JohnS, All,
SteveD was right in mentioning that this thread which started out by Charlie posting about vintage automobile climate controls, and just seemed to develop a life of its own about other 'stuff' not purely TV related is off-topic. Since I'd hate to quench what I see is a great light-hearted exchange going on here I would suggest that anyone like John who has just posted serious vintage TV stuff, in this case about reproduction vintage TV parts, should consider starting a thread on that subject and move their appropriate comments now in this thread, over to the new one. Likewise i guess those nice 30A13 Admiral pictures should go over to "Show us your vintage B&W sets". However.....
I'd like to leave this thread going and let it take its course. I could make it 'sticky' and change the name to "hey!" or "wuzup?" or something, then we'd all know it was for shooting the breeze, and could 'keep it on topic'. Waddayathink?
Part of my rationale is that anyone who thinks filling their house full of non-working 50+ year old consoles is a cool thing to do has to have a different view of the world right?
Such views might be more eccentric than you'd find in a general off-topic discussion forum and should therefore get their own forum.
Respectfully submitted,
Rob (I was born eccentric) TV