TRK-12 on ebay...only $2,500!
 

Ebay has a new listing for a Buy-it-Now TRK-12, in non-complete condition.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...m=160200613177


Nice for someone that doesn't have a pre-war..but has a few thousand bucks to get one!


PS--I saw it was missing a grille bar...and I just happened to have one, so if you buy the TRK, and need the bar...please check out:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...m=230216064236

The bar would be the least of my worries...it's missing the entire TV chassis. Not good for much of anything other than scavenging it for parts, IMO.

There was a disaster with the shipping of one of the original prototype TRK-12s, with the lucite cabinet, when it was bought by a TV collector; it was dropped and the lucite cabinet got broken up. I don't know what ever happened to the set, so if no new lucite cabinet was built, there may be a complete chassis floating around out there someplace. That happened in the 80s, and I can't remember who it happened to.

Charles

The story goes that the lucite set was overseas (Israel?) and was shipped back to the U.S. at a time when there was labor unrest at the NY ports. It was insured for a large amount, which was incentive for a dock worker to put the prongs of a fork lift through the shipping box several times, destroying much of the lucite. The set eventually was rebuilt and is now at MZTV in Toronto.

I don't know either, but glad it wasn't me....sickening.

the Plexi TRK-12
 

If you'd like to see the Plexiglas TRK working, just take a quick trip up to the MZTV Museum in Toronto.

On my trip up in 2005, the set was in a special area, where you could almost touch the set. A beauty--you'd be surprised how nice a 1939 TV looks, when you can see the electrons bouncing about inside! ;)

When I got the #4 trk-12 chassis with the HV doubler Steve and I talked about making a new Plexiglas or Lexan case. We still may do that, but when this case came up and was close by I had to get it. I also got Harry's slat for it.
-Barry