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Originally Posted by Kevin's Rack
I came across this in my garage yesterday, it's been sitting in there for a while. Been a few years since I played with it. Any info on it is more than appreciated. Is it vintage, or is it crap? The picture seems pretty sweet though... Also, what year might it be from?(circa.)
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I was going to guess that it looks like one of the many variations of the ever-popular GE "12SF" tube-hybrid chassis, but the number of tubes (plus what looks like an upside-down mounted HV rect.) makes me think otherwise, so I'll let someone else guess. The cabinet does look a lot like the later-style "12SF" sets, though, as well as GE's solid-state B&W portables that were also sold in the mid-1970s.
As for when it was made, I'd say it's early-mid-70's, but no later than ~1975 given that it appears to have a continuous UHF tuner. Another clue may be provided by the date-codes on the tubes (which appear to be original ones from the set); at least one of the tubes in the photos has a visible code, but the image isn't quite sharp enough to read the numbers. (the codes used on GE tubes from that era are in the form YY-WW, where YY is the last two digits of the year the tube was made, and WW is the week in that year) This would provide a "low point" for the date the set could have been made.
In any case, it's not exactly a vintage or sought-after set, but wait fifty years and who knows...
