I brought this set back from SC and it was in a room where the roof leaked and the ceiling caved in; however, I think it will clean up fairly well. At first, we thought this may have been a hospital set, since the UHF tuner was blocked and the VHF antennas have plugs over where they would have been. When I got this home, I found some indications that this was not a hospital TV. Looking at this set closer; there is no motorized tuner, no pillow speaker plug, and no 3 wire power cord. I don't know when hospital TV's started to be made with 3 wire power cords; but, I've had hospital sets as far back as the early '70's and all of them had 3 wire power cords. These conditions likely mean that this set was not used in a hospital. This set has a UHF tuner; but, it is covered by a plate on the front of the set. The only thing I can come up with is that this TV was a motel set as I've seen plenty of motel sets with blocked off UHF tuners.
As far as the TV itself, it is an 18" color TV that uses the 5 tube hybrid TS929 chassis. I'm guessing that this is one of the last Motorola tube sets from around '73-'74. I've not attempted to power it up; but, the CRT test good. I also noticed that it has a bunch of ERO caps; which, are likely bad.
How was the picture on these sets when they were working right?
11-05-2010, 02:06 PM
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