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09-13-2012, 06:54 AM
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23 in. Muntz tv score
 Last night I scored a 23 inch metal cabinet table set a friend of mine was cleaning out a attic and brought the set to me. I am thinking it is a 50s set pix will follow soon.. not sure on the condition of caps .. this makes my 3rd muntz set as soon as we get stuff situated we will post my collection on face book.. 
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09-13-2012, 12:45 PM
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CRT's were a weak point. Made by National Video.
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09-13-2012, 01:47 PM
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re muntz tv
The chasis is L-shaped mad man muntz had a way of desighning tvs hopefully pix will be up soon.. will keep you guys posted...
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09-13-2012, 04:36 PM
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I don't know if that model used that big knob cluster, that contained all the operating controls. Yes, we have no bananas!
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09-13-2012, 06:22 PM
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Geez... I haven't had a Muntz sine I was 19. Wish I could have one..................
I was thinking 1959'ish. Bill Cahill
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09-14-2012, 08:59 AM
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09-15-2012, 05:43 PM
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Nick, you obviously have too much free tiem.
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09-15-2012, 08:16 PM
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This Muntz TV is the first I've seen since the sixties, when one of my neighbors in my home town had a 21" console. They, like almost everyone else in the neighborhood at the time, also had a large chimney-mounted antenna (this was years before my neighborhood had cable).
Muntz TVs had almost bare-bones signal circuits (in addition to a minimalist design in general), which meant the sets did not work well in anything other than moderate to strong signal areas unless large, high-gain antennas were used. I grew up in a Cleveland suburb about 35 miles from the stations' transmitters, which meant that even for good black-and-white reception a good antenna was almost a must. Where I live today, a Muntz TV (in the old NTSC analog era) would need a very good outdoor antenna to get any kind of reception at all, as this area is perhaps 40 miles from the stations. I doubt if a Muntz set would work at all with a DTV converter box fed by an indoor antenna; if it did, the performance would probably be so-so or worse (read nonexistent). I tried antenna reception on my analog TVs when I moved here almost 13 years ago and could not even get the NBC affiliate in Cleveland; the other stations, except CBS channel 19, were fair to poor at best. Digital reception here on an antenna is much better, but I still do not get two stations that are on VHF DTV channels. BTW, I agree as far as the bananas are concerned; they are being used far too much in posts to this forum. Once in a while (for a touch of humor) is OK, but the extent to which they have appeared here lately, IMO, borders on the ridiculous.
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