Raytheon 10DX24 reduced to a good price!
 

It pains me greatly to have to pass on this at that price but C&F want's $500 to ship it cross country so....
Someone within driving distance of Boston might want to grab this.


http://cgi.ebay.com/1948-BELMONT-RAY...item4aa0ad0143


http://i.ebayimg.com/01/!BrB6MVQ!2k~...UwlRlw~~_3.JPG

Nice set, but where in the heck would someone find a knob for it?
Is there one out there that can be copied?

The knob should be the same as this 7" Belmont/Raytheon.
Hard to find, probably but not impossible.

http://www.vintagetvsets.com/images/.../raytheon7.jpg

I needed that channel knob for a Raytheon 7 inch suitcase style television and spotted one in a 100 knob ebay sale last year. I sent the seller a clear jpeg of the knob for verification. Since he had zero bids he modified his ebay description and sent me the knob for $10. Eric's set actually came with two different channel knobs. The Kit version had a different channel knob then the retail version. So I originally thought of moving the knob from from Raytheon tabletop to my Raytheon suitcase since the other channel knob is more generic. I need to remember where I put that channel knob as you can see it is not on the TV yet.

I have been looking for that 10 inch Raytheon for years. Unfortunatel it is too far away. I have driven to Plymouth Mass to pick up a TV but cann't do that right now.

Looks like someone bought it, wonder who it was? :scratch2:

By the way, does anyone have a knob for it. :D

These sets apparently also had two styles of the small knobs, the round ones like my set has and also the X style knobs that matched the Channel Selector.

I'm thinking it might be useful to learn to cast small plastic parts, like knobs.

You can buy a starter kit at Hobby Lobby.

Some day we will be able to "print" small plastic parts like knobs. Google "3D printing" - this is fascinating.

Carl

I've seen videos of this, very interesting!
They can even print assembled models & ball bearings with moving parts.

There's a video with Jay Leno where they print a working (though useless) plastic crescent wrench!

A channel knob would probably be childs play for a machine like that.

I thought about them but I think it takes time to find someone who can do it and I was afraid it would get away.

I found a place called "The Packaging Store" who would do it for almost $200 less than C&F, Picked up, packed, put on a pallet and shipped freight to my door.

Hopefully they are as good as C&F, the guy I talked to seemed professional and knowledgeable about shipping fragile items so I'll keep my fingers crossed.

Did you try to quote me or did you modify my post on purpose? I've hit the edit button at the wrong time before......twice:D
Anyway, I was lucky and had a shipper lined up by 10 am the same day, I posted at 7 am when I agreed to buy the set. It was meant to be I guess.

Oops, sorry!

yes I thought I was Quoting you but I guess I hit the Edit button by mistake, no wonder it didn't look right!

I'd fix it if I knew how. :stupid:

Casting isn't hard. I tried it for a front panel on an Emerson figural radio: http://antiqueradio.org/EmersonSnowWhite247.htm . Some knobs might be trickier, but it's still basically something you can do on top of your clothes dryer.

Phil

Fascinating write up Phil.

It's cool, I have one more coming to me anyways lol! I did it to 2 people in the rect. tube forum, luckily I was able to fix them because I copied their post first and was able to paste it back. It still said that I edited it but it was otherwise normal. Good times.......:D