Unbelievable

[Electronic M]

This is the second most disturbing thing I've seen today!

I went to my local Goodwill and rushed up to what I thought was a 40's Airline console that was painted black and was missing the grill cloth and backer board below the single grille bar......Something felt amiss, and when I saw the wine ice bucket inset into the top my heart sank as I realized that some A-hole had butchered a nice set to make it into a F'ing BAR! With what they had done to the cabinet and the knobs to make it in to a bar and get rid of the chassis all that was salvageable was the dial scale and bezel which to me ain't worth the 10$ they want. If I had met the person who did that I would have asked them If I could repurpose their brains into soylent-green since they clearly were using their brains less than the chassis they tossed in the trash.

Some of these artsy-fartsy and green types' IQs could benefit from a a good lobotomy....They would have far less bad ideas that way.

[gellis]

NO!

You guys try to come up with too many far fetched conclusions.

The color of the label has nothing to do with suggesting the finish is green or "customized" from the factory.

Many 60's era RCA sets had those lime green labels then as I remember them clear as day from back in the early 70's when I worked on these.

It pretty much boiled down to who was the paper supplier for a particular run of labels, some were green, others white, others grey. And the cabinets didn't reflect the color of the label either...

[kx250rider]

Originally Posted by gellis

NO!

You guys try to come up with too many far fetched conclusions.

The color of the label has nothing to do with suggesting the finish is green or "customized" from the factory.

Many 60's era RCA sets had those lime green labels then as I remember them clear as day from back in the early 70's when I worked on these.

It pretty much boiled down to who was the paper supplier for a particular run of labels, some were green, others white, others grey. And the cabinets didn't reflect the color of the label either...

Actually, if the label was green, that means Sarnoff got lucky with his wife the night before the set was built. If it was white, she had a headache. If it was gray, Sarnoff couldn't perform, and was embarrassed If the label was missing, he had secretly seen a woman of ill repute that night.

Charles

[wa2ise]

Originally Posted by kx250rider

Actually, if the label was green, that means Sarnoff got lucky ... If the label was missing, he had secretly seen a woman of ill repute that night.

Charles

Actually, down at the old RCA Labs in Princeton, as there were no decent hotels in the immediate area back in Sarnoff's day, RCA had built a small wing off the company library that had a small apartment for him to stay the night if he visited the labs. Maybe... there was something going on in there related to said woman...