cabinet isn't the greatest, but will still make a nice display when done and working. It has an original RCA CRT without cataracts and with good emission. My goal is to get at least three sets done before the company Christmas party. I hope to display them there. As far as sets I didn't post pics of go, I forgot to make a vidcap of the Sylvania. The cabinet is metal and the paint is in good shape. The name badge and tuner knob are gone, and the antenna assambly is broken beyond repair. I have a Philco 12" roundie which I bought at an antique flea market in Columbus. Some idiot broke the CRT. After the vendor figured out a TV with a broken CRT would not go for $45, they finally took 20 off the price and I gave it a new home. This will be started sometime next year. I need to find a 12LP4. As far as the worst case senario goes (someone accusing me of running a TV shop out of my apartment, they better have evidence and be ready to show me. If they don't, they get nice bad publicity (I'll go to the media and my attorney). There are other ways around it, and hopefully nothing will happen. |
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How did you do that?
wa2ise,
I just saw the TVs on your website. Very nice collection of older and vintage sets. However, I wonder--how on earth did you get the superimposed "NY" symbol (which is the logo of the New York Yankees) which you used to spell the name of the former mayor of New York City, Rudy Giuliani? I never saw anything like that before, and to be honest, I did a double take the first time I saw it. Very clever! BTW, I recognize the set you put that logo under. It's an RCA ColorTrak 2000, if I remember correctly. Haven't seen one of those in years (in advertisements, etc.), and I've never seen one up close. Were they very popular or just a limited edition (like the RCA G-2000, of which only 2,000 production models were made)? Speaking of ColorTrak, just what was the purpose of that system? Is it still being incorporated in the design of RCA tube TVs 19 inches and up? I have an XL-100 19-inch set, bought new in 1999, with automatic color, automatic contrast and color tracking, and black-stretch/black-lock circuits. Is the automatic contrast/color tracking system anything like ColorTrak? If not, what are the differences? Thanks and 73,
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Jeffhs,
The NY Yankees symbol is just that. I copied it off a baseball web page image file and pasted it into the picture with the RCA colortrack TV. That set was pretty common, RCA made many of them. It featured a comb filter. Also the chroma would track the contrast knob, and there was a room light photocell to sense ambient light and when you turned off the lights at night, the TV would lower the contrast and brightness automatically. This TV also has DC restoration. IIRC (I used to work at the RCA R&D lab in Princeton, these were all Colortrack features). I had to service this TV a few times, a few years ago a connector inside the tuner needed resoldering, and recently the flyback transformer lugs needed to be resoldered to the main circuit board. And I had to tweak a sound trap coil in the IF to get rid of sound/chroma subcarrier beat notes in the picture. |
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Zenith 1992 35 inch big screen console
I have a 1992 Zenith 35 inch Big Screen Console. It is in great working condition. Do you know how much I can sell it for?
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