GE 800 and Predicta Siesta scored

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A few months back I met a fellow, local collector who sold me my Admiral 24A12. A real nice guy with some cool stuff Well, I heard from him yesterday and he's moving down to Texas but the collection isn't. So I went over to take a look at what he had left.

That turned out to be a Predicta Siesta, GE 800 "locomotive", a nice Zenth tombstone and a bunch of smaller 40s radios.

Mainly I was interested in the Siesta with original stand. The GE 800 has some damage to the top vent and a crack all along the bottom. The speaker is trashed too and it's a little rough inside. However, I tested the CRT and it's good so I dragged it home too.

Actually, both CRTs tested better than most, if not all, of my other tubes. That's great except now I think I need to revise what I considered to be a "good" CRT. Maybe all my others aren't as good as I though. I guess time will tell.

Here they are in the garage. Both have all their original knobs, but, as usual, the Predicta has no antenna. At least it has a nice plate to cover the hole.



I was surprised to discover that the stand is mostly wood. I had figured it was metal.




I'll know more once I bring them inside and take a closer look.