A new Emerson roundie

[yrly]

Tim, terrible shame you did not finish the job up. I would give it the go if I did not have so many darn Masco amps sitting in the workpile in the basement. I sort of lost ambition after doing one, then one needed a cap after I replaced the output tranny and the cap was bolted to the chassis, I got irritated and gave up. Then I started piling my stockpile of test equipment around it, fixed an old tube CB radio, then bought that Pioneer 1000TW that will need a new set of outputs on one side as it turns out. Have not done any TV work since I restored my circa 1971 B&W 16 inch Zenith, probably one of the last "Handcrafted" Zeniths, had almost all the original tubes, many of which surprisingly tested good despite its age and the surprising amount of use it saw. I eventually plan to give it a good once over and replace the weaker tubes with NOS ones from my stash, but many of the tubes need to be tested on my Dynamic 85 which is a pain to use. You are lucky you did not pick that one up at Amvets, I thought it was going to be useful after reading the book there at the store and seeing it tested everything under the sun, even Nuvistors and other oddities including odd stuff like those Pentagrid converter tubes used in the Zenith Transoceanic radios, except for the slight problem that it uses symbols like stars, circles, squares, pink hearts, blue diamonds and purple horseshoes (OK, so I made the last three up ). Takes forever to test tubes that way, though it seems simple at a glance it gets really frustrating really quickly. If I could somehow find the room though I would gladly bring the old Emerson back to the living world.

[smoker76]

Thanks

[Kamakiri]

PM me if I don't put something up tomorrow, I think I still have the pics at work.

[roundscreen]

Here is a picture of the emerson in question.
Tim did a real nice job on the glass and he cleaned out the chassis.
I did the chassis repairs and This set works vary well.
btw- I found a back for it too
Ed

[smoker76]

I bet that is a rare one. Looks great!

[jpdylon]

That's a way cool roundie. I've never seen an emerson like that before. Definitely an RCA clone.

[Kamakiri]

Many were. I can grab just about all of them from the first year from an old stored archive.

[roundscreen]

Here are some screen shots of the emerson. As you can see I have more work to do. The b + filters are on the way out and the crt needs a good alignment. The crt alignment went out when I moved it.
Thank you for the info on it. I was not sure what year it was made.
I have a dumont and the chassis looks the same as the emerson.
This is a good looking emerson and the wood around the bezel is awesome.
Ed

[Kamakiri]

Fourteen years later, things have come full circle, and she's back at my house. I've grown in my skill sets by many orders of magnitude since I originally rescued her, and now I can continue with a full recap where Ed left off

[hi_volt]

Man.....this is an **old** thread...

Nice looking set.

[Carmine]

Holy ancient thread Batman! I just got an email telling me it was updated. I think some of the members weren't born when this began.

Good on you Tim for saving it (again).

[DavGoodlin]

Originally Posted by Kamakiri

Fourteen years later, things have come full circle, and she's back at my house. I've grown in my skill sets by many orders of magnitude since I originally rescued her, and now I can continue with a full recap where Ed left off

Was it that NOS 1970 Dumont 25" color set from Bryan to me to you to Ed that Ed would rather work on to get his "Emerson certificate"? This has to be pretty easy to finish now that you work on justa bout anything

[Kamakiri]

I went to fix an issue with a CTC-36 last year. Opened it up, took one look, and put the cover back on

Oh HELL to the Naw naw naw naw naw! That Dumont was Ed's baby.

I'm moving more into color because I can fix 95% of black and white sets in my sleep. Gotta keep the challenge going, y'know? I got a '70 Zenith Color Commander going great with a VDR and half dozen caps, so for that I'll pat myself on the back.....but.....

[Electronic M]

Cool set. That is the first Emerson branded roundy I've seen.

Old is right. I was a radio collector that did not really give a damn about anything computerized much less the internet back then.

[SpaceAge]

I'm impressed your original picture uploads from 2003 have survived all these years.