This would be the 17MT80 chassis, not a clone at all.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/1960s-Philco-TV-Ad-Life-Magazine-Ad-/281105441542?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item417330a306

I have that exact set, it makes a very nice pic.

The tuner and IF in those were first-class!

There was one in the HS VoTech shop that looked a bit newer and had a swivel base.
I tinkered with it till I couldn't make it look any better then it was given away to a poor someone in need of a color set.

Does yours have the tuning eye 6HU6?

If by first class you mean silicon...

That stupid Philco 17MT80 I had had P-E-R-F-E-C-T convergence, no fringes anywhere and I didn't even pay anything for it. Got it on a curb alert out of Minnesota, shipped to Chicago for $100 via uship. Had an arcing trace on the PCB, under the red out tube. Cleaned out the carbon, worked like a champ. I think Polar ended up with it.

no eye tube a real low end set. Mine too has perfect convergence. only odd think is an intermittant slight tint change, IIRC it was a blue on mine, the it like the screen drive would tick up a tiny bit, back and forth, I looked for solder joints, all good, did not see any carbon traces, I could wiggle a tube and get it to act up, but it was a LOT of wiggle, so it may have been some thing shifting from the movement. I was going to try a new tube socket just to be sure. I tried new diff amp tubes thinking maybe some kind of short, no joy there either.

I never got around to checking but I should have checked the cathode/G1/G2 voltage on the blue to at least isolate which was acting up see if I could catch it.

I'm very much trying to get rid of stuff right now, but I would sure make room for a non-clone Philco color set. The tuning indicator was one of the coolest gimmicks of that era.

I should ask my dad if he remembers that set. He was working for an electronics store in Memphis in the mid-60's that sold Philco. As a matter of fact, I own the Philco turntable (Philco Q-1562) he and my mother bought from there in 1967. Need to drag it out and work on it.......

The 17MT80 A B & C chassis are 1967 model year chassis. They are pretty much identical to the 1966
16QT85 25" chassis. The B & C chassis have the tuning eye. They employed the 21FJ or 21FB depending on model.

-Steve D.

our first color set was a philco ford set.i posted earlier about it.very good picture and it lasted about 7-8 years before the crt started going south.it was replaced by a d16 slide control sylvania.both bought at sun tv here in columbus.philco had a great tuner in those sets.i remember the tuning bars in the little window.

Here's a MAD look at color TV, a great back-cover ad spoof from from 1967:

http://www.madcoversite.com/mad110.html

That was good. I had to save it down to my hard drive.

Interesting. I have a Philco 16M91 chassis roundie from, IIRC, 1966. I wonder what the differences are between the two? Mine is buried right now; so, I can't get a look inside at the moment.

Good one! Watch that show up as an avatar...

Interesting. I have a Philco 16M91 chassis roundie from, IIRC, 1966. I wonder what the differences are between the two? Mine is buried right now; so, I can't get a look inside at the moment.

That chassis and the one from 1965, the 15M91 are CTC15 clones IIRC. Not sure if Philco made the CRT.