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I have a 1951 17" Motorola which unfortunately was a victim of a flood, then was left uncleaned for several years. You can imagine the condition of the chassis! Everything is coated with green mold. The bakelite case is still in good condition. I'm considering taking out the guts of a 19" Dell CRT monitor and mounting it all in this case. The menu buttons would go behind the drop down cover for the vertical, horizontal, focus controls etc. and the volume now would still be a volume knob and the channel changer would be a binary counter control, 128 steps. Something will have to be fabricated to hold the picture tube, but the original mask could still be used..There's plenty of room to mount everything including a tuner, and an amplifier connected to the existing speaker. I'm not a TV aquarium abuser by any means, but seeing colour HD on the screen of what looks like a classic (and common) Motorola tabletop would be cool...
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