the catch of the week

[snelson903]

motorola just brought home from deep in the woods of michigan ,looks kinda like that 1955 zenith i got a month ago

[Sandy G]

Kewl set...You guys up away from here are SO lucky...We NEVER find stuff like that down here... We didn't HAVE TV til '54, TVs were expensive, & NE TN was still a pretty "Poor" place then....We didn't have AC power county-wide til '52, & I'm sure even in '55, there were a few holdouts who didn't want it/couldn't afford it.

[Mal Fuller]

Argh!!!!!
When I first had a look at your first photo of the set's rear view, I thought your LED festooned flashlight was some kind of nightmare ballast.

[magnasonic66]

Good looking set, have fun with it!

[snelson903]

my mom brothers became tv repairmen after ww2 they got there first tv in the late 40's one little roundie , & my dad didnt see tv till about 52, dad seen one in georgia when he was in boot camp for korea when he served over sea's,and he also grew up in eljin illinois never seen a tv he hurd of them though,he said only the rich had them back then ,you had to have money or a good study job. up here in the north wasnt to different from the south my mom said alot of people were still useing out house's in late 50's in this area.

[snelson903]

that flashlight i have can be a pain , dont like the big magnet at the end ,its ok sometimes just don't like to get it to close to digital electronic's esp. when working some parts of modern cars like dash clusters. or like color picture tubes ,but if that happens i made a long time ago a hand held degauseing coil

[hi_volt]

Nice looking set....and looks pretty clean, too. Nice score!

[snelson903]

thanks magnasonic and hi volt ,im going to make a avitar i think there call too,cant think of one , i like that dog he's funny hi volt is he yours,or just find a picture ?

[Reece]

That set is in great condition for its age, good find!

[DavGoodlin]

Nice, I like those copper plated chassis.

Looks like it has UH&F, not useful but an extra nice option for those years!

[snelson903]

i like chassie's to that have copper plating , found a old late 40's ociliscope awile back rca had 3'' screan it had that copper plating on the chassie, that was missing alot of parts , i bought a large varible trans. off ebay for 30 bucks 0- 300 volt, and i had transformer out vary large roof air system 3 phase they had two of mutlitap transformer on it they had a output of 1200watts i put both in that scope encloser with extra outlets on the face and some more options mad varic isoltion transformer all in one its range 0- 300 variac total isolated good for at lease 1000, watt plus . maybe ill up load a picture of it

[snelson903]

my homemade variac/isolation trans

[hi_volt]

i like that dog he's funny hi volt is he yours,or just find a picture ?

Nope, not my dog. Just a cool picture I happened to stumble upon a while back. The caption read something like stoner dog is watching you. It just struck me as very funny and cool.