"It works when turn it on, I can hear the motor..."

Does it burn oil?
Any tappet noise?
How's the muffler?

http://cgi.ebay.com/1950s-HOTPOINT-SALMON-PINK-TELEVISION-PORTABLE-RETRO-/260797514210?pt=Vintage_Electronics_R2&hash=item3cb8be41e2

damn, same picture on every channel....

Aw, c'mon, you guys, you remember them ol' tellavishuns what had them motors in 'em back in the Fifties, doncha ? Yeah, they ran the annacannafrannistan wobulator on 'em that way...

Probably has giant fins and gets 8 MPG.

:scratch2:Sooo....They still used scaning disc mechanical sets in the 50's....Must have been a LOW LOW budget model!:lmao:

Tom C.

:scratch2:Sooo....They still used scaning disc mechanical sets in the 50's....Must have been a LOW LOW budget model!:lmao:

Tom C.
Yeah, they still had all babbitt bearings and squirt oilers for the rods.

:tongue:

Yeah, they still had all babbitt bearings and squirt oilers for the rods.

:tongue:

Yep, & God help ya if ya tried to pick up one o' them UHF channels....(grin)

Well, you know how cheap Gen.Electric was, he could really cook up some stuff. I worked on one of these Hotpoints and like Uncle Sandy said, that UHF, whoa, boy! It uses a gear reduction drive off the motor, to get that Ultra High speed going. The one I had, the grease had congealed and it just couldn't build up enough RPM. So, you'd tune in channel 14 and get channel 63. Once I tuned it up to channel 83 like that and some little guy in tights came on the screen-his antenna looked just like the antenna on the Hotpoint, so I knew I was onto something!