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Originally Posted by drh4683
Went to 6 estate sales today and found a nice 1968 Ford Philco roundie. Picked it up at 5018 W. 32nd st. Cicero, IL. Only cost me $10. I had my camera with me today and took pictures of the home the TV was in all these years. It was a typical chicago bungalow.
Model Q5528WA and 17MT80 chassis. The set was well cared for and was still in the living room, plugged in and hooked up to the central antenna! The TV still worked too! CRT is bright like new, and no cataracts at all on a 21FJ! Needs some touch up to get it just right though. Also has the EM84 magic eye tuning indicator tube! Never seen that before on a TV! The dial lights up nice, has channel window VHF, slide rule dial UHF. After pulling the back of, its got all original tubes, and the tubes say "Philco Cool Chassis". I guess thats supposed to mean its not a hot chassis as it has a power transformer.
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Cool Philco, Doug! --As for the chassis, though, it's a "Cool Chasiss" too, but not for that reason. Philco "Cool Chassis" tubes were called that because of an 'improved' structural design that was supposed to make them radiate less heat than other brands of tubes, thus theoretically prolonging the life of the tube and other parts in the set. I dunno if there was any truth to Philco's claim, or if it was just so much advertising fluff.
Anyway, great find! That's got to be one of the most attractive 60's Philco color consoles I've seen.
BTW, does that set really have an eye tube, or does it just look like one on the outside of the set? I've got a Philco stereo receiver from the late 1960's which has a tuning indicator that looks (from the outside) for all the world like an edge-viewing (long rectangular shaped) eye tube, but it's really a box with a conventional meter movement, a lightbulb, and some simple optics that projects opposing rectangular "shadows" on the background. Seems like a lot of trouble to make something that looks like an electron ray tube, but isn't!