Older GE 15" b/w tv...

[snelson903]

oh i know about that ! its getting real hard to find tube stuff. i got away from collecting in 96 because of a flood in my area ,i used to work on peoples tv's on the side for extra money in the 80's i grew up playing with tv's radios anything i could drag home , but i got a wife & a house young i needed money so i worked for oldsmobile durring the day sometimes at night to , and if people need there tv worked on or vcr i would do that to .i just couldnt make alot of money at tv repair at that time buy the 90's people just would not spend the money on tv's anymore ,they could go out and buy a cheap chinese set or japan set or what ever made it. and by this time i started my own auto repair shop so i realy had no time now . i had everything i collected since i was a kid in the basement when the flood happened i lost everything . plus i had to rebuild the west block wall 32 feet of it. it was easy finding tube stuff in the late 70's it was all around ,it wasnt nothing to find a roundie color set in someones trash ,in there garage ,sets from the 50's they would give them to you . after dragging all the stuff out of basement with a bobcat i just kinda let it go ,my shop and family consumed all my time ,but thats what i realy wanted to do since i was a kid be a tv repairman and have my own shop / store extr. but it wasnt like it was when i was growing up ,tv's like cars and everthing else today they use them and throw them out ,after 18 yrs of owning my shop i developed degenerative artheritis in my spine , now i cant work .so instead of rotting away in frt of the tv on pain meds i started playing with electronics again ,and it didnt take long how much i enjoyed working on tube stuff again, but now i couldnt find any tube stuff i know needed test equitment so started signal generators off ebay all tube stuff just to rebuild it built back up my test equitment repaired what was left from the flood ,started running a add on craigslist asking for older tv's to buy with tubes ran into another guy doing the same thing i emailed him and talk to him for a little bit and he told me about a website called videokarma and i check it out and was full of people just as tv & tube crazzy as me . i really wanted another tube set now after seeing what some of these guys have ,the first guy talked to was miniman82 and he had a tube set ,so i went and got it then another came from craigslist 55 zenith love it ,and a magi roundie 68 off craigslist so im hooked again