Found a Westy!

[Electronic M]

The gold and tweed colored set is a 1958 Setchell Carlson 17". The redish brown and chocloate colored thing the Setchell sits on is the top of a 1953 Zenith 21" table set with factory stand (that Zenith was my first sucessful electrical TV restoration BTW).

What suprises me the most about my porthole is that it is still working on all original capacitors (with the exception of 3-4 maroon drop type replacement caps that appear to have been replaced in the 60's-70's), and that is something that the law of probability says should not happen.

I sometimes think of startting a blog about my restorations too, then I think "I can yak about all the restoration work I do right here (and on ARF), get feedback/advise and not have to figure out how to make my self a web page". I'm an anachronism in my own generation being able to work on complex analog dinosaurs like TVs, and yet only in the last couple of years starting to learn how to use a computer.

Good luck on your restoration!

PS: Remember to change all the electrolytic, and paper caps, as well as the micas in the deflection circuits. One can sometimes make sets of that vintage work with some of those original caps in, but the preformance and relaibility usually suffer with originals remaining.