Most of my sets are in my mother's basement, in another city. The sets I posted in the gallery (except two, I'll get to that later) are recent finds. I have a 2 bedroom apartment. The living room is large enough for my smaller sets (the Silvertone combo will stay in Warren until I can buy a house (fat chance of that). If I arrange things just right, I could have room for my entire collection, plus audio rack system (HH Scott tube amp).

Currently on the bench (table) is a 17" Sylvania 17P12 series.
After bringing it up, the filters and voltage doubler were warm. I replaced the evil selenium diodes before I did anything else. I'll order caps this week.

My after Thanksgiving set will be my RCA CTC-16. The cabinet isn't the greatest, but will still make a nice display when done and working. It has an original RCA CRT without cataracts and with good emission.

My goal is to get at least three sets done before the company Christmas party. I hope to display them there.

As far as sets I didn't post pics of go, I forgot to make a vidcap of the Sylvania. The cabinet is metal and the paint is in good shape. The name badge and tuner knob are gone, and the antenna assambly is broken beyond repair. I have a Philco 12" roundie which I bought at an antique flea market in Columbus. Some idiot broke the CRT. After the vendor figured out a TV with a broken CRT would not go for $45, they finally took 20 off the price and I gave it a new home. This will be started sometime next year. I need to find a 12LP4.

As far as the worst case senario goes (someone accusing me of running a TV shop out of my apartment, they better have evidence and be ready to show me. If they don't, they get nice bad publicity (I'll go to the media and my attorney). There are other ways around it, and hopefully nothing will happen.

You can count them up at my page:
http://www.geocities.com/wa2ise/radios/tv.html

:D

How did you do that?
 

wa2ise,

I just saw the TVs on your website. Very nice collection of older and vintage sets. However, I wonder--how on earth did you get the superimposed "NY" symbol (which is the logo of the New York Yankees) which you used to spell the name of the former mayor of New York City, Rudy Giuliani? I never saw anything like that before, and to be honest, I did a double take the first time I saw it. Very clever!

BTW, I recognize the set you put that logo under. It's an RCA ColorTrak 2000, if I remember correctly. Haven't seen one of those in years (in advertisements, etc.), and I've never seen one up close. Were they very popular or just a limited edition (like the RCA G-2000, of which only 2,000 production models were made)?

Speaking of ColorTrak, just what was the purpose of that system? Is it still being incorporated in the design of RCA tube TVs 19 inches and up? I have an XL-100 19-inch set, bought new in 1999, with automatic color, automatic contrast and color tracking, and black-stretch/black-lock circuits. Is the automatic contrast/color tracking system anything like ColorTrak? If not, what are the differences?


Thanks and 73,

Jeffhs,

The NY Yankees symbol is just that. I copied it off a baseball web page image file and pasted it into the picture with the RCA colortrack TV. That set was pretty common, RCA made many of them. It featured a comb filter. Also the chroma would track the contrast knob, and there was a room light photocell to sense ambient light and when you turned off the lights at night, the TV would lower the contrast and brightness automatically. This TV also has DC restoration. IIRC (I used to work at the RCA R&D lab in Princeton, these were all Colortrack features). I had to service this TV a few times, a few years ago a connector inside the tuner needed resoldering, and recently the flyback transformer lugs needed to be resoldered to the main circuit board. And I had to tweak a sound trap coil in the IF to get rid of sound/chroma subcarrier beat notes in the picture.

Zenith 1992 35 inch big screen console
 

I have a 1992 Zenith 35 inch Big Screen Console. It is in great working condition. Do you know how much I can sell it for?

An 2000 "Sony" Tinitron 21" (I forgot the model) - Made in Spain
An 1984 "Telecolor" 3007 22"
An 1971-73 "Nordemde" Color Prasident (needs restaorartion) 26"
An 1958 Soviet B&W "Rekord" (needs restaropration) 15"

Cutting back a little. I've got 4, a couple of which actually qualify as vintage, maybe:

- A Panasonic 19" tube set from 1971 that kinda works
- The marvelous 1983-vintage Zenith 19" System 3 with Space Command and Space Phone that I bought new off the showroom floor earlier this year
- a 38" RCA HD set with built-in DirecTV
- My trusty ol' 27" ProScan that I recently got back from a guy who bought it from the guy I originally sold it to a couple years ago.

