Just got an Emerson TV clock radio

[AiboPet]

I'm at work, but do happen to have at least a couple pics of the RCA Lunar from when I was cleaning it up. I got this for around $20 at a swap meet as well. The guy said it was NOT running...and had been sitting for a real long time in an abandoned storage unit he bought. I remember this quite clearly because I have seen this guy on TV so many times on some TV program about bidding on storage units. He's real annoying and yells "yuuuuuppp!" all the time (Which he was ALSO doing there at the Kobey's Swap Meet as well....REAL annoying!).

Anyways....I brought the set home and it's a bit yellowed, and it sat around quite a bit before I got to it. I had it apart awhile and was PISSED at myself for losing it's aerial at some point (but I found it since ). Aside from it needing a good cleaning....the set came up right away to a blank raster. I did a quick "blowing out" of the tuner and boards with just a "canned air" thing.....and ran it awhile with the thing all apart for a few weeks. The clock keeps PERFECT time! This is good, because I've never really worked on these flip clocks before...and was told NOT to go around trying to "oil" anything or I would ruin it.

It really needs to come apart again and get a "proper" tuner cleaning. Everything works, but sometimes have to flip the channels to get a signal back....but otherwise it has a GOOD strong picture and great sound!

The pics are from about a year or so ago after the set sat around for about a year before that. One of my first sets after I lost Dad and ended up with his half a dozen sets which started my collection. I think the only pic of it fully whole is the one with the Sony 301 sitting on top of it a few months ago.

Okay....Looks like an "upload error" shows that I had uploaded these pics before on THIS thread:
http://videokarma.org/showthread.php?t=254765

That thread also reminds me that I guess the clock motor WAS frozen when I got it....but now I remember that simply moving it some made it start spinning again. It had sat several months in MY closet before I even got to it myself.

[rpm1200]

Originally Posted by AiboPet

I'm at work, but do happen to have at least a couple pics of the RCA Lunar from when I was cleaning it up. I got this for around $20 at a swap meet as well. The guy said it was NOT running...and had been sitting for a real long time in an abandoned storage unit he bought. I remember this quite clearly because I have seen this guy on TV so many times on some TV program about bidding on storage units. He's real annoying and yells "yuuuuuppp!" all the time (Which he was ALSO doing there at the Kobey's Swap Meet as well....REAL annoying!).

LOL, Dave Hester from Storage Wars!

Glad you did find the aerial. That Sanyo in the background is a beauty, too. I collect 80s boomboxes and the Sanyo is definitely my kind of aesthetic. (That might give you an idea of why the Emerson grew on me so much, too!)