View Full Version : Please, someone save this rare tv!


Bill Cahill
07-10-2012, 10:59 AM
This is a rare Stromberg Carlson 24" metal tube combination radio-tv-phonograph.
It's on ebay.
Cabinet looks gorgeous. Dealer said dut to picture tube being weak, reccommends making it into a fixh tank. :thumbsdn:

Please save this rare beauty!
http://www.ebay.com/itm/1950s-STROMBERG-CARLSON-Model-24RP-Vintage-Tube-Television-Record-player-Radio-/370629584503?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item564b3ea677
Bill Cahill

mstaton
07-10-2012, 11:42 AM
That's a beautiful cabinet!. if I was closer......

Einar72
07-10-2012, 01:16 PM
Yeah, a LOT closer...

DavGoodlin
07-10-2012, 02:21 PM
That's the Pittsburgh-Johnstown area.
Some VKers in the area?.

Eric H
07-10-2012, 11:16 PM
That's a very nice set though I imagine it will be next to impossible to find a good 24" round metal, it's probably nearly as rare as a 30BP4!

Regardless I'd rather have it sitting in my house non functional than "repurposed" into anything.

Bill Cahill
07-10-2012, 11:32 PM
Believe me that if I could get it I would. Please, somebody rescue it.
I think you can eventually find a working tube.
I wonder how the tech knew the vertical circuit wasn't working....
I think that set's worth saving.....
Bill Cahill

...........Fish tank, INDEED!!!!!........................

earlyfilm
07-12-2012, 08:44 PM
. . . a rare Stromberg Carlson 24" metal tube . . . .

I spotted the eBay listing before I read this thread, and had assumed that the set was a 21 incher and the seller was measuring the trim instead of the CRT, as I was unaware of any round 24" tubes other than, I think, DuMont being made for TV use.

Who made the CRT?

John Folsom
07-12-2012, 09:01 PM
This tube shows up in the GE and Tung-Sol tube manuals, maybe others.

David Roper
07-12-2012, 09:44 PM
...and there was one (tube) at the ETF auction in May. Timing is everything.

Eric H
07-12-2012, 10:03 PM
I saw a 24" B&W Roundie at a local collectors house some years ago, I think it was a Muntz?

Bill Cahill
07-13-2012, 12:58 AM
Manny years ago I had a 24" round Stromberg Carlson. They do exist, and, I'm convinced this is one of that size. I think it should be saved. Not made into a fish tank.
Bill Cahill

cwmoser
07-13-2012, 06:35 AM
...and there was one (tube) at the ETF auction in May. Timing is everything.

I saw that tube at the ETF.
It was huge.
Thought about bidding on it simply as a novelty.

Carl

miniman82
07-13-2012, 10:54 AM
RACS had a few up in the attic as well, but there's no interest in having them made since the sets are so rare to turn up. I doubt many were ever sold.