The remains of a Setchell Carlson dealership in my hands
 

Thanks to drdave3 and a good friend who (I don't think) wants to be named that was coming this way, I now have what's left of the Setchell Carlson department of Burr's TV & Radio in Sulphur LA :)

Still going through the piles of literature and schematics. Among this stuff is a 1956 model with a 27RP4 picture tube! :eek:

The test jig is a Setchell Carlson Color TV Service Center model 135SC80X with a 21FJP22 tube. Never seen sets so designed to be serviced. The chassis are plug and play units. You could do a recap on these by just "lifting the hood" and removing the modules by undoing two Phillips head screws and pulling them out.

More pics! :D

Wow, congratulations, Tim, nice haul! Nice sets, and the color test rig is very interesting, closed up it resembles a color "porthole" tv :-) I like the way the test rig has storage for it's adapters, etc. I have never seen those Setchell Carlson sets with the flip top, and chassis underneath, nice for servicing!

Haha, I just remembered way back when H. Ross Perot was campaigning, and he said something like, "We're gonna raise the hood, and go to work on that engine!" Please understand, I'm not trying to change the direction of this excellent thread at all, it was just an observation (memory), thinking about how the top flips up, like a car hood!

Slightly OOT, anyone in the Milwaukee or Chicago area remember the DeForest-Sanabria TV, with the original "Works-in-drawer" chassis. They came out in the early 60's. It's in Sams, under model DKW.
Unlike Motorola, the drawer came out completely. It used a Jones plug arrangement, that connected the antenna, picture tube socket, yoke, dag grounds and power cord. The HV anode was a separate insulated connector.
The newspaper ads, boasted that no home service is necessary. Just, pull out the drawer and take it to your dealer. :D

The Quasar drawers come out too! They use molex connectors. They supposedly had the same idea that service men could put in a loaner drawer and take the other to the shop, but I never heard of any that did that.

Those Setchell-Carlsons sure are nice to work on. Mostly aluminum too, so they'll last for a long time.

But where are you going to put all that stuff? :D

Man, talk about falling backwards into a HUGE Tub of Butter...You LUCKY Dawg, you ! (grin)

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At present count (including the test jig as a set) I'm at 23 sets. I have such a feng shue going right now too. I'll be looking at feng shue in the rearview mirror really soon me thinks.....

This is what it looks like now though :)

A 27" ? That is a nice find! I have the 21" version, from 1955. Mine doesnt have the radio or record player options though. Also have a 1968 S-C school tv, but its branded Wollensak instead of S-C.

ultimate man cave!!!

If the jug has any life left, I want the twenty seven inch.

Alright. Well, I have worked on de forest sanabria sets, and, once had a termite infested setchel carlson. It was easy to take the individual chassis's out, but, I wan't having any luck trying to fix issues, and, cabinet was filled with termites, so, I gave up.

They're not real common, but, not a big ticket set, either. The big selling point was set acted up, you called the company, they sent a tech out with a replacement chassis to supposedly fix your problem They really weren't a high grade set. Mine was a 21" with A M radio, and, a four speed VM record changer in a drawer that also containned the speaker. Not good in the fidelity department.

It is interesting to see those tube-type chassis modules. Setchell-Carlson (and its later name Audiotronics) made commercial video monitors that also had plug-in modules through the late 1980s or early 1990s, but they were much smaller and solid-state. Those monitors often just ran and ran and ran, 24 hours per day for sometimes 20 years (if there was any life in the CRT still).

Their 23-inch B&W monitor in that same period had a sort of "works in a drawer" too, but it was everything except the power supply and flyback/HV on one board that slides out the front. I still have some of them in service here.