I've got the go-ahead from Keep Midland beautiful to collect all TV's which come in for recycling tomorrow...hope for some round CRT sets. Am in the station tonight to help re-tube the transmitter, will let all know how I make out tomorrow.

Chad,

That sounds like a wonderful opportunity! I hope you are not obligated to take ALL the TV's though. If so you will end up with a large trailer full of worthless black plastic junk with no salvage value.

Changing out the big tubes at a radio station sounds like a fun evening of learning something new. See if you can take home the old tubes. The really big finals have core value so don't expect to get those but the smaller ones make great ornaments and some, although used may have potential for a big tube amp project someday if you are so inclined.

Keep us posted on your haul tomorrow! Good luck!

We had such an event a few weeks ago; I had high hopes. No luck, just a roll-off trailer load of mostly computer monitors. Oldest things I saw were some junk stereos from the 70s. It occured to me that there was room in the back of that dumpster for something to be buried under that pile of computer junk-a nice console could fit there. I just couldn't bring myself to make those guys dig through it all, though!

Here's a report on what I got:

About 35 TV's. There are 2 Zenith tube type color sets, a Zenith Solid State Chromacolor II, A Wards Airline Japanese tube type color, a Conrac tube type 9" broadcast monitor, a perfectly working 27" Mitsubishi modern color set, several good Sony Trinitrons, a GE tube type b/w set, many other transistorized sets. Got some CTC-175's and CTC-187's (non-working).

Got 3 tube type amplifiers: Tech-master 5881 Amp with seperate control head and preamp, Heathkit 6V6 amp, Bogen Challenger 50 watt 6L6GC, plus an unusual RCA MX-7 stereo receiver w/nuvistor FM RF stage and 6973 output tubes.

Plus a completely working RCA VHS video camera outfit, about 15 VCRS (VHS and Beta), 5 or 6 Apple computers, a Pentium gateway computer, Bell and Howell Filmosound film projector, plus a collection of 10 mini transistor radios from the 50's and 60's including a Sinclair Gas Pump radio. Also some turntables and probably some other stuff too! Filled up the 1-ton Dodge Van twice completely.

Will have some pictures, when I get the film developed. Also I made the 6 O Clock news on Channel 7. They interviewed me about collecting TV's.