Sears Color TV 15gp22 clone

[Tom_Ryan]

Lots of thermal problems ...after the re-capping I added a small fan inside to keep the hotspots to a minimum.

[Bobby Brady]

Are we sure there were not Sears roundie 15" sets made?
If there were then we have other possible crt's. Could that Sears rectangle crt possibly be used in the RCA CT-100's in place of the round 15GP22's?

[Eric H]

Hmm, those don't look anything like the one I had, I'm sure it was square not rectangular and it looked more 1950's, I think it had a "Color" emblem under the screen.

I had a Japanese Sears similar to yours but it had a regular small neck tube that wasn't very deep.

[bigmsound]

Eric H,
I had that exact Sears (Made byToshiba) color TV. It was built very sturdy and it was very heavy (typical of most TV's from that era). I purchased it in 1968 and I threw it out around 1979 when the CRT went bad. It had a decent picture. It was serviced by Sears (under contract) due to a vertical shrinkage problem caused by an open resistor in the vertical output stage but that was it, this tv was quite solid. Toshiba sold the exact same set under their name.