24" Magnavox from 1955.

[Eric H]

This was a Craigslist find, I wouldn't have gone after it but it was cheap at $25 so I figured a road trip would be fun, also I got a Silvertone Roundie from the same seller (see thread in Early Color)

The 24DP4 CRT is pretty tired, it'd work well with a brightener but it's not responding well to increased heater voltage (it drops quickly).
The seller told me he plugged it in and the 5U4 arced and blew out so I know it must have a shorted capacitor at least.

There was an attachment under the chassis shelf that the seller and I both thought was a home made kludge of some kind, turns out Magnavox was really serious about the sound of this set!
It has a separate push/pull 6V6 amplifier to run two huge speakers.
I'm sure I could get my money back on the Amp alone if I wanted to.

I'd really like to restore it but with a weak CRT it's going to have to sit until I find one. Cabinet is a little rough, could probably be fixed with Some Howards rather than a full refinish.

There was Silver Glo 24CP4 listed on eBay but I looked up the specs and the CP4 is electromagnetically focused and the DP4 is electrostatically focused, a major operation to modify it if it could be done at all.

Sorry, no face pictures yet, it's still face down in the Van.