Bel-Aire TV / Clock / AM Radio
 

It looked interesting so I picked it up. Anyone know anything about it ?
It has Rubycon, Nobel and River parts inside.
The only mention I've found on the web so far is this site which says it's from 1970: http://membres.multimania.fr/siroistv/tv-autres-eng.htm

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Neat score ! But that Bad Boi looks a LOT older than 1970....

dont know anything about it, but it sure looks nice. Looking forward to an inside pic.

Yeah, that's what I was thinking. It definitely has some tubes - maybe entirely tube based. I'll take a closer look later tonight.

I would love to see the inside of that. What a cool set

There was a similar set at an ARCI donation auction last year. I was real disapointed that I got there too late to bid on it.

I took some photos from the back and pulled one of the tubes. It's a Hitachi 6BE6.

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Looks like a fried resistor on the left.
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The gray dog bone resistor next to the antenna in the third picture looks cooked.:eek:

That is one of the oddest things I've seen in a while! I guess this is from one of the smaller outfits in Japan; looks too cheap to be all-Hitachi. A great find!

It sure is :(

Thanks! I got the set from a friend who was transporting a bunch of sets this afternoon. He pulled right up in front of my place with a truck load. Mostly it was newer stuff so I passed on everything but this guy.

I did some more web searching and actually found list same set in an ebay auction from November 20, 2010. I suspect that's where he got it from.

http://vintagetelevision.org/rare-wo...tv-radio-clock

I also discovered it listed on the ETF 2010 equipment donations page. I wonder if this is the same set :scratch2:
http://www.earlytelevision.org/eqpt_donations.html



No luck whatsoever finding service info :(

Sure looks like it was working back then.
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I've come across similarly-constructed radios, and even an electric piano made in Japan during this period. It seems those cabinets are all very much hand assembled. I typically find quite a bit of writing in them, indicating cabinet measurements, I guess. Build quality is always very crude, like this one.

Like your tv, a lot of the stuff I find seems kind of one off, at least on English language web pages, I don't find much info. It may be possible stuff like this was purchased by a serviceman stationed in Japan and brought home.

Well, WHATEVER it is, & HOWEVER OLD it is, I still like it...GREAT Score !

Change all those green caps!!!

If it was purchased in Japan rather then made there to sell here it would have Japanese control lables.

Nice set! Probably not many of those left.