Silvertone color console
 

This set has a raster; but, I have not fed a signal to it, yet. The chassis prefix is 529; so, is this a warwick, wells-gardner, or something else? I know 528 is warwick; but, have never seen a 529 prefix. Somehow, I have the feeling that these sets were not very good.

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looks like they put a hot running tube (audio output?) on a little ceramic standoff, probably so it wouldn't cook the board to death. Sounds like a quality set. I like the looks of it as well.

Late-1970's perhaps? Anyway, how easy is it to get the board out? (It seems kind of lodged in there behind the wires connecting to the CRT) I've been having issues removing mine on the 1972 Zenith to examine the caps.

Nope, I'd guess between '68-'70. For the exception of the GE 10" portacolor and maybe a few off the wall 9"/12" B&W's, there were no tube TV's made after '75-'76 and most major companies went all solid state by '74.

Thats a heck of a nice cabinet too!

looks like warwick.the crt is rca.i had a silvertone crt once that we saved for a special occasion.i dont think it was rca.looked to be maybe a foreign maker?it was outstanding.looked so sharp in a sylvania gt matic.the wells gardner chassis s were tan colored circuits.these are decent playing sets.i do like the wells gardner sets of that era.nice rauland crts and relatively reliable.that set has a nice style cabinet.i hope this one works and post pics in operation

I finally got around to feeding a signal to this set and I had audio with a raster and retrace lines. When I flipped the service switch to confirm a normal service line and then flipped the switch back to normal, the screen went dark (HV is still there). Also, several tubes are very loose in their sockets; so, some new sockets may be in order and the service switch likely needs cleaning. The CRT is a rebadged RCA Hi-lite, which tested a little weak. It did, however, come back very strong with a little help from the rejuvenator. It seems that most of those old delta gun tubes would take a hit and keep right on going again. Further troubleshooting will have to wait; but, I'll get to it one day.

I have one just like this but it has been in storage for a while.

It looks like the design of this is still based on the RCA CTC-17 but the locations of some of the boards/components are slightly different, like the audio detector board being in front of the power transformer, the IF board turned 90 degrees and the vertical/horiz oscillator board being tilted.

I agree, looks late 1960's. Makes me think of all the millions of sets like this that would have been running during the July '69 moon landing.

Sears dropped the Silvertone name from their products in 1972, so it's no newer than "72. It looks like a late 60's set to me. I have a color console from '66 and this set looks just slightly newer.

I remember seeing this chassis style used on the Sears roundies too.

Is that one of the infamous two-stage IF sets? Sears had one model year of rectangular (25A sets) that had only two IF stages. AGC was tied to only one of them - not a problem on an antenna, but when cable TV came around, lots of AGC and IF overload issues. We used to carry around a Winegard attenuator to show the customers that it WAS cable TV that was doing the overloading - something like +21 dBm of cable signal at one customers house. They could pick up cable on a portable across the room with the cable radiating that way. We put a total of 19dB of attenuation to get the customers Sears set to like the signal.

I don't recall ever seeing a flyback go bad in one of those sets - just vertical issues, and the usual dirty tuner, bad CRT or lightning damage.

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