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As jstout said in his above post, I picked up this set last night, brought it home, and after wiggling the horizontal output tube so that the filament would light up, it's came on, hooked it up to a converter and it produces a fairly decent B&W picture. Needs a good cleaning up, and the brightness control is frozen, so have to deal with that. I like the way a separate indicator lights up depending what channel your on. I don't think it has many, if any wax style capacitors, but there is quite a bit of wax that has dripped from the flyback. Doubt if I can do anything about that, except clean it up. Rubber "tires" are in decent shape, making it easy to move. There is a code date and Packard Bell symbol on the socket of the CRT with a date in 1963, so it must be the original CRT. Jstout and I drove out on Nebraska's country roads to pick it up, as it was outside of Omaha. Had some good conversation about our old TV collections. Also I got the owner of the set down to $50, so I feel I got a bargain. It's really a unique TV especially in the Midwest area as most Packard Bells were sold on the west coast.
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