The late '80s 20" Trinitron and 26" Colortrak console have found other homes.

Amending the list for 2005...

23 BW
9 color

Just like guns...More'n I need, but not as many as I want...<grin>-Sandy G., got 10 right here in this room....

All I have so far are two RCA 8TS30 clones, the Dewald BT100 and the Air King A1000. These I will be selling soon, less the CRTs, unless I get both sets fully restored.

I also have a genuine RCA 630TS made in 1946, and a Genuine RCA CTC9 "The Felton", made in 1959. I have my trusty 20" Sony Wega as my main TV.

Jonathan

1950 Zenith 12" porthole
Hoffman 10" table, blonde
RCA ctc-5 floor console
RCA ctc-10, table model metal cabinet
RCA ctc-10 console w/remote
Zenith 19" porthole floor model (a beauty)
RCA ctc-16 console, 65 or 66?
Packard Bell 10"
1966 Portacolor, first model

OK, I guess I may as well check in on this thread. I never wrote them all down before and I have surprised myself. It is amazing how it grows a little at a time. Here goes...

Admiral 17T11 (Chinese Grill)
Admiral 19A11
Admiral 20A1 (Bakelite Consolette)
Admiral 30B1 (Wood Consolette)
Andrea T-VK12 (2 different Cabinet Styles)
Andrea CO-VK12 Console, Radio, Phono
Bendix 235M1U (2)
Crosley 307TA (630 clone)
Crosley 9-419M
Crosley 9-425 Portable
Dumont RA-102B1 "Clifton"
Dumont RA-103 "Chatham"
Dumont RA-103 "Meadowbrook"
Dumont RA-103 "Savoy"
Dumont RA-105 "Colony" (with radio, phono)
Fada 799 (630 Clone)
Garod 1042G
GE 10T6 Locomotive
GE 12T3
Hallicrafters T-54
Hallicrafters T505
Hallicrafters 514 Portable
Motorola VT-71 (3)
Motorola 7-VT5R Portable
Motorola 9-L-1
Motorola 9-T-1
National TV-7W
Philco 48-1000 (2) (One with emblem and one without)
Philco 49-1240
Philco 48-2500 Mirror in Lid
Philco 50-T1403
Philco Predicta "Holiday" (3) (Mahogany, Blonde, UHF)
Philco Predicta "Siesta"
Philco Predicta "Pedestal" (3) (Mahogany, Blonde, UHF)
Philco Predicta "Tandem" (2) (One of each model)
Philco Predicta "Continental"
Pilot TV-37
Pilot TV-37U with case
Raytheon M1106
Raytheon Belmont 10DX22 (Swing out CRT)
RCA 621TS
RCA 630TS
RCA 8TS30 (3) (bought 1, came with 2 spares)
RCA 8-PT-7010 portable
RCA 8-T-241
RCA 9-T-246 (2) (1 with stand)
Sentinel 400TV Portable
Sparton 4900 Mirror in lid with Radio, Phono
Sparton 4940 Mirror in lid
Stromberg Carlson TC-10 "Manhattan"
Sylvania 376M Halolight
Westinghouse H-605T12 Shutter Porthole
Zenith G2350RZ 12" "Saratoga" Porthole
Zenith H2437R 16" "Irving" Porthole (With Lazy-Bones remote)


GE Portacolor
Motorola 21" Early Round Color
Motorola 21" Late Round Color
RCA CTC-5 "Dartmouth"
RCA CTC-7 "Abington"
RCA CT-100 (Good CRT)
Sony KV2501 25" Profeel
Zenith 21T2860 Round Color

Here is my list, didn't realize I had so many, One of these days I will get a Web page going.

