tube tv ?

[radio nut]

This set looks like a vacuum tube black and white my parents owned . Does anybody recognize this set?

[radiotvnut]

I had a Japanese built Sears that looked like that. Actually, I think it was built by Toshiba and was sold under many store brands.

[David Roper]

Looks like an early 60s Admiral. Sometime back I had two of them with different sized tubes; if I'm right this looks like the smaller one.

[radio nut]

Ok, what screen size would you guess and vacuum tube set then? I do not know when solid state first started on tv's

[radio nut]

The owner said it worked but I did not want to ask too may questions and appear too interested and maybe have the price go up

[Sandy G]

If that's an Admiral, I have 2-Both 8". They are REALLY, REALLY thin-like 6" or so.

[Eric H]

Most Admirals from that era had a big round badge at the top corner of the screen with the tube size on it. i.e. a circle with an 8 inside was an 8" set.

I was thinking this might be a Sears set?

[radio nut]

not solid state though ?

[bgadow]

That does look kinda like the late 60s Sears logo, or maybe even Sharp? It strikes me as being Japanese. Very, very unlikely to be solid state.

[DavGoodlin]

A 16" "Magnet-box" I got from a neighbor looked like that. I was disappointed when I opened it up and recognized the tell-tale materials and gold-metal (NOT zenith) chassis. It did work OK with the usual tweaks.

[radio nut]

Its actually being sold with three other small sets and the owner mentioned them as being stone age tv's. I guess he hasn't seen the you tube video of a 1938 marconi set before let alone a televisor. If he still has it this weekend I will pick them up.

[sanjarali]

In many time ago I have a TV much same as yous. I gave to recondition modern look of silver TV over old wood at demands of my friends who made jokes of wood. but I was happy with after time. Warning bad! I did make new conversion of digital switches which caused a explosion of the vacuum inside the screen. do not add these to the TV unless you mount them away from screen.

[kx250rider]

It's Japanese-built, and might be a Sharp. I've seen just about every badge on those from Admiral to Magnavox to Philco, Wards Airline, Bradford, and on and on. It's a tube hybrid with a half dozen or so tubes in a string. Weird Japanese Compactron tubes, beware!

Charles

[radio nut]

beware ? are these tubes hard to find?

[radiotvnut]

As I understand it, some of those tubes were hard to find back in the day.