Sets that you feel sorry for.....

[Steve D.]

Originally Posted by Eric H

That's a nice set Tim!

I felt sorry for this 59ish RCA that was at a local auction, it was missing most of it's knobs and someone had started to paint it pink.

It's been overhauled, pink removed and some knobs from a later set installed, it works pretty well now.

Eric,

Your orphan RCA portable reminded me of the 2 portables my folks bought new in 1959. One was that exact model RCA, the other was a Westinghouse. The RCA outlasted the Westy by many years. Found this photo of the RCA shortly after it was purchased.

-Steve D.

[dieseljeep]

Originally Posted by Steve D.

Eric,

Your orphan RCA portable reminded me of the 2 portables my folks bought new in 1959. One was that exact model RCA, the other was a Westinghouse. The RCA outlasted the Westy by many years. Found this photo of the RCA shortly after it was purchased.

-Steve D.

Little wonder, about the RCA. Full power transformer and higher performance design.

[wkand]

Originally Posted by Steve D.

Eric,

Your orphan RCA portable reminded me of the 2 portables my folks bought new in 1959. One was that exact model RCA, the other was a Westinghouse. The RCA outlasted the Westy by many years. Found this photo of the RCA shortly after it was purchased.

-Steve D.

I had an RCA set like that in high school. It was battle wagon for sure. Only two things ever went wrong. Filter cap and the CRT wore out after 16 years of hard labor. Still had all of its original tubes IIRC. I still have the power xfrmr and some of the tubes.

[Kamakiri]

Well, this DuMont is far less spectacular than the last few, but it was either I save it or the owner was thinking of making it into a dog bed

Drove out to a farm in the country and brought home this ugly but saveable DuMont RA-312 "Winsted". Picture tube is an RCA replacement, and everything seems like it's there. Going to need to find some knobs and a control door, at the very least.

What the heck, it was only $20, and I'm totally out of ugly looking sets

[zeno]

Originally Posted by Steve D.

Eric,

Your orphan RCA portable reminded me of the 2 portables my folks bought new in 1959. One was that exact model RCA, the other was a Westinghouse. The RCA outlasted the Westy by many years. Found this photo of the RCA shortly after it was purchased.

-Steve D.

Thats normal. I never met a Westinghouse I liked. The only one with
a cool factor was the first instant on 19" B&W. It had a dark sun screen
& when off had a still modern look being a totally black. The only
colors I remember were the ones with the Saturn 5 HV cage.
Right down there with Emerson, easily worse than even GE or
early all tube Jap sets.

73 Zeno