Westinghouse color console on epay

[firenzeprima]

Originally Posted by radiotvnut

This item is not mine nor do I have any connection to it. I'm simply posting it here in case anyone is interested.

I just found this Westinghouse rectangular color console on epay. This set has potential. It's located in New Orleans, about 180 miles from here. I might bid on this one if I thought there was an economical way to get it over here. My Mother would kill me if I asked her to drive me that far to get "another console TV". This needs to be saved by someone. This is the first Westinghouse color set I've ever seen.

http://cgi.ebay.com/beautiful-50s-TV...QQcmdZViewItem

what happened to kinescope? This model was "instant on" a real scourge for the life of CRT

[rcaman]

Originally Posted by jpdylon

The CRT on that has got to be burnt to a crisp with that instant on...

correct me if i am wrong and i probley am. the heater voltage was not 6.3v in stand by and there was no emmission being produced in the standby mode was there. didnt most tv stations leave their transmitters on after going off the air and reduced the power on them. the theory was the cycling of the filiments was harder on the tubes than just lowering the filiments. i seen tons of instant on rca,s and zeniths and i never saw them go down faster seems to me like they always had a better picture than the warm up filiments and the ones around here lasted for years and years. we need to do some research on this. steve

[radiotvnut]

I've seen many Zenith Chromacolor sets from the '70's that placed the full 6.3 volts on the filament at all times. I don't recall seeing a bad CRT in any Zenith with instant on. My cousin had an early '70's RCA XL100 with instant on. The tube was replaced in the late '70's or early '80's and the replacement tube was still strong in the late '90's when the set got tossed.

However, I've seen plenty of instant on sets with fried CRT's. I always blamed this on the instant on feature; but, it could have very well been a lousy tube that would have gone bad anyway. I recently junked a solid state Curtis Mathes instant on set with a totally fried (Westinghouse) CRT.

All of the tube sets that I remember with instant on didn't have full voltage on the tubes in stand-by.

[mr_fixer]

I saw that the auction was relisted and the seller "GUTTED THE CABINET" no more tv chassis, just the wooden box
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...m=200245873719

[JB5pro]

I guess it's true that if you snooze you lose.
The doors on that cabinet have a cool look but I wouldn't consider having it without the main feature.
I predict they will have that cabinet until they give up and crush it.

[andy]

We should all email asking about the TV, and say that we wish we had seen it before they gutted it because it's a rare model that would have been worth thousands.

[JB5pro]

I told him he was an idiot for destroying the most important thing about the cabinet. I guess such a harsh statement makes me a bad person by the standards here. I'm a baaaaaaad boy!