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03-08-2008, 04:07 PM
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I HAD to bid on it.... I want to own the ugliest TV in the world!
After reviewing the listing, I think I figured it out... here is what the ad says "You are bidding on a 19" GE color TV built into a beautiful cabinet." I think the original guts are gone, and in place is a 19" color TV. Matt K. 
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03-09-2008, 09:16 AM
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New insides...?
Hey Matt,
You could ask the guy if the internal parts appear original--I suspect they are. This TV does not appear to have had the CRT replaced with a more modern tube--the old picture tubes have a specific curve, which the new sets do not have...and this really looks like the original CRT is in place. It might have been replaced in the late 50s or 1960s, but even then, B&W and Color CRTs would not be easily interchangeable, in the same mask. Of course, if you win, you'll know soon enough! Harry
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03-09-2008, 11:13 AM
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"Working", and "color"??
Somebody's full of "black beauties"...
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03-09-2008, 04:17 PM
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Nice! It seems to be a furniture for office!
Perhaps there is a 21 inches square color tube from 1957 (displayed in ETF site).
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03-09-2008, 04:21 PM
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 a capacitor?
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03-09-2008, 04:27 PM
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Yep, Gianni, it is...An' they sure ain't "Beautiful"...Means you've got a lot of work w/a Soldering Iron to do...replacing all of 'em. A guy told me of a sure-fire way to tell if an old capacitor was bad...Take it out of the radio, TV, whatever in question. Hold it at yr head's level over a trash can. Drop it. If it goes "Bangety-Bang-Bang", "Clankety-Clank-Clank", or something similar when it hits the trash can, it is bad, & needed replacing...
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03-09-2008, 04:33 PM
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03-09-2008, 09:17 PM
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I have a question. What do you do with all of these old sets after the digital switchover happens next year? They are basically nonfunctional decorations right? What a shame.............
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03-09-2008, 10:37 PM
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There might be some issues with the 16:9 format depending on whether the box will allow you to stretch the picture to fit the screen.
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03-10-2008, 11:47 AM
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They just forgot to turn it over before they took the picture.
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03-10-2008, 11:56 AM
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It would be tempting to modify the cabinet like that, rotate the yoke...sure as shootin' it's b/w. If it were color it would be one-of-a-kind and worth a fortune. I think the reason it comes across as so unattractive is that we are all so used to looking at the standard "knobs on bottom" style and this is just "wrong". If you grew up with this set in your house you would feel the opposite...maybe. This is a practical design, at least.
For some reason I never come across any GE stuff from this era. Tons of later stuff, though.
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03-10-2008, 01:47 PM
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Be sure to give this information to all of your friends and family, as well.
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03-10-2008, 02:23 PM
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In an answer to the question earlier in this thread referring to the chassis location as possibly being wrapped around the CRT....
In my youth, we had a GE set like this. Ours was in a more economy cabinet without doors. The chassis was installed on a shelf above the CRT. The HV cage looked like a round can installed on the chassis. Our set had a pair of 8" speakers... one on each side. How do I know all of this? When we replaced the set in the early 1960's, after years of yearly repairs, it was given to me to tinker with... They didnt really think I could fix it, but I did, and got another year or so out of it before I did take it apart. I remember it having a lone 6AH4GT tube that looked really funky looking thru the back of the set at the glowing chassis. I remember that the usual repairs on this set were always the same: 1B3GT HV rectifier, and a 6BQ6GT horizontal output. I still have a couple of the dead replacement Tung Sol tubes from this set, too.
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03-11-2008, 07:50 PM
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