1950s B&W sets

13" GE Table Top (metal cabinet)
17" RCA console (nice finish)
17" Philco (combo)
17" Philco table top
21" Philco
21" Fada
21" Emerson
21" Zenith Space Command
21" RCA
21" GE
27" Philco

1960s B&W

9" Magnavox (portable)
9" Admiral (portable)
12" Philco (portable)
19" Philco (table top)
19" Zenith (table top)
19" Magnavox (table top)
23" Magnavox
23" Admiral
23" Motorola (table top)
23" Motorola
23" Philco (2 consols)
23" Zenith (3 consols)

1960s Color Sets

11" Portacolor sets (4 of them)
13" Sears (hybrid)
21" Sears/Silvertone
21" RCA CTC 16
21" Philco
21" GE (cabnet only) with new set inside
25" Philco
25" RCA
25" RCA
25" RCA CTC31
25" Zenith

1970s B&W

23" Solid State Motorola consol (may be late 60's)
23" Zenith 1978 (I think it was one of the last B&W consols)

1970s color sets

19" GE table top (1970)
23" GE consol (hybrid)
23" Zenith Chroma Color II
23" Zenith Chroma Color II
25" Zenith System 3
25" Curtis Mathis 1977

1980s & 90s

13" GE
13" Magnavox
19" Emerson
19" Magnavox (2 of them)
27" Magnavox

2000 +

27" Symphonic (cheap small speakers got replaced with better speakers)
31" 4x3 Sanyo HDTV

working sets b&w:
1957 philco , metal cabinet
1959 setchell-carlson console
1959 olympic console (AMradio+record player)
1959 magnavox console (AM/FM radio+record player)
1959 magnavox console (AM/FMradio+record player)
1961 zenith console
1963 airline console (record player)
1967 magnavox portable
1968 emerson portable
1970 zenith , metal cabinet
1970 rca portable
1974 ge portable, hybrid

working sets rectangular color:
1967 zenith console
1968 panasonic
1972 ge portacolor

non-working sets b&w:
1955 westinghouse , metal cabinet
1956 bendix
1957 emerson console
1958 hoffman

sets junked for parts (I still have most of them):
1949 admiral
1965 magnavox round color console (AM/FMradio(solid state)+record player)

16 b&w, 3 color, 19 complete sets, 21 if you count the parted-out ones
not nearly enough, I should at least have one working color roundie,and one with a remote, and a working b&w set from the 40's or early 50's, and a set from the 50's with uhf, I need more tv's, a lot more tv's.

HAVE SEVERAL OLD COLOR & b&w
 

Have three old color sets: RCA CTC-5 and CTC-10, and a HEATHKIT early American cabinet 25 INCH console that I built from 1975 I believe it is; also have a Motorola 7-inch suitcase tv and a GE model 801 console from 1948? with radio.

wow,you guys are packin! i try to collect all kinds of vintage stuff,so in our 2 bedroom townhouse there's not much room for big stuff like TV sets and the like,but here's what i got: a 20 inch 96(?) zenith with built in vcr in the living room(on top of the magnavox till it gets fixed,then it'll see daily duty in the bedroom and the magnavox will be the living room set!),roommate's 19 inch zenith in the bedroom and my 1954 20 inch magnavox and 60s RCA Victrola Hi-fi in the living room...hope dave can fix them!!!
frank

At my high point; circa 1988, I had around 275 sets in my collection. Categorized as 80% early postwar 7, 10, 12, 16, & 19 inch round-tube B&W, 10% early color (15", 19" CBS tube, and 21AXP22 varieties). 10% "other". Now I have fewer than a dozen TV sets, but also other non-TV-related collections PLUS a girlfriend with a horse... That costs more to keep up than a TV collection though... Shoulda kept it as it was :nutz: .........No, I'm happier now!

The bulk of my collection is still together, divided mainly between two other SoCal collectors.

Charles

3 50s early color roundies
2 12" early 70s Sony Trintron
2 9" early 70s Sony Trintron
1 50s GE portable (B/W)
1 Panasonic 70s 9" portable (B/W)
1 USA made Quasar 9" color 80s in white w/ space age Base
1 13" color Zenith from 1979(looks older from early 70s) and was cheap & Zenith!
1 17" 70s Trinitron (was bigger screen and cheap, so got it.)

I used to have more early B/W sets that worked, but no one wanted to watch them in my house since B/W- --pretty much gave them away. The B/W ones I have now just watch the daily news or blogs on them to keep active. I'm done collecting TVs as not allowed anymore...


This is what wifee will do if I bring another TV home-NO MATTER how nice!
:bash:


My relatives & kids
:twak:

any more honestly, they would be gathering dust, tight on space too, those roundies take a lot of room.

