unearthed a Capehart!.....neat story.

[kbmuri]

jp,

Well you surprised me, your TV has the late tuner like the other CX-33's I mentioned (mine and the other AK'ers). I would have guessed the 3012's were all early. The early tuner has a knob, identical except the numbers are more compactly spaced and only go half-way around the circumference of the knob (see photo). So your entire chassis is just like ours. There doesn't seem to be any hard-fast rules on what TV got what tuner I guess. Maybe just whatever was available that day at the factory. The photo of the halfway-round tuner was from a local-pickup-only eBay TV out of my driving range, so I didn't get it. I'd like to find one someday.

You'll have lots of trouble finding the brass badge. As the sets aged, a person had to adjust the vertical hold a lot, and it got too tiresome to unscrew the badge-mount screws every time, so people left the badge off and eventually lost it. Quite a few of the eBay TVs have had it missing. I don't know if it's worth the trip for you to go back where you bought it and ask the guy if you can look around for it, but I think I'd at least try that. Barring that, ask around the forum. Or hamfests in the junk bins. Same photo (attached) has a good shot of the badge, print it off and take it with you.

Polaraman also has a CX-33 in his model 324. I forgot to mention that one. So I guess we're up to around seven of them in AK hands. Should be a good reservior of experience between us all.

The Picture tube is mounted to the chassis, not the cabinet. As retrohacker showed us here: http://audiokarma.org/forums/attachm...7&d=1146310262
It's pretty heavy so be careful carrying it from the cabinet to the workbench.

I can't sell you a copy of a photofact without being a criminal. I have an ethics base that won't allow it. The whole Napster thing made it clear what's "sharing" and what's not, so I'm sure I'm in the clear if I share one electronic copy, not very often, free of charge, not anonymously, to a friend or acquaintance, and with no premeditated intent of putting Sams out of business. Pretty strict world. I've given a CD to 3 AKers who specifically asked, with hi-res scans of the necessary documents (a couple sams, some Capehart service documents, a few pages from a most-often-needed manual, and some other odds-and-ends). The complete package will cover every question you might have. If you want one, PM me with your mailing address.

Enjoy this TV. It's a keeper.

- Kirk