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Originally Posted by ctc17
I would be embarrassed to show that work to the public.
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So would I, not that I would even think of doing such a thing. There is a right way and a wrong way to do these things, of course, and this is definitely the wrong way. One would think that if they were going to do something like this (!), they would have at least put a matching frame around the opening in the front of the cabinet to make it look halfway decent, as was noted by RitchieMars.
It looks to me as if this was a slap-dash hack job. I wouldn't dream of having this thing in my apartment, even though it looks half decent with the doors over the CRT closed. The view of the TV itself, however, with the doors open, is terrible; as wa2ise noted, the opening wasn't even cut out properly, and the TV itself is one of those black plastic cubes that ordinarily don't last longer than the warranty period or two years, whichever comes first.
People outside our hobby do not realize the value of these vintage and antique TVs, which is why so many of them wind up being gutted and the cabinets used for other purposes -- or the entire set winds up on a curb, to face a certain death in a landfill, even though the set may still have some life in it or may need only minor repairs. One of the best examples I ever saw in my life of a TV being kept in active use even after its owners got tired of it or upgraded was a 1951 RCA Victor 12" round-screen b&w set (chassis KCS-47, IIRC, in a mahogany console cabinet with doors) originally owned by members of my church. The family donated the set to the church when they replaced it with a new set. The TV was put into service in one of the youth rooms until the church was remodeled in the '80s.
I don't know what happened to the TV after that, but it's good to know the church got some use out of it long after it had been removed from active service. I'd much rather see a vintage TV used this way than to see it unceremoniously put out on a curb just because it was replaced by a color set or, nowadays, a flat panel, or the set gutted. Too many of these vintage sets are still usable, some requiring only minor repairs, and as RitchieMars said, they don't make them like that anymore (what I always say about vintage Zenith radio and TV sets, although this can apply to any really good make of entertainment equipment as well).