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Old 07-27-2014, 10:11 AM
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It maybe a "Arkay"color kit!, I have a Arkay B&W 19"TV kit built in 1964'
That I'm building from scratch I have the heater circuit done
And trying to find a isolation transformer before I complete it safely
Since it's series string 16 tube HOT CHASSIS!,I need one to complete
It!
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Old 07-27-2014, 12:46 PM
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A brewsky fridge right next to a bunch of TV sets, hog heaven for many guys. No giant flat panel for the big game, just fire up a bunch of smaller sets as a quick and dirty solution.
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Old 07-27-2014, 01:00 PM
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Nah. If I decide to restore it and keep it, I'll build my own custom cabinet for it. I'm not the best woodworker, but I DO know where there's an empty KCS47 cabinet I can get my hands on.....hm.....
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Old 07-27-2014, 01:08 PM
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i like it all.
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Old 07-27-2014, 02:19 PM
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You could always turn it into a built into the wall set.
Thinkin' about that the other day. In the early '60s when I was a kid the neighbors on either side of us and some other friends had their TVs flush mounted into the wall. One used a closet, another stuck into an adjacent room and another the chassis protruded into the garage. Not the best conditions considering the temp swings we get.
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Old 07-27-2014, 04:16 PM
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I can't find a part number on it ANYwhere. But here's some more pics.....
The pin transformer looks RCA but the part # isnt there style of either part # or drawing #. No EIA number on it either.
The date code is 23rd week 1971. It sure as hell is well built but
it may remain a mystery.

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Old 07-27-2014, 07:04 PM
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Heh

My whole basement has purple walls. I keep all of my television madness to one room. And right now, the sucker is PACKED, much beyond my comfort level.

I put that old kitchen rug on top the Zenith roundie so the cats wouldn't try to jump on it and slide off and use claws to try to gain traction, but now it's their favorite place to sleep. Oh well.

And yes, that's only one angle
Now that is cool.
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Old 07-27-2014, 07:23 PM
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Made some room, sold the Curtis Mathis console stereo on CL this afternoon. Nice little profit. I'm finding that tube record players of any style in working order move pretty fast on CL....
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Old 07-27-2014, 07:40 PM
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With that said, the best potential clue may lie in who built the printed circuit boards.
After re-reading your post, I looked closer at the circuit boards.

The boards are VERY clearly marked with each capacitor value, and labeled with the banded side. Definitely a kit TV. Maybe a Conar or something? Who knows.....
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Old 07-27-2014, 07:55 PM
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One thing I did notice on power up was that the 6GF7 wasn't lighting up at all. Tests good on the tester too. Kind of flying blind in doing any kind of restoration on this set without a schematic, and I'm not even 100% sure the sucker ever totally worked....which is the problem with kit electronics.

Tubes are almost all RCA with the newer logo. UHF tuner is stamped MEXICO 0969.

Hm.
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Old 07-27-2014, 08:20 PM
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No PC board part numbers silk screened on the printed circuit boards? That would have been my hope of identifying the ancestry of the design. It smells like a low-volume training school kit, but I wouldn't have guessed they would go so far to make an unlabeled knock off of a commercial color chassis, and even less that they would design one themselves. That's a huge job.

One correspondence school (the name will come to me) used an unbranded (at least in their magazine ads) Heathkit, and I think later an unbranded Zenith/Heathkit that was less soldering and more snap-together.
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Old 07-28-2014, 12:53 AM
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COOL! I sure hope you get that set figured out. I love to tackle a mystery like that. It sure does look like some sort of training chassis . I wonder if it would do any good to browse some 60s/early 70s electronics magazines to see if a picture of that chassis shows up in the advertising for any of the technical schools of the day. Although it seems very unlikely, my thoughts keep wandering back to the idea of a homebrew set designed and built by some meticulous engineer.....Just for fun, of course.
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Old 07-28-2014, 09:35 AM
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Presumably the fasteners are all machine screws/nuts rather than rivets, right?
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Old 07-28-2014, 10:24 AM
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Correct....the boards are all screwed into place.
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