1953 Arvin 8213 Restoration

[dieseljeep]

Originally Posted by Crist Rigott

Thanks. A good suggestion. I'll keep it in mind.

The Arvin set shown in entry number 23 from your earlier thread is a newer model using a 90 degree CRT. It also used a heater transformer and a voltage doubler. They also built that set for Sears.
The set shown in this thread is really impressive. Arvin engineer's must've thought, "We can build a set that is as good or better than the big guys."
They also built that model for Sears. It must've been their TOTL model that year. Those used either a 21AP4 or a glass 21ZP4.

[Crist Rigott]

Originally Posted by dieseljeep

The Arvin set shown in entry number 23 from your earlier thread is a newer model using a 90 degree CRT. It also used a heater transformer and a voltage doubler. They also built that set for Sears.
The set shown in this thread is really impressive. Arvin engineer's must've thought, "We can build a set that is as good or better than the big guys."
They also built that model for Sears. It must've been their TOTL model that year. Those used either a 21AP4 or a glass 21ZP4.

Thanks for that info.

[Crist Rigott]

Took the chassis to the car wash this evening. Now It's ready to be worked on.

[Crist Rigott]

One of the first things I'd thought I'd do was to see how much of the HV cage needs to be trimmed back away from the CRT. I made a HV cage from some cardboard. I then marked where it should go on the chassis and the mounted the chassis. I notched the corner to match the curvature of the CRT.





I then decided to give me about 1 inch clearance and cut the cardboard. It took me several tries to get the clearance I wanted.





I then transferred the cutout to the HV cage. The notch should work out well.



A good thing was that the chassis mounting holes matched the cabinet! I bolted the chassis in place when doing the HV cage notch it gave me the chance to see how well the controls would fit the front of the cabinet. The pencil box controls lined up very nice to the pencil box and the 2 main controls were just a hair high. I put on the Contrast and Volume knobs and they looked good and you couldn't even see they were slightly high.

[Notimetolooz]

So the only problem would be one extra control shaft in the pencil box.
I wonder how they made the "notch", penknife? Maybe the rodents did it.

[Crist Rigott]

Originally Posted by Notimetolooz

So the only problem would be one extra control shaft in the pencil box.
I wonder how they made the "notch", penknife? Maybe the rodents did it.

Yeah, one extra control.

I was thinking they they used a dull spoon!

[Kevin Kuehn]

Originally Posted by Crist Rigott

I was thinking they they used a dull spoon!

Looks like a fine tooth saw cut. Possibly a jewelers saw that came down from the top corners in an attempt to meet in the middle.