sear's silvertone tv
 

i got this from another vk member in the spring of this year ,its a heavy monster that desided make freinds with my fooooot. he had it stuck in the way of other projects ,so i took it off his hands first thing i did was put wheels on it. i checked out that extra plate cap that we were talking about ,its for a tube that looks like a 6dw4 but with a cap 6dL3 tube with a cap, and tube top ripped off clean. i repaired the loose socket and temp. jumpered the tube until find another 6dl3 buts its alive agian ,got to still go through all the color clean up yet ,but i have never seen a 6dl3 tube.

very cool lookin' tv!

its the only one i have every seen ,dont know much about who manufactured it, or much yet i was later going find a schematic on it, right now im just moving tv's left in the garage to the basement for winter project's. you know , squirrel them away for winter. i know one thing for sure that tv's out to get my foot.:D

Thats a great looking TV! :yes:

Here's one:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Tube...item1c271400bb

Or one with the correct branding for a little more:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1-NOS-TUBES-...item415f3e315b

Good luck, that's a nice TV.

Silvertone Color set
 

It is a great looking TV!!
What is the collective opinion? is this a Warwick or Wells-Gardner manufactured set?

I say Warwick.:yes:

Year? 1971-73 maybe?

I was thinkin SEARS with RCA gibblets... It was the 6BK4 rect that threw me, then again i dont see the 1V2 stickin out the side like a typical RCA has :D

Controll pannel looks like a Sears i worked on in Highschool... a LOOOOOOooooong time ago :D

SR

before i went to bed last night , for the heck of it i checked my parts supplier for tubes ebay, i like to buy large lots of tubes test and rebox them .iv been doing that since i was a kid collecting tubes , i noticed that it was a common tube it looks like ,i also noticed that russia sells alot of those tubes, did everyone see the case of tubes from ussr, does anyone know if thats a popular tube in there equitment made in russia. the more i see that tube maybe i do remember that number, ill look in disorganize stock of tubes before i order one . lol

hay boobtubeman while your there ,all iv been waiting for is my son was going to bring home from work a large amount of bubble rap for that tv .

That's one of the very last tube sets. What's the modEl

i found a repair order on it from 2/15/79 model # 528-43150038 it was sold or serviced in niles mich. not to far from me. its kinda funny i to go a 100 mile to bring it back were it started, im not sure were it was made tag says sears roebuck of chicago. so mybe its lived its life in a circle. lol

528 is Warwick's source number. I might've been built in the southern plant by then.
I don't think Wells-Gardner ever built anything for Sears! Sears had a bad reputation with their suppliers. :sigh:

it seems to be a pretty good put together chassie nice and neet looking ,and the looks well built . it sure needed wheels on it.

those sets were seldom seen here in columbus.there were a few and were very good performers.i especially like the silvertone crt.apparently rca but still produced a good looking picture.nice cabinet style too.it a keeper!

I had more trouble with these 528 sets in my time at Sears than all the others.

They were really good at pins breaking between tube sockets and PC boards, and generally developing bad solder connections anywhere the board was flexed.

It's always interesting to see one of these old sets that wasn't run to death 18+ hours a day and generally burned up by its owner.

Wonder how strong the CRT is?