I was going to ask if any of you guys are married. Now I know at least one is!

Funny you mention this... because many of us TV nuts (myself included) are either single or divorced! :D

My wife never misses an opportunity to remind me that she must be one of the most tolerant people in the world!

How many sets do I have? I dunno, I can only count up to 20 (21 if I'm taking a bath!)

--Dave

Here is my list:

1940s B&W sets

- Motorola,VT-71, 7"
- Emerson,610, 7"

1950s B&W sets

- Philips,TD1410U, 14"
- Saba, Schauinsland WII, 14"
- Sachsenwerk, Rembrandt FE852E, 12" *
- Grundig, Zauberspiegel, Type 349, 21"

1950s Color Set

- RCA, RCA 21-CT-7855U (CTC5E), 21"

1960s rectangular color sets

- GE, Portacolor, M21THW-1, 11"
- GE, Portacolor from the end tail of the 1960s, 11"
- Telefunken, PALcolor 708 T, 25"
- Saba,Schauinsland T 2000 color, 25"
- Telefunken, PALcromat 728 T, 25"
- Grundig, T1110 color, 25" *

1970s rectangular color sets

- Metz, Capri Color 6285, 26"
- Telefunken, PALcolor 614, 14"
- Graetz, Faehnrich 1223, 20"
- Grundig, Super Color 1615, 16"

Self made

- 32-line NBTV monitor with scanning disk

* not in full working condition.

Just sold because of getting space for new sets:

- Graetz, Faehnrich 1223, 20"
- Telefunken, PALcolor 708 T, 25"
- Telefunken, PALcolor 740 T, 26"

I am married. I have two children. They are currently counting my collection and know better than me, how many sets are in our house. Since a collector offered me thousands of Euro for one of the German color sets, my wife is keeping space on the attic for opportunities of getting rare sets.

On Dec. 6th I had my first exhibition. Here are some photos:


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Super cool! thanks for the photos!

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That was first time I've seen some of those old German sets, those are some nice looking TVs.

I decided to do this again when I saw this come up, as I got quite a few new sets, (many of them from people here.)

b/w - working
48 Motorola 7" (electrostatic)
57 Philco
59 Stechell Carlson (console)
59 Olympic (console - AMradio + phono)
59 Magnavox (console AM/FM radio + phono)
59 Magnavox (console AM/FM radio + phono)
61 Zenith (console)
63 Airline (console - phono)
67 Magnavox (portable)
68 Emerson (portable)
70 RCA (portable)
70 Zenith
74 GE (portable / hybrid)

color (round) - working
63 Philco (console - AM/FMradio + phono)

color (rectangular) - working
67 Zenith 25" (console)
68 Zenith 21"
69 GE portacolor
72 GE portacolor
83 Zenith 25" (ss / space command)

b/w (not-working)
55 Westinghouse (console)
56 Bendix
57 Emerson (console)
58 RCA (console / remote)
58 Hoffman

parts sets (with no more cabinets)
49 Admiral 10" b/w
65 Magnavox (round color / console / Astrosonic ss radio)
78 RCA (ctc-92 ss color console 25")

parts sets (cabinet only)
48 Motorola (8" suitcase)

24 sets, 28 counting parts sets

2 ctc 9-s
1 zenith 29jc20 (1st re-entry model in 1962)
1 maggy 1963 roundy working
1 rca ctc 5 wingate, being restore
1 1963 cm roundy, home entertainment system

I have 22 TVs right now.

B&W:
1960 RCA
1965 GE
1965/66 Magnavox
1968 Panasonic
196? Milovac
1972 Zenith 4 tube hybrid
1974 RCA with remote
1976 Zenith
1978 RCA
1982 Zenith with Digital Tuning

Color:
1968 GE Portacolor with clock
1970 Sony KV-1212
1972 Sears 9" portable
1976 Sears
1976 GE Portacolor
1977 GE with modular chassis
1978 Sharp
1981 RCA
1985 Magnavox
1990 Sears
1996 GE
1997 GE 27" (daily watcher)

That is my goal as well, as many TVs as possible :D I bought 3 8 output distribution amplifier and have all of them connected through a DVD/VHS combo unit. Pretty cool to watch them all at once, but the room gets very hot fast :tongue:

