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Originally Posted by zenithfan1
I've been wondering that also. I think you're right, we'll be trading them amongst ourselves. Better that than nothing at all! Thank you to all that collect and restore these wonderful pieces of history!
Mark
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I too think this will be the case. Tube TV sets were very common 8 or 10 years ago. They have been getting harder to find year by year. I collect tube radios and even ones from the '30's are more common than most early '70's tube TV sets. Radios were usually small enough to be put in the closet, attic, or barn and forgotten about for 50 years. TV's could not be hidden away as easily; therefore, most of them got discarded when they died or became "too old". The exception might be a nice console TV that the owners kept because of the cabinet. Even a lot of those wound up getting stripped and only the cabinet remains. I've even been asked to strip the insides out of console TV's in exchange for the chassis. There's a lady in town right now that has a Motorola console that I have been "putting off" gutting for her for about 15 years! I need to find an empty cabinet and see if she'll trade. Most of the tube sets that I used to find were from the elderly and they were usually consoles or big table models that may have been too heavy for them to lift; therefore, I got called to come haul it away. Usually when someone passes away, the kids / grandkids just come in and toss everything related to vintage electronics because they see it as junk and can't imagine anyone wanting it.