Philco rescued from the Prop house.

[fsjonsey]

Well, I dragged another set home from college. I'm currently working as a sound tech for the theater department as part of an independent study project. Last week, my professor was cleaning out a barn used for prop storage, and I visited him there to discuss some issues with the PA system. While I was there, I checked out the loft of the barn. It was completely dark up there, but using my cell phone for light, I caught the glint of a CRT. A few minutes later, I dragged this out into the light of day for the first time in god knows how many years.

It's a Philco "Deluxe 23." It has to be from the early 60's, as the Philco-Ford name appears nowhere on the set. The power cord was badly deteriorated, but the cabinet was in immaculate shape for sitting in the loft of a run down, unheated barn for close to thirty years. I grabbed a cheater cord from the basement, and plugged it in. It works great, and the filter caps test like new on my ESR meter. I'm pretty sure that at one time, this set occupied the lounge of one of our residence halls, as it has a dorm name and floor number written on the cabinet back.
If I hadn't saved it, it would have ended up being gutted and used as a stage prop. Right now I'm using it to watch DVD's of The Twilight Zone and Peter Gunn. The tuner is a bit dirty, but I'll take care of that when I get the time.

Also, it appears that the UHF tuner was added later, as I found the tuner delete plate lying loose in the cabinet when I took the back off. It's just a little gold pop-on button with UHF printed on it.