rca xl-100 score

[sampson159]

scored a rca xl-100 from 1974 at the early television museum.this is a new set!! still boxed and palletised,from thompson electronics.they had two units. one was early american with legs and this one.still bolted to pallett. no bids at the silent auction. i bid,but i think someone lost it. i had to leave earlykentucky derby).steve called me and i picked it up saturday.got it for way less than the bid.34 years of storage didnt help this unit.all controls were extremely dirty and the tuner was a mess.thats the bad news.the good news-after a routine set-up,this set rules!!!beautiful 70s color. i remember those days.the only drawback is a particle board cabinet with vinyl woodgrain.i can live with that.forgot how good those rca crts were back then.will post pics soon!btw-he has a dumont roundie in the back-rca clone.anyone interested?

[rcaman]

i for one would like to see a picture of the set. what chassis is in the set. steve

[Eric H]

NIB?!? Awesome find, I'd like some pictures too please!

[MRX37]

HOLY S**T! man I've always wanted to see one of those when they were new.

[wkand]

Congratulations!

I want to see the BOX... <grin> This musta been from a deep dark corner of a former RCA warehouse if Thompson was selling it. When did this magical event occur?

[zenithfan1]

Those sets are nice, I am glad you picked one up. If we had the room in the van I would have grabbed one myself. Not every day that you see NIB stuff from the 70's!! The early american was nice, it only had a few rub marks from something sitting on the box. I wonder who got that one??

[Chad Hauris]

I saw those sets on the museum page...one of those looked like a CTC-68. Very nice find!

[rcaman]

we bought a new 25" rca xl100 in 1975 it had the ctc168 chassis and it was a very good tv set. steve

[sampson159]

here are some pics of my xl-100. also some pics of my infocus 106" dlp projector in my movie room.














the last two are my projector.

[mr_fixer]

That is awesome! you did keep the box for future generations?

[zenithfan1]

Just spotted the pics, you made out like a bandit on this one Ron!! The picture is gorgeous! Best I've seen on an XL-100. That chassis is gleaming! I must say I'm a bit jealous {happy grin} We should have strapped the other one to the roof of the van!!LOL!! Would have been worth it for a picture like that!

[zenith2134]

You can truly eat off of that chassis. Amazing find!

You're kind of lucky that the set's original electrolytics stayed good with no use after all those years.

I wouldn't go easy with the user picture controls on this set considering its (babied) history! I mean, even with heavy use these sets still turn up working after 30 years.

[sampson159]

thanks ! contrast is set at minimum.my mom had a set like that back in the late 80s.tube went south and i put in a sylvania 25vap22.good swap.i like this one alot and it will go to my room beside the zenith.can t wait to get that sylvania from bryan.my triple crown!!will post pics after i do a real set-up on it.

[rcaman]

i very well remember the xl100 sticker on the face of the tube. even though my mon ordered our xl100 when it was delivered dad wouldnt allow the sticker to come off for a couple or three days to make sure we were going to keep it. he thought seriously about having a new crt installed in our old admiral roundie. he said this rca is to bright and to yellow he was just not used to the vivid colors of a solid state set. we kept the set and the dealer patched up our old roundie and sold it foe us we got $50.00 for it. steve

[Big Dave]

Ron, Nice score. If you need boards and that, I have stock in Warren if you would ever need them. The pic on your set is great. I think I also have a CRT for the XL or Colortrak series. If you need parts, give me a email.