Cool Heathkit

[Eric H]

Unusual corner unit!
Someone needs to grab this one, a little too pricey tho.

http://cgi.ebay.com/1969-RCA-Heathki...QQcmdZViewItem

[bgadow]

One of a kind, for certain!

[old_tv_nut]

Rca?

[edit - why won't it let me type RCA in caps above?]

[Jeffhs]

Originally Posted by Eric H

Unusual corner unit!
Someone needs to grab this one, a little too pricey tho.

http://cgi.ebay.com/1969-RCA-Heathki...QQcmdZViewItem

I never saw a Heathkit color TV in a cabinet like that; most of Heath's console TV cabinets were made of darker wood and were much lower to the floor, but if one simply bought the TV kit itself without the cabinet he/she would have a free hand as far as deciding what type of cabinet in which to install it. That was probably the case with this one. No matter. The cabinet still looks very unique and will make a very nice addition to someone's living room, den or family room.

BTW: The high opening bid may be simply because of the sheer uniqueness of the cabinet. The custom cabinet looks as if it must have been quite expensive in its day; perhaps the set's present owner is taking that into account. The TV chassis itself isn't worth any sky-high opening bid, IMHO; it looks to me like a garden-variety late-'60s Heathkit color set.

[Jeffhs]

Disregard. Duplicate post.

[MRX37]

Originally Posted by old_tv_nut

Rca?

[edit - why won't it let me type RCA in caps above?]

I've had this problem too!! Not just with RCA but other stuff.

If I want to type in all caps, I'LL TYPE IN ALL CAPS!

Hm...

RCA RCA RCA RCA It's working fine now...

[zenith2134]

Yeah. This one is truly something unique. I've never seen one like it.

Could be worth the price

[Jeffhs]

Originally Posted by MRX37

I've had this problem too!! Not just with RCA but other stuff.

If I want to type in all caps, I'LL TYPE IN ALL CAPS!

Hm...

RCA RCA RCA RCA It's working fine now...

I was going to suggest that you check the caps lock key on your keyboard. If it's on, you will get lower case with the shift key depressed and caps when you let up on it--just the opposite of how it normally works.

[MRX37]

Originally Posted by Jeffhs

I was going to suggest that you check the caps lock key on your keyboard. If it's on, you will get lower case with the shift key depressed and caps when you let up on it--just the opposite of how it normally works.

No, something on this forum changes certain acronyms to lowercase. I've been noticing this for awhile, and I find it to be very irritating.

[wkand]

I did not know that Heath OEM'd RCA sets. Were they kits, or preassembled?

[Eric H]

It doesn't look like a regular RCA chassis, maybe their PC boards & parts with a Heathkit chassis layout?

[KentTeffeteller]

Hi,

I do know that tube era Heathkit Color TV sets were RCA CTC inspired if not clones thereof. Late era Heathkit Color TV sets were very Zenith. I put one together in 1976. Took me all summer to do. It was an assembly job for a physicist neighbor who worked for ORNL. He paid me $300 for the job, a lot of money for a 13 year old. He still uses it (now with a DTV converter box). He started assembling it then and didn't have the time to finish it. Very superb picture and engineering, these Heathkit sets were. His was in a French Provencial cabinet.

[trinescope]

I'll put the early solid-state Heathkits in the RCA camp as well; they used the dual SCR horizontal deflection circuit like the CTC-40, etc. At least the ones I had used them.

[Eric H]

It's back, and cheaper!

http://cgi.ebay.com/1969-RCA-Heathki...QQcmdZViewItem

[kx250rider]

Originally Posted by KentTeffeteller

Hi,

I do know that tube era Heathkit Color TV sets were RCA CTC inspired if not clones thereof. Late era Heathkit Color TV sets were very Zenith. I put one together in 1976. Took me all summer to do. It was an assembly job for a physicist neighbor who worked for ORNL. He paid me $300 for the job, a lot of money for a 13 year old. He still uses it (now with a DTV converter box). He started assembling it then and didn't have the time to finish it. Very superb picture and engineering, these Heathkit sets were. His was in a French Provencial cabinet.

The Heath roundies were physically very close to the CTC-15, then the one which is the subject of this thread (GR-295) is a Canadian Electrohome-based chassis, I remember hearing at some time. Same for the first solid state GR-2000. Then the last ones from the 80s were indeed all Zenith.

Charles