Christmas 1962-Grandma's set. RCA?

[Dennman6]

Originally Posted by compucat

The control door is open. I wonder if the latch is broken or it was deliberately opened for frequent hold adjustment.

Very perceptive! I remember seeing my grandfather fiddling with those controls at almost every viewing when I was a kid. I thought it was normal for ALL TVs to need adjustments when they were first turned on! So it probably was a bad cap issue, solved when gramps bought another RCA in 1973. He never went for what he considered "major" repairs. If he couldn't get a problem solved with a cheaply priced tube & frequent minor adjustments, he got rid of the set rather than repair it. I wished they had kept this one The Zenith looked good in 1993 when Gram died, but there was a lot of plastic on that set.

[Dennman6]

Originally Posted by jr_tech

For sure, the drapes are a confusing factor, hiding the depth of the TV. I think that the true depth of the TV is seen only through the rung of the chair. I made a very crude measurement, comparing that dimension to the diameter of side knob and calculated a depth of about 20 inches, about right for a 90 degree tube?

jr

The other thing just barely visible through the rung of that chair is the 300 ohm flat lead going to the roof antenna. I am thinking this was a VHF only set, so probably channel 12 out of Binghamton was the only station received until the cable line went in.

[NoPegs]

I seem to have found one just like it... Well, I made the connection between threads. http://videokarma.org/showpost.php?p...80&postcount=1