Met Jordan yesterday and picked up a set!
 

I won an auction in March for a 10" GE set (below pic#!) in San Diego with the idea that the seller would hold it for me till I got down there this month, turned out he needed it gone by the end of April so I called on Jordan for help.

He was a life saver, picking up the set and holding it for me till yesterday when I picked it up at his place. Thanks again Jordan!!

Meanwhile, Wednsday night I was browsing eBay and found another neat set in San Diego with a BIN option, having the impulse control of a four year old child I did just that and picked up this Airline 7" "entertainment center" (pics #2 &3) I'm really excited about this unusual little set, it's in great original condition and has an RCA 45 player built in, it's roughly the size of two Motorola VT-71's stacked on top of each other.

7 inch Airline
 

I have the same set,its one of my favorites. I had the front glass reproduced, because it was flaking. The guy I sent it to did a fantastic job.

You're welcome Eric. It was nice to finally put a name with a face. Hope to see both running in the future :thmbsp:

Both very nice looking sets.
Dan

The CRT in the Airline is toast, very weak! luckily I just picked up a good 7JP4 a few weeks ago.


tvdude, can you tell me who did your glass?
mine is flaking too, the lettering is pretty good but the gold background is really bad.
I was hoping i could brush off the gold without damaging the numbers and repaint it

7 inch Airline
 

A gentleman from Franklin Massachusettes. Let me know if you decide to fix it and I will dig up his number for you.

7 inch Airline
 

Sorry He is from Medway Mass.

What model number is that Airline combo set?

It's a 94GSE-3018 the TV chassis is a Sentinel similar or identical to the TV-400.

Dude, you are so spoiled. I crave that Airline!

I have not seen a tabletop "entertainment center" before. Most old combos are so monstrous that I have sworn off of them forever (or at least until this place burns to the ground). I think I could have made space for that one, though.

Have fun.

Phil Nelson

Are 7JP4's not rebuildable?
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Matt Davala

That Airline is very cool - I've never seen a mini-combo before.

Phil - you've already got what is quite possibly the nicest combo ever made - anything else would just be a step down from that massive Scott. :D

-Ian

Got the 45 changer working
 

I wanted to do something with this set but am not really ready to dive into the TV so I took the changer out and rebuilt it.

It's in remarkably clean condition after removing all the dirt.
I had a rebuilt idler on hand and got a william bosco cartridge for it off eBay, still need to do something for a turntable mat.

It sounded great using an amp from another 45 player. :thmbsp:

For all intents & purposes; no. Two issues: Those are Pyrex, which is harder to glass-weld than is the soft glass of most all other larger tubes. Also, they don't make the gun. Therefore, the old gun has to be sent out and re-cathoded.

Charles

Cleaning the chassis
 

The chassis on this set were nasty, all yellow from cadmium oxide and with an acrid mildew smell, sooo, I smeared Naval Jelly all over them, taking care not to remove markings, then I washed them off, first in a parts washer then rinsing with plain water and letting them dry in the sun.

Two of them have been cleaned, one hasn't, can you tell which one? :scratch2: