Portable color sets from the sixties

[captainmoody]

I can see that Rob is getting upset about this forum becoming "corrupted" with our late sixties and early seventies sets, Even solid state stuff! Rightfully so, After all The title is "Early Color Television" A lot of the televisions that my friends and I have are of the much neglected "rectangular" variety. However these have their place in history, As well as collections. Most of the sets that I collect represent firsts for the companies that made them, Such as Motorola's first solid state color set or their first rectangular tube model, Etc. Maybe we could see if we could get our own forum for these orphans, It seems that there are enough of us now....
Anyway, Respecting Rob's wishes, I will no longer post any more pictures of sets here unless they fall under his guidelines.

[Kamakiri]

That is an excellent idea, captainmoody. Let's try an additional forum.

There's plenty of room on the server, so let's expand the forums to cover your interests

Now that I've added this forum, please make sure that you use it!

[captainmoody]

Thanks for starting the new forum!

[Rob]

Thanx for opening this New Forum for the collectors of the newer interesting TV's Tim!

Rob

Originally posted by captainmoody
Most of the sets that I collect represent firsts for the companies that made them, Such as Motorola's first solid state color set or their first rectangular tube model . . .

Do you have a Motorola TS-908? If so, would you post a picture?

[drh4683]

a 67 rca ctc22. Is this the 22 the first truly portable color tv from rca?

[drh4683]

I found this at an estate sale last october. It was kind of expensive considering what it was, $25. It did come with the manuals and is in really nice shape. couldnt pass it by or else the estate sale people would through it out. Of course, a hybrid. Looks to be possibly a ctc53 layout.

[rca2000]

Hello all- I also have several non-round color sets from the late sixties and early seventies. I knew that they were worth saving. Lets see if i can remember all of them(they are in my storage areas). I have a ctc-19,like the one posted ,a zenith 15y6c15, like the one posted a zenith 16z8c19, 19" set, a sony kv-1201, i think, from 1968 or so, and several 25" table and console sets- A ctc-40(and at least 2 complete chassis), a heath gr-395(?) 20" set from 1970, a zenith 25mc36 set form 1965(this was their first rectangular set)a ctc -68 rca from 1974, and then theres my crown jewell--My rca g-2000--with the ctc-47 chassis, from 1969.I also have at least a dozen rectangular b.w.sets, from the early 1950's to the early to mid 1960's. so, i do save the rectangular sets.

Right now, the only round color sets i have are my zenith 29jc20, and an rca ctc-11. I have a couple of ctc-12 chassis, and maybe ,some other parts for round sets.

Anymore, if i am at a sale ,or auction, and a color ,or b.w.t.v that is the least bit worth saving turns up, i go for them, if they are cheap, and i can afford them. I have also found a number of nice sets in the trash(the latest one was an rca kcs-102, i think, 15'" b.w. portable, from 1956. i found it last fall.) They turn up on e-bay regularry, and go for anywhere from $15 to $100.00 .

The same goes for old radios, and hi-fi items .You just never know what you may find out there. A couple of years ago, i found a chassis from a guitar amp using two 6l6"s (i do not know what brand it is, it is in my garage.) And last year ,i found a mcintosh mr-71 tuner, which i sold on e-bay, for $600. 00!!

[kc8adu]

thats a wells gardiner made sears.
our family got one new in 73 and when it broke it was my job to make it play so mom could watch dallas
this thing ate 40kd6's about 1 a year.it became a rifle target when the fly went.

Originally posted by drh4683
I found this at an estate sale last october. It was kind of expensive considering what it was, $25. It did come with the manuals and is in really nice shape. couldnt pass it by or else the estate sale people would through it out. Of course, a hybrid. Looks to be possibly a ctc53 layout.

[drh4683]

I found this one at an estate sale this weekend. You need a forklift to move this one around Its a 22" with no green halo, this is somewhat of a surprise. Beautiful picture on this zenith after a complete alignment. This is a 20X1C38, 1967. I was fortuntate enough to have the matching cart for it and all original tubes. The 6Z10 of course needed a change. Only one transistor in this chassis, a video driver. (and the UHF, but we all know that )

[drh4683]

I love the zenith chassis, the best! I like looking at them more than the tv itself

[captainmoody]

Here's my 1972 Zenith 20" Still works fine even after 15 years of storage.
It amazes me that the last time I used it was the summer of '88 and it is still in excellent shape, I thought that at least it might need a 'lytic after all that time.

[captainmoody]

My 1968 Admiral didn't do as well as the Zenith, The Horiz out went to air and the pva got a LOT worse. After replacing the bad tube though, The set came up with a great picture.

[Jeffhs]

Captainmoody, I'm glad to hear your '72 Zenith still works after 15 years in storage. Those old sets were made to last, that's for sure.

As for the electrolytics in your set, back when those TVs (and others before them) were new, the filter capacitors seemed to last forever. My grandmother had a 1936 Silvertone table radio that still worked with no hum even 40 years and more later, and with the same electrolytics as (I think) when the set was new. I purchased a 1951 Zenith table radio on ebay last year that still works like a champ (very little or no hum that I can hear), even with its original filters. I think this might be close to a record for a set made in the early '50s.

I used to collect old TVs and such back in the 1970s, but had to give it up when I moved to an apartment late in 1999. I had just about every major make of TV except Magnavox in my basement by the time I moved (the first time, in mid-1972), and many of the sets worked for quite a while, but some of them (like my old Philco Microgrid 390 console TV) developed very expensive problems which sent them straight to the junkpile.

Good luck.

[captainmoody]

Here's a Portacolor I found in the trash this morning, It was four houses down from me.
Manufactured April 1975, All original and works great!