sylvania color set (23v rectangle)
 

buddy of mine was cleaning out an old estate. had a nearly mint sylvania 23v rectangle set (not a clone). He did not have space for it so gave to me. I checked it out and it had a nearly dead R and B CRT the G was fine. Anyway I fired it up and was able to get a good raster on green, and if I turned the G all the way down and the R and B all the way up I could see it was demodulating the color signals.

I put it aside figured I would part it out at some point just to make space, since I did not want to use one of my good CRT's on it as I was saving them for a zenith I have.

Yesterday I say a CL add for an old TV it looked like a Maggie rectangle with the tambor doors.

5$ later I have it in my truck (not going to test anything for 5$). Got it home and pulled the chassis and CRT. The cab was a mess faux finish plastic chic, and messed up at that, plus the particle board was coming apart. the chassis is not a clone. I may someday feel the need to put it on a jig and try it out.

Now the good part, while it does have a bit of a green halo, it test excellent on the CR-70 like new really, so I guess I will now have to swap it in for that beat CRT on the sylvania and get it going. I will post up some pics and make a video of it later.

here is the CL pic

Oh man, and you're in Orlando too.

Um, any chance I can get to see this TV live? :P

the maggie is history, but I will get the sylvania going with the maggie CRT.

That's what I was referring too, the Sylvania.

sure you can stop by and see it when done.

Awesome, thanks! I love the console TV's, especially that era.

here is a brief video showing the checkout of the donor CRT and the set its going into.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9cGcDqKghU

That CRT did not require any of the "wake up" time or high heater voltage. Frankly I was shocked by how well it tested, I have some NOS rebuilds and it test every bit as well as they do.

The CRT will fit alright, right?

yes the sylvania has a 25XP22 as well.

Ahh ok, perfect.

i need that maggie crt!i have the identical set that suffered in transit.

Ron, I was really not expecting it to do so well. Figured it being a 25XP and not a later replacement, I was expecting it to be pretty weak. The Maggie chassis is super nasty with oozing yuck on the wires. that and the normal dust has made it really gross. The maggie cabinet was a really goof up, but the sylvania is near mint. Got some photos taken of the slyvania by the owner with moon walks broadcast over the air, cool stuff.

It does not look half bad in that pic, and I've seen one of those cabinets in mint shape in person, granted the set I saw had been gutted and used as a cabinet for the set that replaced it.

here is a pic of the donor chassis, will be posting up a better pic of the sylvania soon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTnhMI3smjk