The vacuum cleaner would make our Sylvania Superset with ultrasonic remote change channels.

Sandy, That is indeed soiled state:yes:, 1972 and not the first SS Motorola color either, similar to my TS-938 in #5 of this thread http://videokarma.org/showthread.php?t=257310

Nice Set Technicolor - that is a fine addition to your museum of USA's best TVs!

an update
 

Well, all good things come to an end. The set took a powder on sunday morning.

Fortunately for me, a vk member really wanted that set and i was able to make a trade for the roundie picture tube i need bad.

He's got a lot more skills than i do, (doesn;t everybody) so that set is going for a full resto.

Well Joe, a lot of credit still goes to you for saving that set and passing it on to someone else who'll restore it.

Those sets used modular components that were intendend to be plug in-out for replacement. They were made in Japan. I don't think the 71-72's were as much of a problem, but I remember by 73 there were some real quality issues with them. I remember my other grandparents had a 73 and it had a lot of trouble. My grandfather worked on it several times, usually for free because he felt bad about it. He always blamed the "boards from Japan."

BTW: I just found out that Zenith tried to buy Quasar from Motorola. They couldn't come to terms, and Zenith later sued Moto to try to stop the sale to Matsushita. I just ordered a book that details it and I'll read more when it gets here.

[QUOTE=technicolor;3071209]Well, all good things come to an end. The set took a powder on sunday morning.
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What happened to it?

[QUOTE=Dreamsbeard;3071214]The buyer has informed me that the motorolas didn't have the high quaility caps that zenith did. The seller has now confirmed that the set hadn't been touched in years. ANd was finally fired up this week. So apparently, it had one last gasp of breath in it, plugged it in on sunday morning and it started shutting off after a minute or two. My guess is caps.

But i'm not complaining, sure was cheaper than a what a roundie crt is going for these days.

I get the crt i need, and a buyer who has been looking for one of these sets for awhile and who has the skills to repair it finally get;s the set he is looking for.