A new arrival..
 

Just picked this off of CL and need some info on it. It has a brightener on it, looks like a metal tube as well. Has sound and pic, Needs a cap job :)

All input welcome. Cant find a tube chart, need info on CRT, looks to be 17"..

Thanks:

SR

That cabinet looks like it's in excellent condition :thmbsp: I think it's a Motorola 17T5D (or E) which used a 17CP4 metal CRT

http://new.tvhistory.tv/search/viewp...171/era/2.html

Close, but no cigar!
Those Motorola's used a 17TP4, Electrostatic focus CRT.
Several years ago, I picked up a small console Motorola with a bad 17TP4.
I installed a 17CP4 and made up mounting brackets for a PM focalizer, out of pipe strapping. The set wasn't worth much, anyway.
I hated metal cone CRT's, as they were hard to sub with a glass tube. :sigh:

I've got one storage just like built in 51'
The Bakelite cabinet is mint like yours no cracks
Nor scratches

that's the night of the living dead type tv , had two , still have one that is wasting away and its console companion , the type I have are the ones that use 17BP4 so not metal crts , they do have nice pictures when restored.

mike

I was going off the service info in Riders vol 9. They show a 17CP4.

Good-looking set. The TV certainly has some interesting knobs on it.:thmbsp:

CRT looks to be a 17TP4 Chassis has TS-326-A and a 3M52 stamped on the CRT and chassis.

Any papers or links??

SR

I should know better, but I'm going by memory. The chassis you're referring to might be the little better model with the full power transformer and the 5U4.
The model I was referring was either the series set, with the voltage doubler or the heater transformer parallel set. :yes:
I'll look at Riders #9.

I see it's chassis TS-326A which makes yours a model 17T7 that's covered in Rider #10. It is indeed a series set with 17TP4 CRT :)

I just knew, You'd see eye to eye with me! :D
How many hobbyists could that involved with trivia. :scratch2:

Having a hard copy of the Riders TV model index and the full scanned set on DVD helps ;)

I just inherited a whole set of Riders. I would really like the DVD scans. The books are rather cumbersome, but are easy to read. A lot of times, the scans lack a bit of clarity. :sigh:

I looked up the Motorola in the Riders vol 9. It's a series string, voltage doubler design.
There is a focus coil and a real novel way of exciting it. It's connected across the voltage doubling cap, before the selenium rectifiers. I never saw it done that way. :scratch2:

So there is AC going to the focus coil?