I picked this up wendsday for $20.00 bucks and found it was in very good condition it even kinda worked poorly I recapped it and all systems are go:banana: It's a 1954 Kaye Halbert I had never herd of one but I found online they were around from 1950 to 1956 Kinda Kool.

Now THAT is SUPER cool!!!

That is a beautiful set!
Charles, are you seeing this?!

Is that your cat watching "The Lone Ranger?"

LJB:smoke:

Woah !! Good job ! K-H was primarily a West Coast mfger- I don't think I've ever seen one in this neck of the woods...

Wow. Beautiful set. $20 bucks, huh. I am never that lucky. :tears:

I have never seen one in person, that is one cool set. Congrats!!
Dan

WOW! Where (what city) did that turn up? I think it's the first one I've seen, owned by a collector other than myself here on AK.

Nice set, CLEAN re-cap, and that's a fairly rare cabinet. It's the last year for Kaye-Halbert, and should have had the wired remote socket on the back of the chassis, but I see a cover plug in it's place. That one was probably made at the up-sized Eastham Drive factory in Culver City, but you could check on the tube layout. It should say whether it was the Hayden Ave or Eastham factory. Watch out for those letters on the flip-down door... They fall off!

Charles

Yes any shows that has animals of any kind he will sit and watch he loves animal planet he will watch it and lick himself during the comershals. Sometimes he will look behind the tv to see if they are there He's a funny Guy his name is Zeke

I found it in Portland, OR and the tag on the back says it was built in Culver City, Califonia

Zeke looks like a clone of our 16-year old cat Tido (not my choice of dumb names -- he was adopted). Wish we could interest him in television. He's stone deaf and spends much of the day shrieking at us to let him in or out of the house every few minutes.

P.S. Very cool TV.

Phil

Very cool! :thmbsp:

Very nice. I did notice that there is no cover on the bottom of the barrel type tuner? Is this original? I have been restoring Hoffman Easy Vision TVs and notice that some of these have covers, some do not. Also notice that the high voltage rectifier tube is underneath the chassis. I have some Hoffman table models also designed like this.

Nice! Kaye-Halberts are scarce sets.

It has a tuner cover I took it off to clean the contacts

How bad were the contacts? I have gotten the Hoffman sets from all around the central US(I am in Texas). The ones from Houston(very warm a humid most of the time) require quite a bit of cleaning. I would suspect Portland could be similar in humidity, but much cooler. (I have been to Portland for a work conference and vacation, so am somewhat familiar with the area).

Also notice that the high voltage rectifier tube is underneath the chassis. I have some Hoffman table models also designed like this.

I have also run into some early '50's Motorolas like this.

Very nice find there...love the rounded cabinet. Looks like a good performer as well.

You got it on a Wednesday and had it recapped by Friday??? Wow, that's fast! You must a) have a fair-sized shop-stash of capacitors ready to go, b) have a library of schematics, and c) work very methodically and succinctly. Nice job!

(and cool cat!)

--Bob