I have 52+ tvs mostly 1940s 10-12 inch TVs
Partial List

3 1940s projection sets 1 tall RCA 1 wide Philco? 1 table top Scott
2 mirror in the lid Spartan and Steward Warner
1 National
2 Hallicrafters
1 Meck
1 Dumont doghouse
RCA 621 , 630, 721 other metal cabinet rca
Philco 1000, 1001, 7 inch philco, 12" philco with tall legs
2 7 inch consoles Automatic and Majestic
2 7 inch automatics tabletops, one with built in bubble
2 Temples with built in bubble
1 10 inch Chinese cabinet with doors
3 teletones 1 leatherette
1 simulated snake skin 7 inch portable
1 pilot
1 Predicta
1 Dewald
1 Raytheon console with 12 inch round screen
1 7 " motorola bakelitte
1 7" Motorola wood
1 10" motorola console
1 10" emerson console
1 10" admiral wood
1 10" admiral bakelitte
2 Crosleys 7" and 10"
1 Teleking
1 GE locomotive
1 ECKO English TV

How many sets? I have no idea. I lost track 6 years ago. :) I think it's in excess of 200 - 300 or so give or take a few dozen now. My wife claims (she's rarely wrong about most common sense things) that I'll probably never spend time with all of them. I remind her that collecting TV's is not common sense for most people and while I may never be able to spent time with all of them - I'll be thinking about all of them. :banana: Of course, I let her win the argument then give her some money to buy something for herself. :smlove: This usually works and leaves me to practice my eccentric art. :yes: Some of the more memorable sets include an RCA CT-100, CTC-4, CTC-9, CTC-11, CTC-12 color sets, including an early RCA roundie stereo console. Early B&W projection sets, and several Dumonts (including one that uses a CBS color wheel adaptor). I'm also fascinated by my early Japanese colors including a vintage Toshiba with the strange CRT (21FB gun on a japanese glass bottle). I have an Indextron and (just tonight) acquired the infamous KV-3000R. I wish I could get a Chromatron for my collection - now that would be cool...!

Then, of course, did I forget to mention, there's the antique audio and radio collections...mostly RCA, Zenith, Philco, Silvertone, Scott Radio, Marantz, and Grundig. Then there's the communications receivers and transmitters (both civilian and military) with Collins, Hallicrafters, Hammarlund, Scott, Heathkit, Yaesu, Drake, etc.

Ha...even my daily ride is almost on the endangered list...just a couple of years to go before my caddidily hopper gets historic vehicle plates! :zoom:

:nutz: Tom, your truck might qualify for HV plates in a couple years, but my truck qualifies for the DRIVE ALONE IN CARPOOL sticker in June :rockon:

And doesn't your truck still run on that crap they call "gasoline" that so many suckers still think they have to use??? :nono:

Main thing of this post: Congratulations on the KV-3000!!!!! I am VERY pleased that you got it, as I know it will be preserved in good hands.. (I sent you an eMail on this)...

Charles

How many? I don't know for sure, but probably 200+. Many Predictas-est. 50. Dozens of early b/w. Early color, including the CBS 1954 205 set, many RCA and Zenith early color. One odd set is the Sony "Elvis" set whereby one cabinet houses 3 B/W solid-state 12" sets. I'm started a type of inventory whereby I place the Sam's (or other service info) into a 3 ring notebook binder. Besides helping keep track of what I have, the service information for each set is ready at hand. Just had a 60' X 30' metal bldg. built just for the TV and radio collection-storage, workbench, and display. The bldg. features a floored loft-with an electro-mechanical hoist-for additional storage space.

Well I'm a little bit behind you guys, since I recently moved from CA to AR. and was forced to sell quite a few sets. Here's what I've accumulated in the past 6 wks.
Bendix 17" b/w table model (1952)
RCA-Victor New Vista model KCS136 21" b/w console (1961)
Sony 13" Triniton (1970)
Magnavox 25" color SS console (1985)

My current list.

WORKING BW:

Andrea 16"
Admiral 17" metal
RCA Victor 14" metal
Sylvania 17" metal
Philco 12" tabletop
Hallicrafters 820 (has vertical problem).

