When One Door Closes Another One Opens - The '54 Maggie Story

[CurtisMathes]

Originally Posted by wa2ise

Back in around 1960 my father acquired a bare TV set (chassis with CRT, but no cabinet) that looked an awful lot like yours. The channel knob looks the same as I remember, as well as the rectifier tube atop the power transformer. This chassis had no audio amplifier, so my father ran a cable from the sound detector to his pair of monoblock audio amps. Which in turn drove some big speakers we had in the living room, which the TV chassis sat atop one of. Only thing was that the sound came out of the other of the stereo speaker pair, sitting about 8 feet away from the TV. As TV was in mono he only fired up one of the monoblocks, and we never bothered or get around to swapping the speaker/amp connections to make the TV sound come out in the speaker just under the TV...

It's long gone, as well as any schematics too...

Rod Stewart was right. Every picture does tell a story.

[CurtisMathes]

Dug a little deeper. Looks like her chassis is a '52 design - a CT 306. She was sold is November of '53. A leftover?

Looks like I'll be looking for a Sam's 161-4

[Eric H]

Here's an ad dated 11/51, probably for the 52 model year.

The CRT is what was sold in 53, that's the warranty card, looks like the original CRT only lasted two years at most.

[CurtisMathes]

Originally Posted by Eric H

Here's an ad dated 11/51, probably for the 52 model year.

The CRT is what was sold in 53, that's the warranty card, looks like the original CRT only lasted two years at most.

The warranty card kind of implies a Sylvania CRT was sold in Nov 53. It has a GE now. Man, this thing really eats picture tubes.