Sylvania Chassis Research

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Originally Posted by DavGoodlin

The first Sylvania 21" round chassis that was not an RCA clone was the D01. I have a DO2 that needs a tuner cluster and I believe the first rectangular set., found in late 1965 magazine advertisements.
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If you can cobble together the right pots and a tuner subber it should be possible to run it...It may even be possible to find compatible tuners with channel wheels the right size and build up a new tuner cluster that could pass for the original. Could be a fun engineering game.

Originally Posted by DavGoodlin

The "holy grail" standard for a remote set may be the E01 that was very worthy competition for the Zenith CCI flat SS chassis, RCA XL100 and Motorola WID.

One nomenclature nit to pick. AFAIK there was no CCI just CC and CCII. CC was found on hybrids (and a few of early production SS sets) so I would not use it as a SS identifier. CCII was on both the flat chassis SS and the vertical chassis SS sets, but never the hybrid sets.