Thats what we called it too. The rocket or Saturn V. I despised those sets.
Just like GE. BIG lots of talent but crappy TV's for the most
part.

73 Zeno:smoke:
LFOD !

Agree. Same tag style, same chassis numbering & same cage color as older
Maggy.

If it walks like a duck.....

73 Zeno:smoke:
LFOD !

IIRC, they had a very cheezy series-string pc main board/"chassis". :yuck:

Yup, and they were very tube hungry. Messy construction too.

Unless this particular TV was a Westinghouse-branded set, with the chassis, etc. made offshore by some fly-by-night electronics firm no one here ever heard of (!), I would be amazed. Westinghouse used to be a well-known American brand of TV and appliances, until this business of rebranding sets began. I was surprised to read in your post that the set's construction was "messy", and the sets ate tubes like crazy. Doesn't sound at all like the Westinghouse of the 1950s-'60s.

The only other thing I can come up with is that these TVs were not made by Westinghouse in the first place; that is, the sets were or may have been manufactured in the US by an unknown (or little-known) electronics firm which simply slapped the Westinghouse name and logo on the cabinets, and thought little or nothing of it (as I mentioned at the beginning of this post). There may have been a lot of this kind of monkey business going on by the 1960s, and it just kept getting worse and worse until it reached the point where no one knew whether a TV was an actual Westinghouse (for example) or an offshore-made piece of junk with a well-known name on the cabinet. I have a can opener I bought when I moved here in 1999, with the White-Westinghouse brand name on the cabinet, but I very, very seriously doubt it was actually made by Westinghouse (the company may have merged with another appliance maker by the late 1990s).

Old_coot88 made a comment that bears out the above, IMHO. If the construction was "cheezy", with the "chassis" being a flimsy PC board, and the company which actually made this TV was simply turning out these sets hand-over-fist, slapping the Westinghouse name and the "circle W" logo on the cabinets without thinking twice, well . . .

Two sets here under discussion First the roundy. It screams clone
built by Maggy. If part numbers are checked I bet most would be
in Maggy format ######-#

Second set is the rocket ship chassis. Rectangle jug, series string,
PCB. Distinct build style. Construction same as the 12' & 19" B&W of that time.
I have never seen any other brand like it at all. Thats out of tens of thousands I have been in. Unlike GE I never seen one rebadged. As far as build quality goes
I stand by that & others in my area agreed. BUT the cabinets were nice.
But a nice cabinet can be a BAD thing to a RTV tech...
Westinghouse had all it took, just like GE to build a world class set bunt didnt.
My brother worked for them in the Nuke division in control rod dept. He
had good words for them.
BTW the chassis number of the roundie is not in Sams either Maggy or W.

73 Zeno:smoke:
LFOD !

This is what suprised me. What a nice score.



I'd love to see how you have the raspberry pi's set up. Do you have any threads about it?

I've been thinking of doing this but with DVD players, but your method seems much more efficient.

I did a few videos on Youtube about it. Not sure what the rules are about posting that sort of stuff, but if you just search my name and raspberry pi it should show up.

If there's interest I can post a thread about it here.

I don't see why you couldn't post a link to your videos here.

Here's a playlist of the videos as it progressed. The end bit of the last video shows basically how it looks today (minus one additionally pi that replaced the security channel).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sBY...rS3CCmDdaZTP0F

There's a slight one starting at the sides, not real noticeable.

It is, in fact, a Magnavox U45 chassis, but Magnavox chassis' were not RCA clones. They may have used similar tube compliments, but much of the circuitry was dramatically different.