another ruined console

[Jeffhs]

I see nothing wrong with transplanting a modern TV into an older 3-way console.

Many times this is done if the owner of the set likes the looks of the cabinet, and doesn't want to give it up. I had two great-uncles who did the same thing with their old 3-way entertainment centers when the TVs went belly-up; both sets looked and worked great after the retrofit jobs. In both cases, one would have been hard-put to tell if the TV was a retrofit, as the replacement sets fit the opening once occupied by the original color chassis almost perfectly. Both sets had a wood frame around the TV opening, to compensate for the differences in width, height, etc. between the original chassis and its modern replacement.

The seller of the TV console mentioned here does mention that "everything works", so the stereo components must be working at least passably.

BTW, when I saw the title of this thread, "Another ruined console", I was half expecting to see a TV with a badly defaced cabinet (scratches, dings, chipped or missing veneer...) and perhaps a mess where the control panel was mounted, as I saw some time ago with the photos of an older Magnavox 3-way set here on VK. As it was at the time, that one was a safety and health hazard, with all those diabetic testing supplies (needles, strips....) strewn around the master control panel, and the cabinet itself being infested with bugs, spiders, having bits of rotted wood inside--sheeesh! Never saw such a mess inside a TV set in my life. I forget who had (or may still have) this TV (I'm sure it's someone here in this forum), but I'm wondering whether they ever got the bugs out (literally) and got the set working again.