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Originally Posted by jpdylon
The CRT on that has got to be burnt to a crisp with that instant on...  |
Also, that CRT looks to me like it has the worst case of cataracts on earth; that or else someone knocked the neck off, and the phosphors blew off the center of the screen from the sudden inrush of air when the tube lost its vacuum. That would be my best guess as to why the set isn't working, and it is also possible (even likely) that the seller doesn't want to put any more money into a set as old as this one.
My aunt had a Westinghouse color console TV (23-25 inch rectangular CRT, IIRC) in the late sixties, with instant on. When she got the set she lived a very short distance from the TV transmitters serving Cleveland, so she could get all three Cleveland network affiliates without an antenna or simply with a length of wire on the antenna terminals. She moved to another Cleveland suburb, located 20+ miles from the stations, a year or so later and was still able to get every Cleveland station using rabbit ears (including the three UHF stations on the air at the time). That set had a very good picture as well, and my aunt/cousins used it quite a bit when they had it, but then the TV must have developed some serious problem (I forget after all these years what it was) after about five years (IIRC), so she (gasp!) trashed it and got a new, smaller portable, one of those black plastic cubes such as are commonplace these days. The Westinghouse console probably (most likely) wound up in a landfill,
unless some electronics bug picked it up and restored it before the trash people hauled it away. The latter was very common in the sixties and seventies; I built up quite a collection of old sets, from Admiral to Zenith (except Magnavox) from picking them up in the neighbors' trash.
Speaking of Magnavox (the real Magnavox Company of Fort Wayne, Indiana, decades before Philips-Magnavox), I saw only one Magnavox TV, a large-screen color console, in my neighborhood when I was a kid; it was owned by a distant cousin of mine who lived at the north end of the street I grew up on. The only other Magnavox set I can remember seeing anywhere on the east side of Cleveland belonged to an elderly woman who went to our church; that set was a 12" consolette Maggie, IIRC, in a dark-wood cabinet and with the controls, including the tuner, mounted in a recessed spot on top of the cabinet with a sliding door that could hide them when not in use.
07-22-2008, 01:18 AM
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