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Originally Posted by bgadow
A couple weeks ago I had a table set up at the local hobby fair-I had my 630ts there playing among other things. Anyway, one nice lady came by and offered me an old TV she had, and before I left her son in law delivered it. Zenith porthole? Philco Miss America? Early Trinitron? No, her antique was a Boshei 12" bw. Well, it was free...I'll try to give it away to somebody.
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I can't give away any 70s or 80s vintage tvs or vcrs either. The market died for vcrs over 5 years ago and I quit trying too sell used tvs over a year ago at the flea market. Thus my massive cleanout this Sunday due to finding out a former flea market friend is an inside man at the dump in Parsonsburg. He said bring all you want on Sunday for free.Just about can't give away 90s tvs but I may be able to get a few $$ from them so I won't dump them until I find out if they're easy or hard to fix. The easy ones I'll sell for something. the hard ones go to the dump too. Not worth the frustration.
It's funny but in my job of repairing tvs I'm asked a lot how long a set should last. I tell them a lot depends on the build quality and the quality is not what it used to be. They're always amazed when I tell them my daily watcher is from the 80s and over 20 years old.Sometimes I tell older people about my uncle and his Zenith daily watcher from 1968-2000 and they go wow, I remember those tvs with a stereo and record player built in.They say how did you find tubes for it that long?...lol.
The sad thing is I'm plugging in out of curiosity these sets before I load them up and even after being in an open front shed with dirt and rain blowing on them for years a lot of these sets work or try to work. Some have the original problem they had when put there and no new ones other than dirty controls and some high voltage corona. I had some a long time and never got around to them because newer sets were selling with the occasional older tv sold for $10 to $25 for a color tv. More like $10 the last year and then couldn't move one for $5 towards the end.No non remote tv will even bring $1 at auction.Even some remote but 80s looking tvs won't either.(woodgrain,led channel display,speaker and buttons on side, deep particle board cabinets vs all plastic on later tvs)Let a mid 90s 27" w/ remote go for $40 so I wouldn't have to haul it back after trying to sell it for a month.That's how bad it got.
Good luck on that b/w Brian. I put them on freecycle before and no one wants them. I think the salvation army will take them but more than likely it will end up in the dumpster instead of put out for sale.