Man that philco set rocks! I love that cabinet. I have a similar Philco roundie, but I think is from 68. Unfortunately, it has the cheesy pressed board laminted cabinet.

Picture on yours is really great. I suppose that set saw JR back in his prime-time slot on Friday nights.

Yeah, wasn't Philco the last to market a roundie, as a "loss-leader" in '68-69 ? Some poor purchasing agent musta goofed-it's ALWAYS purchasing's fault-& they had a bunch of roundie tubes to eat up. -Sandy G.

Thanks guys. Sandy G do you have a picture of your zenith on ak? Also I would like to see charlies philco .This set looks like a philco design. Cool chassis is the name philco put on it. Although the basic circuits are close to the rca design. 6BL8,6KD6, 6LU8 tubes were in motorola sets and other brands. Someone on ak must have a roundie with AFT. Sets had AFT in 65 Please correct me if I am wrong. Yup, old people like wood cabinets and I own alot of them. But I do want a flat monitor for my computer. 35 inch would work. :)

Naww, man, I don't have a pic of my roundie. It's a '65 Zenith, in a fake-wood metal cabinet. I'm missing the VHF tuning knob-have the fine tuning knob, missing the channel-changer. Also, I took the back off, & the 1V2 tube was broken, took it out, & the socket crumbled when I did. Those puppies musta got some kind of hot ! As I really know little about working on these things, I figured the best thing to do was put the back on & leave it alone, which I did. -Sandy G.

Roundscreen,

My Philco is about halfway down this page...

http://65.219.61.150/forums/showthread.php?t=13524

Those sets are gourgeous.
The "bad" teacher from The Politehnical Univertsity don't want to sell me a Jappanesee roundie (21" RCA picture tube).

Telecolor, keep your eye on that Japanese set! Don't let it ever get trashed!

Philco was one of the last makers of roundies, but it looks like Magnavox has the honors of the very last, in 1970.

Well, he dosen't intents to throu them, he wants to put the sets in the "Politehnical" Museum; the big difference betwen he and me is taht he dosen't wants to repair the sets, because is "too hard"-I'll do enething to see those sets working again, or, unless one of it.

I went to charlies thread today. Nice motorola set . I have never seen one like that. wow. Any hoo I took a look at his philco. The way he described the tuning eye was, The kind in dyanco tuner. Hot dam i know i have old fm tuners. Now I am down in the cellar tearing it apart and late for work. Yup found one in leak fm tuner. looks from the late 50s. I got it when i was in fla 10 years ago. water damage. Again this philco is so cool. {Thanks TIM and Charlie to.} I will find a door for it. make one if i have to. Put in a picture of the sams too.

That's a hybrid set, ain't that so? It have one of those push buttons tv tuners?

I really do like this set-Philco may not have had much life left in it but they did okay. Those type of tuning indicators are pretty cool; I'm not even sure what I ever saw (in person) that used them. I did have an FM tuner years back with an "exclamation point" tube. Philco-Ford was big on green dials, starting maybe a little after this one was made and continuing into the 70s. Some friends of ours had a solid state Philco-Ford console that was probably their first all transistor color line. It had the same green dials as the great late 60s P-F console I had.

Here is a picture of the tuning eye tube. 6HU6 or EM87. This is the first tv I have seen this tube in it.

Looks almost like my EM 84.