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04-08-2005, 06:21 AM
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GE B&W set with built in clock/timer
This is a bit of an oddball......guess that's why I like it!
 Model number is PAM 119 AWD but the seller can't find a year...am guessing later 60's. Does anyone know? My understanding is that GE's weren't the bestest sets in general, or does that only really apply to their color models? TIA Anthony 
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04-08-2005, 07:41 AM
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The GE b/w sets were very simply built with just about 7 or 8 tubes it seems, like the portacolors, but the b/w sets performance seems better...the picture seems to be quite good to me. There were similar sets to this one but larger that also had radios built in. The handle on that set is very similar to a 1966 portacolor I have, so I am guessing it is from around that time.
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04-08-2005, 05:00 PM
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I have one of those! It is on my workbench, and I actually watch it a lot. It gets a pretty good picture for the "bare bones" chassis that it has, the only problem is that the UHF will roll vertically at random times (It is not the vertical hold, since it never does this in VHF) There must have been some variations of the set, since the one I have has a tiny clock over over a radio contol, the one on eBay has a huge (and much cooler looking) clock that takes up the whole side panel. (I'll post a photo of mine when I get home)
Interstingly, when I got the set, the TV worked great, but the filters in the radio were totally gone, I guess the ones in the TV were higher quailty, or maybe somebody only used the TV, causing the radio's filters to dry out. Unlike my other TV/Radio, an 8" Emerson from 1956, this set has a totally seperate radio chasiss, with its own amplifier, and volume control, though I think the TV and radio share a speaker.
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04-08-2005, 10:43 PM
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I think that GE, more than anyone else, got a radio chassis down to the bare bones. Some of the GE AA5's I've seen (from the late50s/60s) are super simple. Probably would have cost the General more to tie the 2 chassis' together than to just keep them seperate. So the General made its own radios, its own tubes, its own clocks, heck, they were/are big in plastics so maybe they made the cabinet in house-pretty easy for them to just slap the whole shebang together. They could have added a toaster oven so you could warm up your pizza rolls while you were watching Laugh-In!
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Bryan
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04-10-2005, 08:25 PM
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Well, I won this TV for $9.99. I like the design of it, especially the clock.
Maxm, what does your clock panel look like on yours? Last edited by tv beta guy; 04-10-2005 at 08:47 PM.
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04-11-2005, 12:28 AM
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I've got one jus like maxm's set, only mine is in a beige cabinet instead of simulated woodgrain. Mine's in pretty bad shape, I found it on the side of the road a couple years ago. It worked-ish as found, only the picture didn't fill the whole screen vertically, and the radio produced only a loud 60 cycle hum. I replaced the electrolytics in the radio, and that solved that problem. I had one HELL of a time getting the radio out of there, mainly because I couldn't get the @#$&* knob off the front! I originally thought it had been glued back on at one point, since the television knobs both slid off rather easily. After much effort I was able to get the knob off, but I managed to damaged the shaft of it - turns out that the thing was secued in with an odd metal clip that would have to have been removed from the other side. It was at that moment that I realized the only way to really work on the set was to remove the metal housing from the front panel - a thought that hadn't occured to me before (it was really late...), since it seemed that most parts could be removed from the back. I had never seen a radio knob secured like that before, and couldn't believe just how much of a pain it was to work on that little set. It's still sitting on a shelf somewhere, partially disassembled, waiting for me to come up with a good way to repair that knob, and some other things, it needs some electronic help to correct the vertical issues, and it needs a lot of cleaning and other cosmetic work. It was one of those sets that I found and saved to play with - planned on fixing it and using it somewhere, and never finished. I'll fix it one of these days...
Anyway - hopefully you can learn from my mistakes, and now you know how the knob is held onto the radio... -Ian
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04-11-2005, 06:41 PM
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04-11-2005, 03:18 AM
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Congrats Mike, glad someone from AK got this. I was considering it at one point.....but the seller had screwed up the postage calculator and it quoted me $6 to Calif! You may have noted my question to him.....anyway he replied and stated that he had corrected it, but when I checked the auction the calculator was gone altogether! I e-mailed him again asking for an estimate and he never responded. Gave me a hinky feeling so that clinched it for me---not to bid. I don't see the need for the buyer to calculate postage, often the seller wants to tack on more than their actual costs and I want to be clear about this BEFORE BIDDING. Ya know? Hope it works out for you!
Anthony
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04-22-2005, 03:45 AM
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Coolness! Am glad you got a goody.....how much was the S&H?
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04-22-2005, 05:42 PM
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Wow! The inside of your set is pristine compared to mine, which looks like it sepnt its life in a greasy kitchen. When you had it open, you didn't happen to note the CRT type, the label is missing from mine and would like to know what type of tube it uses.
Thanks
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