BW in progress:

RCA Victor 21" with metal CRT.
RCA 8' metal red (once working, will never do another one)
Zenith 17" bugeye (need print)
Philco 21" blonde (glass CRT)

Unrestored BW:

RCA Victor 16" metal
RCA Victor 16" wood (cabinet is in horrible shape)
RCA Victor 21" VHF only
Philco 17" swivel consolette
Philco 14" metal (soft started, no print)
Motorola 17" metal
Meteor 17" metal
Stewart-Warner 21" with 21AP4
GE 810
GE 9" portable
Zenith 21" metal tabletop (not at current location)
12" Stewart-Warner tabletop
Silvertone 17" fiberglass Suburbanite

9 color.

WORKING:
Zenith 23" rectangular combo (daily Archie watcher)
RCA CTC-16

UNRESTORED:

Zenith 23" space command (soft started, CRT good)
Silvertone round combo (works but needs recapped)
Zenith round (see Silvertone)
Sylvania round (I'm not getting redundant here)
Admiral 23" (need 25XP22 CRT, restored last year)
RCA 17" portable (the one where half the resistors on the sweep board changed value)
RCA CTC-38 (may need CRT)

Hoping to score more. The CTC 38 is not pictured on my site since I can't get to it to get a pic. It uses the modern RCA logo.

I'm not worthy ! I'm not worthy ! <grin>-Sandy G.

I have only one other TV here besides my daily watcher RCA CTC185. The other set is a ten-year-old Zenith SMS1917SG Sentry 2 19" in my bedroom, which will replace the RCA if anything happens to the latter. The Zenith works amazingly well for having ten years on it; original CRT and a great picture on cable here in my small town. In fact, I think my Zenith set has a better picture than the RCA. I've been tempted more than once to put the Zenith in the living room and use the CTC185 RCA as the standby set, but the RCA has such a good picture in its own right I can't bring myself to do it just yet. I think I'll wait until the RCA dies before I do that. However, the RCA has worked like a champ the last six years and continues to do so, so I may be waiting a little while yet before putting the Sentry 2 into daily watcher service again (that set was my daily watcher for four years in the mid-'90s--1995 to 1999; it worked well then and still does to this day--that's Zenith quality for you).

BTW, to Truetone36, I know the feeling of having to leave old TVs behind when moving. In the late '60s to 1972 I had a nice collection of old sets in the basement of my former home, then I moved (the first time) and had to get rid of all but three of them. Six years ago I moved again, within the same area (from a suburb of Cleveland to a village about ten miles outside the metropolitan area), this time to a small apartment (where I live now). No room for old TVs here, but I do have a small collection of vintage tube and transistor radios.

When I see an old TV set on the curb here I am tempted to grab it (if it's a portable--I saw a 1980s-vintage RCA 12" b&w portable not far from my apartment about three years ago), but then I remember the fact that there's just no room here for any more large sets. I like Zenith TVs and radios (I like the quality of the older ones, but cannot abide the Zenith-branded LGs), so maybe if I can find a small set of that make, say a 5" Zenith portable with AM/FM radio (on ebay, for instance), I might bid on it. I saw one of these on the bay last year and wish I'd have latched on to it, but there will be others, I'm sure. :yes:

I can now add to my list. I bought an old hi-fi console yesterday and when I went to pick it up last night, I saw that the guy had 2 old t.v.s in the garage. I asked about them, and he gave them to me!! I now have 2 WORKING CTC-5's, as well as the sets listed above.

You lucky dog !! <grin>-Sandy G.

Wow! Now, thats a great find! Have you seen what they've been going for lately?

Man! TWO CTC5's! And they both work? And he gave them to you? That's almost unheard of! That's one hell of a score!

Pictures! Let us see some pictures! :yes:

I'll post sime pictures when I get a digital camera, I haven't bought one yet. These two sets had been daily watchers until about 2 years ago. I was beginning to think that there weren't any good sets in this area, and then the CTC-5's popped up. That really got my blood flowing and now I'm very actively looking for more. I'm hoping to someday find a Dumont Royal Soveriegn 30" b/w console, in the meantime, there's no telling what goodies will turn up. People in this area for the most part, didn't throw large purchases they'd made like tv sets, mostly those sets ended up in basements and sheds. The really cool thing is that I'm the first one in this town that has ever shown interest in them.